The ODM gear is such a hallmark of the show, and having it done justice in the form of a gameplay mechanic was thrilling to experience. I felt powerful and free, like I was actually living in the Attack on Titan universe. It feels so good to sling between buildings, nailing titans in the nape of their neck for the one-shot kill as you fly from objective to objective. I had a good time with Attack on Titan's traversal system. It takes some getting used to, and there is some nuance in learning when to deploy your anchors and when to use gas canisters to propel yourself forward or up. If you can get a titan down on the ground, or you've propelled yourself high enough, you can kill the monster for good by aiming for the nape of its neck. Attacking titans requires you lock onto one of the giant's limbs and use your ODM Gear to gain speed as you fly towards it-the faster you're moving, the greater the damage you'll do, and hopefully slice off its meaty leg or arm with one stroke.
You spend most of the game slinging through towns and forests like Spider-Man using Omni-Directional Mobility Gear, special machinery used to move through the air and scale heights quickly in order to attack titans. Now Playing: Attack on Titan - Video Review These are just as monotonous as the main missions, and after a while the campaign begins to feel like a parade of chores.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's The latter half of the game, which includes narrative content past the show's first season, is unfortunately padded out to add some length to the campaign, you are forced to complete dozens of small, formerly-optional side missions before you can advance the story. These range from simply hacking titans to bits, protecting a specific structure on the map, or escorting soldiers from point A to point B.
Each chapter is broken up into a handful of missions that set you down on a map with specific objectives.
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But although Attack on Titan painfully lacks combat variety and includes a host of technical disappointments, its use of Attack on Titan's strange world makes it a unique, and sometimes genuinely exhilarating, experience.Īttack on Titan recounts the events of the anime and then some-the story slips past the show's season one finale, telling tales from the ongoing manga series and foreshadowing the show's upcoming second season. Koei Tecmo's take, on the other hand, does a bit more with the Attack on Titan property it grafts the series' elements onto the musou genre, in which core gameplay is a series of isolated maps that must be cleared of enemies. There have been only a handful of video game adaptations, with varying success-the last one, Spike Chunsoft's Humanity in Chains which released in 2014, was an action game with an uninspired layout, a half-baked rehash of the main storyline with simple, dull gameplay. The gruesome, sometimes disturbing anime and manga series Attack on Titan has gained worldwide popularity since the comic's launch in 2009.
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