Vanquish Review
I have almost caught up on my gaming backlog form last year and I wanted to splay something different. I enjoyed the demo when I played it at E3 last year so I decided to rent Vanquish. I’m glad I rented it for a could reasons. First, it was really fun and different from most of the shooters I play. Also though it was short. I completed the campaign in under 6 hours. Each mission is broken into 10 or 15 minute segments that make it easy to play for a little while and then come back later. The game is non-stop action for the whole campaign though. You are pretty much always surrounded by tons of enemies.
The combat is fun because you can sit back in cover and snipe if you want or you can use jets in your suit to charge right up to an enemy and melee them. There are a nice mix of weapons as well. There are the standard assault rifle, machine gun, shotty, sniper and rocket launcher but there us also a lock-on laser and energy gun. Both of these are a blast to use as the can decimate a ton of small enemies at once. You get a constant stream weapons to pick up so you never really run low on ammo and can swap out guns regularly to try them all out.
The graphics and animations look great in Vanquish. I would slide around and melee guys just to see the different attacks that each weapon did. It was good all the other parts of the game were fun because the story was ridiculous. I never did figure out what was going on or why I was fighting but I did not really care. It was fun to use all weapons and suit’s slide to take out as many enemies as fast as I could.
Vanquish is one of those game that makes for a great weekend rental. It is fun, fast, nice to look at and short.
I'm an tech fan and avid gamer. Looking to have some fun and try new gadgets.