Granted, story has never been a big part of these types of shooters. Things aren’t well defined, depth is missing and the whole thing just isn’t very interesting. At least, that’s what Hard Reset Redux tries to convey with its brief, motion comic cutscenes and limited dialogue, which ended up being more difficult to follow along with or care about than I’d expected. It doesn’t take long before he’s engulfed in an all out battle against the machines, as well as in the middle of a shocking cover-up. In this downloadable affair, we take control of an agent named Fletcher, who works for a shady organization and is charged with policing robots. It’s just not DOOM, and doesn’t have the staying power or polish of its closest competitor. In fact, it’s quite solid and is definitely worth playing if you’re a fan of the shooters of yesteryear. Hard Reset Redux is not a bad game, though. After all, DOOM is on the minds of most of its target audience, and it’s going to be hard for a revamped version of a several year old game to really take time away from that behemoth, especially when said game didn’t exactly set the world on fire from the get go. It goes without saying, but the team at Flying Wild Hog chose an awful time to re-release Hard Reset in its improved and extended form. What’s lost in all of this, though, is that DOOM isn’t the only retro shooter to have released within the last month, as Flying Wild Hog has also returned with an updated take on one of its more popular titles: Hard Reset Redux. People can’t get enough of it, cannot stop talking about it, and have taken to message boards to praise the team behind this reimagined take on one of gaming’s most beloved classics. Now that DOOM has returned, old is new again, and the retro-inspired shooter is the talk of the industry.
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