Better Than Dead Is For Convincing Boomers Games Are Real Life

You can get Better Than Dead Here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2599690/Better_Than_Dead/ Check out our Dev Sponsor's game The Last Phoenix: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3299850/The_Last_Phoenix/ Join my discord (don't forget to drop a comment here too before you go!): https://discord.gg/CJZqUWvKfQ Support us on Patreon Or Get Your Own Sponsor Slot: https://www.patreon.com/c/BigRatHole ---- Better Than Dead is a live leak bodycam shooter about single handedly euthanising human traffickers and saving it's victims. It's a game made by Solo developer Monte Gallo, I see you and your hong kong cinema fetish bro. Your lavish attention to detail you sly dog. However, In it's current Early Access state I think it's earned its mixed review status. Like social media this game made me rage multiple times BUT I couldn't help coming back for more. Here's the loop: tiny 2 to 5 minute levels. Shoot the boss or extract the naked chick, get out the building. Die? Start again. Play faster for better ranks. Story: practically non-existent. The level itself tells the story. Like having unprotected sex at a swingers party there's plenty of spray and pray until you get to grips with abusing the aim assist buffs you can stack. The game warns you when you boot it up that this isn't a cover shooter and if you stand there trading shots you WILL die, and it's not kidding. Getting hit is an arcane mysterious luck roll which can be negatively impacted by shooting civilians or just not being very cool. Even accuracy is affected from shooting innocent people, so you have a natural incentive to check your targets. This is complicated by lobotimised NPCs. Civilians have the survival instinct of a rhoomba, and are just as likely to get stuck on something. They act like me when I enter a room and forget why I’m there. Injured enemies wave their arms and kick their legs on the ground like animatronic babies. Getting shot once makes you start staggering everywhere and leaning on the walls, if you were badly positioned this is probably game over for you, otherwise you can slowly recover from it. You can slide into bullet time that buffs your aim and accuracy, and is the best way to get through guys. Your character is adept at getting on their knees, and that's the best place to be when getting dirty work done. Little invisible buffs like this ease the fact that your view is coming from the characters chest, meaning your arms can move a lot before your body starts following, obscuring what you're shooting at. Graphically the results are kind of incredible, especially outdoors. The illusion falls over a bit more on interiors or if the NPCs do anything at all. Sometimes it felt like just dumb luck that I'd miss every shot and then get double tapped to death. It can be miserable starting over and over again when it doesn't really quite feel like your fault. A post launch update has cut the load time in half between respawning which is good though. There's one level where your infinite ammo gun runs out of bullets right near the end. I'm not sure if it's scripted to do that or what but it got me killed a dozen times i almost blacked out in rage and revived at a Pokemon center in real life. On the game over screen the audio is still cranking with the NPCs screaming and shooting your corpse, paired with this game over clack sound it's just auditory torture making dying a true punishment with no chance to chill out. Since thick CRT monitors aren't a thing these days i can't get away with punching the screen anymore so ive had to resolve to letting the rage defuse out of me like a heat core. Back in my day tech could take a punching! I can't remember the last time i got this tilted by a game. Despite that when i got to the two and three quarter hours end of the games playtime and rolled credits i was disappointed there wasn't more. After writing this review I actually went back and started playing from the start, and had a much smoother time. It's a simple game, but it can take a bit to learn how it wants you to play it. Buyer beware, I had fun.