Granted, it’s not the first third-person shooter to layer in powers and abilities on top of the regular gunning. That’s when the game started to grab my attention.įor a title that really played up its unique TV-style approach and highly polished production values, I found it amusing how Quantum Break’s shooting ultimately proved to be the hook for yours truly. Then the protagonist's temporal powers started to manifest. Traipsing through its early sections, I remember appreciating its ambition to tell a compelling story but feeling underwhelmed by its initial attempts at combat. This makes the timing for Quantum Break - pun so totally intended - quite curious indeed. Watch Video: Watch video: Quantum Break review | Technobubble It made me wonder if this is how people felt when Japanese RPGs started to dip in popularity and got supplanted by other genres. Even the new “ Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2,” whose predecessor I played to death for months and was one of the rare exceptions to that rule, didn’t provide me as much mileage as the original. Given a choice, I’m one of those guys who would actually pick a solid, story-driven shooter without online almost anytime over a multiplayer-only shooter without a campaign. “ Titanfall” rekindled the fire a bit but its lack of a campaign doused those flames real quick. A large part of it is the “been there, done that” vibe I mostly got when playing entries in the genre from recent years. Somewhere along the way, however, I started not to care as much about shooters. These include first-person titles such as Call of Duty and Halo as well as third-person shooters - my favorite shooting sub-genre - which included games like Mass Effect, Gears of War and Lost Planet 2 (yes, I actually liked Capcom’s Monster Hunter-style take on the shooting). I say this as someone who spent hours upon hours on various representations of the genre. It’s quite the fitting topic for a shooter to tackle because it’s starting to feel like a luxury the genre doesn’t have as much of lately. Follow Technobubble poobah Jason Hidalgo’s shenanigans on Twitter yes, time. Technobubble covers games, gadgets, technology and all things geek.
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