While headshots mostly still get the job done, shooting limbs of robots is oddly gratifying as well. Armed with heavy machine guns and missile launchers, they require a change in strategy to take down effectively. Larger mechs also appear in the game from time to time. Other than the usual grunt enemies, we also have robots who are not only harder to kill, they also self detonate if you get careless and do not finish them off properly. Rock, Paper, Scissors, Guns, Grenades, Lasers and Missiles! Even asteroids create an interesting arena where you have to weave in and out through the bedlam to fulfill your objectives. The Jackal missions always play up the sheer chaos of aerial combat, floating debris, tall obelisks and other ships.
The dogfighting is a welcome addition to the game, and for someone who never learnt how to appreciate air simulation games, it was an absolute blast. Named Jackals, these fighters allow you to engage in aerial combat with 30mm and 60mm mounted cannons as well as missiles. Narrow claustrophobic corridors surround you and make you reminisce of a certain ship named Nostromo, albeit not having shadows lunging at you from deep in the dark.Īnother set of missions that were memorable are the ones where you get to pilot a fighter jet in space. Once inside the ship, it’s a whole new ball game. You get to run along the hull of the ship, take down enemies and watch them drift into the vastness of the nothingness that is space. Well placed debris and rocks allow you to use your grappling hook to take cover and dodge enemy fire. Aside from the usual urban combat as you duck and dive between push carts and stairwells, you also get to shoot stuff up as you float aimlessly in the zero gravity of space. Is it still tourism if you wreck stuff everywhere you go?īeing set in space gives the game a whole variety of locations for violence to ensue, and the game does not disappoint. The game does, however, perform a decent job of ensuring that the crew onboard the Retribution have their own motivations and personalities, and it is very easy to start loving or hating them. No offense, but it is just not really scary to have him show up on your visor or monitor and hurl insults at you as you are rampaging through his forces. Sadly, he does not appear often enough to carry out most of his threats, usually televised through various channels of in-game media. Kotch, on the other hand, does his best to be menacing as he goads at your feeble attempts to sabotage his sinister plans. Most notable among the crew is Ethan, an all-action robot that just so happens to be equipped with the best dialogue in the game. As with all Call of Duty campaigns, things go horribly wrong real quick and it’s up to you and your crew aboard the aptly named battleship Retribution to make things right.
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