These range from the traditional cyber-babes like the cool cyborg Loksenna and the Oriental geek-chic Nim Soo Sun through the beer-swilling Hell's Angel Beard, trucker Rex Hardy and surfer boy LA Jay, to weirder characters like the embryonic Foetoid and the genocidal computer HK-5. There are 15 characters to choose between, which, in the single player game, affects which voice sample set you'll hear when your character talks to you. The 'Abandoned Subway' level looks nothing like the 'Federal Bank Vault' level, and neither of those look like the 'Capsized Ship' level. Having said that there's no continuity between levels, each of the levels indivdually is really well designed, and each has its own atmosphere. Yeah, you've seen it all before, but it's such a joy throughout it doesn't require anything like a storyline to support it. As you progress through the level, you pass through restart points, where you will respawn if (or when!) you lose a life. Each level is standard blaster-fest fare: fly through blasting the robot baddies, collecting power-ups to help you, and picking up keys, shooting switches, and completing other tasks (activating detonators, remembering key code sequences) to gain access to later areas of the level. Once you start blasting away at those robotic guardians, any thought of storyline goes completely out the window. Tastyīut don't get me wrong that is not a bad thing.
The 'plot' of the story isn't important at all, and there isn't really any continuity between levels. And, as every self-respecting bounty hunter should, you get around on a hoverbike fitted with plenty of weapons and gizmos to help you collect the loot.īasically, this all amounts to a single-player mode in you progress through 16 levels, shooting at flying robots, tanks and missile silos, collecting weapon power-ups, gold bars and crystals. Playing as such a bounty hunter, you have to battle both the robot defences and other mercenaries whilst collecting valuables in various locations around the dead Earth. Having removed everything considered valuable, the Theocracy has left the Earth protected by robot defenders and moved on to other things.Įnter "every bounty hunter, mercenary, space pirate, and free-booting scum" to pick over the pieces that the Theocracy didn't want. A catastrophic physics experiment has left the Earth devoid of life, and the galactic Theocracy has declared the solar system Forsaken.
The story revolves around the Earth, circa 2113. But, like I said in my preview, what a clone! Nice In the same way that you don't go watch the new Arnie film expecting to be faced with a serious, in-depth study of the human condition, you don't pick up a copy of the latest first-person full-3D shoot-em-up and expect it to be anything other than a Descent clone. There really isn't a lot more to say about Forsaken.
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