It’s the big mod release of the moment, and it’s stylish enough to be worth a post. Running off the Source engine, NeoTokyo is a class-based team-orientated shooter with one eye staring longingly at their Ghost in the Shell box-set and the other at their Akira deluxe edition. Which makes you hope they’ve shelved it together, otherwise they’re going to be going all googly-eyed. You can download it from a mass of mirrors and you’ll find its incredibly elegantly done trailer beneath the cut.
Though to be critical a little here – it’s elegantly done, but it tells us jack all about the game other than “we have more idea of style than the majority of mainstream PC developers”. While that’s a great thing to do, you really should say why someone should care about the game more than its production values. It took me a far too many clicks around their site to actually find any actual features of the game (Class-based high-tech abilities like active camoflage and alternate vision, XP-system, squad-management systems), y’know?
So… let’s do their job for them. Who’s played it? What do you make of it?
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Needs respawns as CS style did and you wait out the round is tad tedious.
Here’s my review: http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=106902&view=findpost&p=1715859
Sorry I’m too lazy to reformat it for the comments here but I suspect I’d hit the word limit in any case. It’s worth reading the entire thread for arguments on both sides of the fence.
Honestly, comparing this to Counter-Strike is not that clever. Counter Strike has quite a different scenario- they just similar aspects. They both have a a wait-till-you-die round. Amazing point. Hell, lets make it Battlefield 2 style, so whenever you die, you spawn right back, and who the hell cares that you just died right?
Oh damn, CS and NT both have guns. The difference is that NT uses a unique type of “ironsights” (that are similar to Farcry’s). CS Uses a regular crosshair in the middle of the screen. And oh yeah, they both have grenades (OH SHIT).
Overall, its their first release and it’s damn good. The learning curve is a little high (as you can see from people commenting here) but after you reach the top (in 1-2 days), you should be pretty good.
This game is obviously not made for the learning-impaired and/or autistic
it should be called weeaboo counterstrike. style does not make up for shit gameplay.
Every time I see someone mention “CS” in their comment makes me wonder why they are stealing our oxygen.
It’s more like Hostile Intent than Counter-Strike, but most people have probably never heard of the former.
My favorite FPS ever. The reason I call it my favorite fps is because I get bored of most fps games after an hour or two of playing, but this.. I can play it for many many hours in a row and it just doesn’t get boring.
I love that it’s based on teamplay and tactics.
I just tried this game and I didn’t like it mostly due to the community. They are very rude and began tking and harrassing me when I said I came from Dystopia. I’d like to try this mod but this has happened on many servers. Also why is it that everyone is so defensive about this mod? Any site i go to where someone critiques it they go into rage.