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orniletter on 17 March 2014
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Kresnik said:
orniletter said:

Sounds great ! Good to know that Studio Liverpool went out with a bang.

*twiddles thumbs while waiting for Kresnik*


AMG!  I'm up.

First, let me get it out of the way: On the whole, 2048 isn't as good as HD Fury.  However, it's still a bloody fantastic game and I wholeheartedly recommend you pick it up.

Reasons why it's worse:

- 30 FPS rather than 60 FPS.  It's not a massive dealbreaker, but it shows.

- No racebox.  Meaning you either play the campaign or online, you can't just do random races when you want.

However, everything else about it is fantastic.  Visuals are bloody gorgeous (I'm sure you've probably seen that by now).  There's tonnes of content for it - and you can download the whole of the HD Fury campaign to play on Vita, which is great.  It's got most of the modes in - my favourite (zones) makes a return; elimination races are back; time attack & speed lap are there and of course there's normal races.

Difficulty wise, I'd say it's slightly easier than HD Fury, but then the A+ challenges are easily as difficult as any phantom class races in HD Fury.

One thing I would note is that the design has changed every so slightly.  You're now made to think more tactically about weapons because you can either pick up defensive (i.e. shield; mines; leech beam) weapons or offensive (i.e. missile; rockets; quake) weapons.  And to accomodate this, the tracks are a bit wider than they were in HD Fury to accomodate more weapons play.

I would also add that the online campaign is an improvement over online play in HD Fury.  You basically have to go through a single-player esque campaign filling in nodes and doing objectives to complete it.  It's actually a fantastic way to incentivize you to play online as you're always progressing towards a goal.  I still return to the online pretty regularly on Vita.

But yeah.  Cannot recommend it enough, definitely one of my favourite games on Vita.  From one of my favourite videogame franchises.  From one of my favourite videogame developers.  Now you've made me sad.  RIP :'(

 

Thanks for the very elaborate answer. (And yes, I played the demo a bit, but it was too short to form my opinion....but it does look fantastic, especially in screenshots)

I´m far too unfamiliar with the series to know all the nuances, so it is good to hear impressions from someone who knows the ins and outs !

....oh well, the staff that was let go reformed as a new studio ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesprite) so the dream is not dead !

 

Edit: Forgot to mention that you sold me on the game. You have probably done more to promote the game than the entirety of Sony D: !