Despite the near-constant action, it’s still a dull, repetitive shooter that wears out its welcome within a few minutes, and you’d be well-advised to skip it entirely.Īksys Games provided us with a RICO: London Switch code for review purposes. Then again, it’s not like RICO: London puts much effort into anything else, so I get why they’d skip something so basic. We’re not talking complex gameplay, of course, so it’s not like you need to figure out anything too crazy, but it doesn’t seem like too much to ask that a game give you a screen that displays which button does what. This is just a minor quibble, but it took me far too long to figure out how to reload my gun – but I only figured it out after I’d pressed every single button, and I’d died several times trying to figure it out. There’s virtually no variety to the missions (to the game’s credit, it does start giving you objectives other than “Kill everyone!” once you get into the later levels), the rooms on any given floor all start looking pretty similar once you’ve been through three or four of them, the characters all look pretty much the same, and you’ll hear the same bits of dialogue repeated ad nauseum in every single new room.īizarrely, the game assumes that you’ve played RICO already, so it never actually tells you how to play. You kick down a door, you get a brief burst of slo-mo vision during which time you can blast away at the bad guys caught off-guard, then you finish shooting up the place and move on to the next room, where you do it all over again. RICO: London is basically one of those games where you see everything it has to offer in its first few minutes. Even as someone who’s inclined towards that kind of gameplay, it didn’t take long before I found myself incredibly bored. Rather, it’s that it delivers on its promise of door-busting, guns-blazing action a little too well: there’s literally nothing else to do in this game. London, New Years Eve 1999 While everyone is getting ready to party the metropolitan police are working overtime. The problem with RICO: London isn’t that it doesn’t deliver on what it promises. In fact, if anything, it’s bad enough that I’ve removed RICO from my Wish List, since it’s hard to imagine this game having anything good associated with it. If RICO: London is any indication of what that first game was like, however, I’m not going to be rushing out to the eShop and grabbing RICO the next time it goes on sale. So I was definitely keen to check out RICO: London this time around, rather than letting it slip into my ever-increasing backlog. It got decent reviews, and the basic gameplay – where you’re just busting down doors and shooting everything in sight – appealed to me as someone who likes to shoot first and plan later, at least when it comes to games. So after a while I finally gave up and deinstalled the game.RICO was one of those games that I was always kind of interested in playing, but never got around to it for some reason. I even tried to set my PS4 to 1080p mode which made it slightly better but the aiming is still so sluggy and the only game setting is "camera shake". On console I do not recommend anybody to buy this game. I tried to make it through my first case by using melee and some door cheesing strats but ultimately this is not possible because there are too many enemies that will wear you down. I played several shooters including Doom, Far Cry and whatever but this game makes it impossible to aim. Sadly on my PS4 Pro with SSD not only the loading times are crappy as hell it is not possible to smoothly aim because the framerate is so bad that it is just not possible. The game itself seems fun and it might be very fun in coop. Rico: London is available on Switch and PC from September 9, with planned releases for Nintendo Switch and PS4 in the future. The This is one of the few games I totally regret I paid money for and due to playing on PS4 dont have any possibility to refund this crap. This is one of the few games I totally regret I paid money for and due to playing on PS4 dont have any possibility to refund this crap.
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