Every mission is open to many different approaches and often unfolds in unplanned ways, courtesy of complex AI pathways and a fully-functional urban environment. Each randomly-designed floor in Streets or Rogue is a self-contained playground in which to test the artificial intelligence of NPCs, approach typical problems with creative solutions, and conduct research on several class types, each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and innate abilities. Luckily, the moment-to-moment experimentation and decision-making in the game is so rich and varied that it mitigates the impenetrability of the campaign. To ease the pain, Streets of Rogue offers 60+ rule-altering "mutators", including Sandbox mode, which allows players to bypass mission objectives altogether, but they feel like cheating-indeed Sandbox is described as "cheat mode".
Players can increase their odds of survival slightly this way, but they're not nearly as significant as permanent unlocks, which would provide the incentive, mostly missing from this game, to tackle the campaign over and over. However, when you purchase a new ability or tool, you do not own them rather they enter into a pool of rewards that are assigned or offered at random after completing missions and levels. Now, the game does provide chicken nuggets, a black market item in the city streets (again, developer Matt Dabrowski's ironic sense of humor reveals itself) that carry over after a failed run and can be used to purchase new traits and items. Streets of Rogue, despite its successes in emergent gameplay and player choice, sometimes struggles to convince its players that repeat failure will translate to something meaningful. Essentially, the best of the genre prod, poke, and otherwise punish, but inspire confidence that one day you'll emerge victorious. A great rogue-lite manages the carrot and stick relationship artfully, doling out plenty of damage but providing enough tools and treats along the journey to inspire repeat runs. Where the game stumbles somewhat is in its feeling of hopelessness. Randomly-generated worlds and situations force players into exciting and unpredictable situations-to a point-and the ever-present fear of death makes every move and decision meaningful. Streets of Rogue nails the mechanics and the breathlessness of a rogue-lite. If you perish at any point on the journey it's back to the hub and the very bottom of the ladder. The third level of each area, in a clever twist, brings with it a unique event, e.g., a killer robot on the loose or a police crackdown. Each of the game's five main areas has three levels apiece (the sixth and final area is designed differently), with random missions that must be completed or at least attempted before players can activate an elevator that brings them up one level.
Here's how the typical run goes: you'll start in a staging ground for the Resistance-a hub area of sorts-then choose one of 24 classes and head off to the bottom layer of the city, the slums. In short, the nuts and bolts of Streets of Rogue are by far its most elaborate, interesting features. While the anti-mayor campaign serves as narrative context for the game, it takes a backseat to sandbox-style open-ended gameplay, randomly-generated missions and maps, and class-based RPG elements. In the aftermath rose a resistance movement dedicated to toppling this mayoral Mussolini.
The city's new mayor, elected on campaign promises of lower taxes and more beer, turned against his constituents, using their tax dollars to fund a personal army. Streets of Rogue has a flippant sense of humor that carries over to its storyline. The random nature and steep difficulty of the game translates to some repetition and pessimism, but overall it offers enough character, class, and rule options to create free-form fun outside of the main adventure. Streets of Rogue, while not nearly as impactful or sublime as Ion Storm's masterpiece, combines the experimental elements of Deus Ex with random world generation and permadeath to create a winning top-down rogue-lite where players have the freedom to tackle problems their way.
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One of the best PC games of all time, it set the gold standard for emergent, improvisational gameplay in an action-RPG. To be mentioned in the same breath as Deus Ex is a high honor for a video game. By Evan Norris, posted on 18 July 2019 / 4,226 Views
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