This... is my boomstick!

Allrighty, here's one of my favorite parts of any game. The arsenal. Naturally a game needs good guns, or it's just not going to be a very good game. Look at Barbie Fashion Designer. No guns=Bad game. Solitaire? Same deal. Monopoly? Gah. This is an important life lesson, learn it well grasshopper.

The guys on the Dev Team came up with some sweet sweet guns this time around. When you start the game, you (being a miner) start out weaponless. Not to fear, there's lots of Ultor personal roaming around you can cap and disarm. Weapons in the game range from a stun baton (melee) and pistol to old favorites like the combat shotgun, sniper rifles, rocket launcher and submachine gun. Oh, and then there's the new guns. Ohhhhh the new guns. Fusion rocket launchers that blow the bejesus out of EVERYTHING in a room.

And the coolest weapon I have ever seen in a game in my entire life. The Rail Driver. This bad boy is a one shot, one kill weapon similar to the Quake railgun. It also offers an infared scope. So you can see, and shoot, through walls. This, in multiplayer, is the weapon I camp.. Er, I mean use the most. Yes. That's it.

All weapons also have an alternate fire mode. Zoom for the sniper rifles, assault rifle fires in three round burst or full auto, missile launchers go into heat seeking mode (Only in single player regrettably.) etc. Very cool, very UTish. :)

Vehicles

As a perk to being a renegade miner of a killing spree against your legal employer, you get to high jack some rather entertaining vehicles. A jeep (With rear mounted machine gun of course.) APC (tiny tank), fighter plane, submachine, and apparently a drilling vehicle, although I never used this last one in the game myself. Most vehicles pack some decent firepower, especially the Fighter with it's rotary cannon and heat seeking missiles, and the APC with chaingun and mortar launchers. The vehicles are a great deal of fun, and make you almost unstoppable. In some cases literally, as it's one a hellof alotta fun barreling down the tunnels in a jeep, running down mutants and guards as you go. *squuuiish* <maniacal laughter>

Multiplayer

Decent in game browser, and a wide variety of games to be played here. Standard boring Quake style deathmatch, team deathmatch, CTF and support for multiplayer mods as well. Personally I prefer CTF over the deathmatch games. Design on the included maps is generally excellent, with lots of places to go, lots of cover, tons of weapon drops and nice balance.

Controls

Standard WASD shooter controls, easily remapped to meet your unique needs. No surprises here.


Manual

Nice manual, all the details on gameplay, controls and weapons you'll need. The in game tutorial actually teaches you everything you need to know anyhow. I never actually read the manual until I was working on this part of the review. There's also some nice background on the main characters on your side. Eh, it's a shooter manual, put it back in the box and get on with the damned game. :)