The WhatsNext verdict
If you enjoy short experimental games that use familiar interfaces to examine toxic online friendships, It Takes a War delivers a memorable and unsettling story. If you want a mechanically satisfying team shooter, its deliberately rough combat will likely be a barrier.
What it does best
A shooter that turns into a story about online friendship
The game itself becomes the narrative device
A painfully believable online friend group
What might put you off
Rough, intentionally mediocre shooter mechanics
A very short, single-sitting experience
The setup
What you are walking into
Graphics! Guns! Glory! Get ready to drop into a devastatingly real depiction of the battlefield as you and your team take on a relentless foe. It Takes a War presents a new vision for the team-based tactical shooter genre.
Where it lives
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