The WhatsNext verdict
For Players looking for experimental narrative games that use interactive gaming tropes to explore online social dynamics.: It masterfully disguises a story about toxic friendship, exclusion, and vulnerability inside a simulated multiplayer tactical shooter. Tradeoff: The shooting mechanics are intentionally crude and clunky, and the entire experience wraps up in a single short sitting.
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.
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