You don't always want to play video games with a deep story and/or a surprising technological display like The Last of UsRed Dead Redemption 2, Microsoft Flight SimulatorGod of War Ragnarök, Elden Ring or any of the wonders that have been presented these days at the Summer Game Fest 2024.
Sometimes many players, including myself, have days or stages in which we want experiences in which we can have fun destroying everything and causing massacres of NPCs. And there is a good catalog of video games for us: DOOM, WolfensteinSuperHot, Anger Foot, Mullet Mad Jack, Ultrakill and even Call of Duty.
What do all these games have in common? Which are absurdly violent and generally don't give you much of a head start with deep stories, complicated mechanics, puzzles and other things that slow down the pace of the game. Quite the opposite: the more frenetic and unbridled, the better. And this is where our protagonist comes in.
I am Your Beast: another descent into madness
The Steam Next Fest, available until June 17, 2024 (7:00 p.m.), has brought a huge shipment of video game Demos. It is the perfect opportunity to discover and try proposals beyond everything popular that we have seen these days: Assassin's Creed Shadows, Star Wars Outlaws, DOOM: The Dark Ages, Gears of War: E-Day.
Everyone knows about these future wonders as long as they are informed. However, the Steam festival opens the door to hundreds of games that usually go unnoticed and here they have the opportunity to shine. At VidaExtra we have distributed a few to try them and write about them. Not only to tell our experience, but also to make them known and perhaps discover little hidden gems.
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You are secret agent Alphonse Harding. You supposedly retired six years ago, but they keep asking you to do them “one last favor.” When you reject the last mission, a violent guerrilla war breaks out between you and the Covert Operations Initiative (COI), which fills the forest with corpses and bullet casings.
Finish off your adversaries. Use your own equipment against them. Hide in your network of tunnels before enemy forces find your location. Do it again.
Today I want to talk to you about I am Your Beast, a very frenetic FPS developed by Strange Scaffold and whose release date is set for August 15, 2024. If I had to describe it in a few words, it would be like putting a John Wick, SuperHot and a playlist of electronic music and then press the maximum power button. It also reminded me a lot of Anger Foot.
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The gameplay is not much different from the last two games mentioned: you have to kill an area full of enemies and do it as quickly as possible. There are usually additional challenges, but in general it is enough to get from point A to B alive. Without further ado.
The Steam demo has four levels, of which one is the tutorial and the other three are the challenge to overcome. In two of the three maps the main objective is to kill the enemies and in one of them you must defuse bombs while destroying the unfortunates who protect them. All levels have a series of additional challenges such as killing with melee or explosions, for example.
It is true that it has a small revenge subplot, but it is unimportant compared to the main objective of the game: burst everyone as quickly as possible anyway. You can use fists, kicks, knives, pistols, assault rifles, shotguns, snipers… Anything goes as long as you kill the enemies. You can even throw weapons to incapacitate or kill enemies and pick up their weapon in the air. Very SuperHot!
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All this accompanied by an artistic style that reminded me of The Long Dark and Firewatch and music that I am not able to endure for more than an hour. It's electronic. My advice is to turn down the volume and use your own playlist. In my case, I opted for the Soundtrack of Guardians of the Galaxy and Fallout 76. The result is not so crazy, but certainly the headshots come in with much more style. “True Survivor” by David Hasselhoff, I recommend it.
Beyond the joke, I am Your Beast It is based on a very simple principle: trial and error. Enter, mess up, die and start again. Over and over again until you memorize and master the entire level. In the end, you become John Wick or Tyler Rake himself. It is a very pleasant sensation and it doesn't take too long because the gunplay is quite simple (which is not synonymous with bad) and permissive when it comes to taking headshots.
I am Your Beast It is not going to win GOTY 2024 and it is likely that the rest of the categories will not be nominated either. And nothing happens! Even so, if you like video games about killing like a madman with loud music in the background, I recommend that you give it a chance because you are going to have a great time. In fact, give all the games of the style mentioned in this post a chance.
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