![]() ![]() One of the hacks does offer some promise that Hyper Scape may have more interesting ideas to come, though. These are not tools that make me feel like I’m breaking the Matrix. Heal and Armour do what they say on the tin, made special only by the absence of health and shield pick-ups on the map. Wall, for instance, throws up a brick barrier to break sightlines, akin to Fortnite’s building. Most of the hacks, which are picked up from the ground just like weapons, are established ideas from other battle royales given an in-universe make-over. “While I say that, the current build doesn’t bend the rules as far as I’d like. Yup, the fiction is straight out of Ready Player One, and that allows for a little bending of the rules when it comes to special abilities. You see, Neo Arcadia isn’t a real city it’s a VR metropolis located on the internet, used as an escape from a dystopian IRL. You simply have two weapon slots alongside two ability slots for ‘hacks’. There is no inventory, no weapon mods, and no armour system. It’s the staple of the battle royale genre, and yet it’s boiled down to just the bare essentials in Hyper Scape. They also indicate where people have been no orange means danger inside at worst, or all the good loot has gone at best. All ‘windows’ and ‘doors’ are actually opaque sheets of bright orange glass, which call your attention to a new area to duck or dive into. Like with Assassin’s Creed, there’s good use of visual design to direct your attention to spaces that can be used or entered. Adapting to this new way of navigating a battle royale space happened pretty quickly during my hands-on with Hyper Scape. On the way back down, buildings are covered in balconies, ridges, and windowsills to allow you to land at the right height to continue your battle. Many of the buildings can be entered and scaled via staircases - imagine if Call of Duty: Warzone’s Downtown was the blueprint for an entire map - but classic 1990s FPS-style launch pads are dotted all over the city to fire players over the skyline. Play There’s not a parkour system as such, but rooftops are clearly designed with pathways, and networks of buildings are bridged by elements such as rail tracks that tower above the streets.
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