2 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 141.3 hrs on record (85.7 hrs at review time)
Posted: 2 Apr, 2018 @ 11:47am

It's complete and utter chaos! There's simply no other way to describe it.
Well... fine, maybe there is:

Cobalt WASD is a high-octane 2D shooter where 2 teams fight to either plant or defuse a bomb. While the gamemode isn't exactly innovative, the considerable range of weapons and classes at your disposal make for very interesting combos, so the game doesn't ever feel boring or tedious.

Now, you may have already seen the trailer and thought "Wow. I have NO idea what's happening" and while I do agree that at first it may be tough to aware of everything that's going on, once you learn the ropes and play a few rounds, the chaos becomes a beautiful dance of bullets, grenades and rockets with you weaving through them gracefully and landing the perfect sword strike on an enemy's head as they foolishly try to reload.

Okay, that MAY take more than a couple of rounds to pull off, but the point is, when you get the grasp of things, you start to exploit the chaos, to take advantage of it to do something amazing or to completely outsmart the enemy. It's... great.

WASD is relatively easy to get into since 2D aiming isn't too hard to control, but a big part of this game has to do with player awareness and quick thinking. You'll find that the skilled players out there are better not because of their aim necessarily, but because of their reaction times and game sense. You'll be shooting at someone and suddenly they throw a grenade that ricochets twice and lands square on your head and you can't help but to open your mouth in awe and think to yourself "I can't believe that just happened.".

Anyways, I think I've more or less described how it feels to play WASD. And yes, I did get the game for free since I participated in the beta so take my opinion with a pinch of salt, but honestly, for 7 euros, this is a quite a deal.
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