We played the treasure hunt mode for a bit, three of us against what appears to be an infinite horde of enemies, and quickly had to come up with some kind of strategy for how to get the treasure, shoot the enemies, and heal whichever one of us had most recently gotten killed. I don’t think we ever came up with a particularly good strategy, but at least once (maybe twice) I managed to flank the largest group of enemies who were busy shooting at Henning and Joshua, and get the treasure to where it was supposed to be. That was satisfying. Minor gripes with this mode: the AI are not too intelligent if they are more willing to attack players who don’t have any treasure than to try to guard the treasure or attack the player who has it; and the treasure’s habit of magically teleporting back to its home base a few seconds after you set it down to shoot at someone is very unrealistic (compared to the rest of the game mechanics, I mean – of course it’s only a videogame!) and kind of off-putting.

Then we played the co-op campaign mode (I think that’s what it was, anyway) which involved skulking around trying to achieve teamwork objectives while shooting at the baddies who kept climbing over the nearest wall.

Overall the gameplay is a lot of fun. I was trying to figure out what Henning meant when he said this game feels different than any of the other shooters out there, and as far as I can tell, what they’ve somehow managed to do is to make everything feel just a little bit more realistic than what has gone before. I notice it the most when shooting a weapon, and slightly less so when moving about. I also like the scenery (gorgeous) and the animation (meticulously detailed). Since the game has a single-player campaign and pays a lot of attention to co-op modes, it’ll be high on my list!