![]() ![]() Though dinky, the environments are packed with routes and vantage points, some of which hinge on skilled use of the game’s wall-jump (characters in Dirty Bomb are as agile as those of Brink, but the parkour stuff is there to discover rather than being thrust on you). Having secured and repaired the prize, you’ll peek over its carapace at the misty summit of the Shard as the beast inches towards your next objective through a bombardment of grenades. Leaping a tank barrier on the Bridge map, you’ll spend a half-second admiring the pale green ironwork of London Bridge Market before making a run on the crippled extraction vehicle languishing in the other side’s clutches. The maps aren’t modelled directly on areas from the city but flavoured by them, often to lovely effect. London is everywhere in Dirty Bomb, from its red letterboxes to the graceful arches of Waterloo Station, but unlike the reality, it’s seldom inconvenient. In fact, one of this formidable, comfortable shooter’s greatest strengths is how it chisels readable warrens of coverspots, overlooks and chokepoints out of the capital’s beguiling weirdness. You couldn’t ask for a less elegant setting for a multiplayer FPS in the Team Fortress vein, where a single sightline askew can be the difference between enjoyment and fury, but the studio has done a bang-up job. London, where heading a mile downriver feels like setting foot on a different planet. London, a metropolis blown half to bits during World War 2, then mutated into absurd, glittering shapes by overseas investors. London, a city that’s actually a bunch of medieval villages mashed into each other, where roads designed for horses struggle to find room for buses and Range Rovers. Splash Damage has a multitude of demons to slay with its latest spin on Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory - the ever-controversial choice of a free-to-play model, the spectre of Brink, its previous stab at a new IP - but the most fearsome of these demons is surely London itself. I'm the sniper-est sniper there is.I managed to get hopelessly lost on my way to last week’s Dirty Bomb event, squirrelled away in the trendy thicket of London’s Old Truman Brewery. I am back! Like movie sequel! Vassili I'm a sniper. Actually it's the same hand, but that don't sound as good. ![]() ![]() Serious business! Sawbonez With one hand I save life, with the other I take it. ![]() Aura Aura the Medic, yadda yadda, heals the ill, shoots the healthy - are we done? Aura's the name, healing's the…hell, it ain't no game. Kira Why won't people just see me for who I am, and not for the colossally destructive weapons satellite I control? Too bad, so sad, you're dead to me, you're sashimi I'm feeling Genki! Kawaiiiii! Skyhammer I'll bomb you back into, well, any age you fancy really! Don't let your gun go hungry. OH WAIT, EXPLOSIVE CHARGE! Proxy I'd tell you what I think of you, but there aren't enough asterisks in the world to print it. And I don't give out tickets, I.you know what, bad analogy Thunder I specialize in bang. ![]()
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