Hey guys
In this video I give my first impressions on a fun little title called Hypercharge: Unboxed.
The game is currently on sale on the steam store until the 5th of May.I picked it up for £7.74 the full price is £15.49 so you are currently getting it for 50% of.
There is also a free demo of the game which you can find here....
https://store.steampowered.com/app/523660/HYPERCHARGE_Unboxed/
So lets dive right in and see what the game is like...
As the title of this post mentions we play as an action figure fighting waves of enemies.Think action man or Gi Joes ,that's the kind of character we play as.
The game reminds me a lot of the 1998 movie Small Soldiers and I also cant help but think of the Toy Story movies since we are playing from a toys perspective.
The game is a first person/over the shoulder shooting game with some basic base building and tower defense mechanics.
The tutoril stage covers the basics of the game, we get to learn about combat by blasting these crash test dummy looking bots...
Next up we learn about the hypercore....these are what we have to defend in the main game
The hypercores can be defended by building walls and traps around them...
Once the base has some defenses we have to fight wave's of enemies...
Finding batteries lets us power up the power nodes which will recharge the Hypercores shield and also power machine gun towers..
For this next round we get a new weapon ,this one is a machine gun
Ok were locked ,loaded and reinforced its time for wave 2 of enemies...
These jump pads allow us to get arborne...
Jump pads allow us to find hidden collectibles...
I decided to try a Co-op game with 3 computer controlled bots helping me, you can also play with other players instead of computer controlled bots.
The first level in the main co op game is called The Dawn Of The Toys
This stage is played out in a kids room...
Lets power up the nodes and get ready for the first wave...
The first wave is just some bots ,it was a fairly easy fight....
Time to reinforce the Hypercores for wave 2...
Round 2 brings some exploding blue alien creatures called chungas ,they swell up and explode when you kill them....awesome :)
Time to reinforce the defenses and prepare for wave 3...
I decide to use this structure to get up close and attack the enemies as they come through...
The third wave brings these spinning blue tops that are capable of doing alot of damage to our defenses...
I get swarmed by them and die for the first time...
After respawning I decided to take the high ground and pick of the ones that are left...
Time to reinforce the defenses for the final wave...
For the final wave I decide to stand on the edge of the bed...being on the front lines didn't work out last time....
In this final round we have red spinning tops that are more powerful than the blues ones.We also have red chungas that are also more powerful and do more damage when they explode...
In this wave our defenses around the hypercores got smashed to pieces and the enemies actually got a chance to damage the cores and I had to get in and defend them..
My team was ultimately victorious!
By completing the level we unlocked a few things....
We managed to get a gold award for this first level...
My stats are not to bad ...52 kills 6 critical kills and 43% accuracy...I guess I need to work on my accuracy a bit for next time!
In conclusion I think this games a lot of fun...it's simple in nature , defend the hypercores from waves of nostalgic toys...build up your defenses and blast increasingly difficult waves of enemies GI Joe style!
I can see myself playing a lot of this game and will likely share some footage of the more interesting battles here.
There's a free demo of the game and its currently only £7.74 to buy it , if this seems like fun to you I would highly recommend checking it out,its well worth the currently discounted price.