![]() For example, you can activate helpful drones to aid you or execute a risky ability that causes your suit to self-destruct, taking out you and anyone in your blast radius (great for when the opposing team is clustered on the same platform). Over time and by amounting kill streaks, certain abilities are made available. The downside is that it also has the chance to randomly backfire and one-shot kill its wielder. One gun called the Gambler, for instance, can one-shot kill any enemy. In addition to your basic shotguns and sniper rifles, there are some excellent odd ones that shake things up. With a whole host of weapons and latent ability combinations, the variety available in Hybrid is seemingly endless. Before you begin, you choose weapon loadouts and a special ability. Being a third-person shooter, certain gameplay mechanics will be familiar to anyone with experience with shooters. ![]() Hybrid may be a 3-versus-3 game, but the story's war takes place in a massive and persistent online world with a cumulative meta-game to be detailed further later. They focus on gameplay concepts that have not been done before and they run with them.Īfter playing Hybrid, I completely understand what they mean. Instead, they build their games around intriguing ideas. 5TH Cell does not tie themselves down to only a single genre. Prior to playing the game, I asked how the team went from anyone-can-play fare like Scribblenauts to what many would consider a decidedly hardcore property with Hybrid. Hybrid looks to be the game that bucks all wearisome expectations.ĭeveloped by the talented group at 5TH Cell (the studio behind stellar Nintendo DS games like Lock's Quest, Drawn to Life, and Super Scribblenauts), Hybrid is an Xbox LIVE Arcade exclusive third-person shooter. After a long seven years, it is not unreasonable to expect innovations in such a tried genre to fade. During this console generation's lifecycle, the shooter genre rose to astonishing prominence. ![]() Just when you think a genre has run its course, along comes a game that defies any preconceived notions. ![]()
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