$19.99Hard Reset Redux Ten guns, one katana, endless machines
Hold the last human city as Major Fletcher, dashing and slashing through relentless robot hordes in a rain-soaked cyberpunk arena shooter.
Is Hard Reset Redux worth it?
Hard Reset Redux is worth it if…
- you miss shooters where the arena is the level and the horde is the point
- you like fast movement, quick dodges and weapons that change shape mid-fight
- you want a cyberpunk city with rain, neon and robots instead of stealth and hacking
- you enjoy hunting side rooms for secrets that pay for upgrades
- you found the original Hard Reset a bit too punishing and want a fairer fight
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Two guns that refuse to stay two guns
You carry exactly two weapons: a ballistic rifle and an energy gun. Spend the experience you earn from kills and secrets, and each one grows new firing modes, from shotgun to grenade launcher to rocket fire, until you are juggling ten ways to blow things up. The trick is switching modes mid-fight: one button flips the gun in your hands into something else, and the best runs chain those swaps without a pause. No reloading, either. The Redux edition adds a cyber-katana for close work and a quick dash, so when the swarm closes in you can carve a path through it or slide out the back. It is a small arsenal with a lot of depth.
A city worth saving, barely
Humanity is down to one walled city, Bezoar, while machines hold the Barrens outside. The machines also want the Sanctuary, a network holding billions of uploaded human minds, and they keep hammering the walls. When the barrier is breached, Maj. Fletcher of the CLN combat unit moves in. The story arrives in comic-panel cutscenes and radio chatter, and it stays grim: extinction, uploaded souls, a war nobody is winning. Between fights you run through rain, neon and advertising glow in a dark cyberpunk city that looks the part, and the campaign stays tense from breach to finale.
