Vanquish 2010

Is it still worth playing?

A cover shooter that does not want you to take cover: every room has waist high walls and barriers, and the score drops for every second spent behind them. Sam Gideon, a DARPA agent in the ARS, a prototype battle suit with jets in its thighs, is deployed to the space colony Providence, seized by the Order of the Russian Star, for five acts of Russian made robots. This 2010 shooter for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, with a PC version in 2017, was directed by Shinji Mikami, who wanted Casshern with guns. The suit is the game: boost and he slides across the floor on his knees at speed, into cover and straight out of it, and near death, or whenever he aims while sliding, time slows, with the suit overheating if you lean on either. The knee slide still scores you for not using the cover.