Ghost in the Sh…wait, what?

Recently got into a class-based shooter called NeoTokyo.  It’s a pretty cool game, and that’s a lot coming from someone who doesn’t care for class-based shooters, or just multiplayer games in general.  It’s a mod game that’s free to download from Steam.

Heavily inspired by anime titles like Ghost in the Shell and Akira, NeoTokyo has you in a setting that takes place 30-40 years in the future.  A failure in attempting to alter the Japanese Constitution so it can engage in offensive military actions causes a rift.  A group from the armed forces starts a coup that was close to succeeding.  To uphold the constitution and to prevent further coups, the Prime Minister forms a new branch for the Interior Ministry called the National Security Force (NSF).  A new group calling themselves JINRAI is attempting a new coup.  Clashes between these two forces are now occurring all throughout Japan and the thoughts and minds of this once stable country is now torn in two.

This game has large levels that contain a combination of closed-in hallway type sections and large open areas.  You pick to side with either JINRAI or NSF and then pick your class and weapon.  Mainly a Capture the Flag game, you hunt out for the one flag in the level that’s called a Ghost.  It’s a torso of an android, and once someone grabs it, it gains them the ability to linkup to a satellite that grants the person to see where everyone is at on the map.  The game seems well balanced and is fun to play – even though I get killed rather quickly.  There are neat gadgets to use like cloaking devices, nightvision goggles, and motionvision sensors.  And taking place in the future, each level has neat futuristic touches to them.

Don’t know how rare this is, but on my second play, a modder for the game joined our team.  Some people were slightly giddy about this.  I thought it was pretty rad.

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