Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Titanfall

Titanfall is a highly anticipated game being developed by Respawn. It will be available for Xbox One and PC on March 11th with a Xbox 360 version being released later in the year.  If you haven't heard of Titanfall yet, then where have you been.  It's an online based video game, made by the same group of people who made some of the Call of Duty games.  Essentially you play as a pilot, and you have these giant mechs called Titans. You have the option of either fighting Call of Duty style "run-and-gun" or you can call in a Titanfall and battle with your mech.  I managed to play a bit of Titanfall during the open beta on PC, and I was impressed.

You can fight Titans by foot with an Anti-Titan Weapon.

You start out the game by going through a series of training excersies which help you learn the controls and get you fimiliar with the Titanfall universe.  You'll start off by learning the basic looking up and down, and walking around.  It gradually gets more advanced, all the way to the end where you learn how to run the Titan.  The Titans are really impressive.  They are big and bad with badass weaponry.  The really cool thing about the Titans is that you have the option of either operating the mech or letting the automation take over.  It was amazing to run around as the pilot, shooting down enemies while the titan did the same thing.

Be cautious though because pilots on the ground have Anti-Titan Weapons which are specialized weapons that are for destroying Titans.  If you are not paying attention with shields down, then your titan will not last long.  Some Titans can deflect bullets and send them back to the assalant.  Which can be really effective.  While the Titan is reloading, using the deflection move will help from getting damaged.  However Titans cannot deflect Anti-Titan ammunition.

The Titan is absolutely fun to operate!

When playing on the PC, it ran smoothly on the Radeon HD 7770.  Running at smooth 60 frames per second.  Would highly recommend getting this game on launch day if you have an Xbox One or PC.  That is if you either enjoy shooter games or want to experience a cool mech game.  From the experience of the open beta, it ran smoothly and was fun.  Rating from playing the beta: 8/10.