By: Thegreenback
Hydrophobia
is a game where the world has been flooded by a mass of people from
over population. Your character lives on a vessel called "Queen of the
World." A gigantic ship that has been living comfortably while the rest
of the world suffers.
You play as Kate, an engineer, who knows and works on the ship daily. As you start out, you loose your signal to your TV and then go investigate. Finding out that your under a terrorist attack from a group that’s called Malthusians. Where they want to destroy lots of people so that the world doesn’t suffer from population going out of control. You then get sucked into the middle of the chaos where fires have happened and explosions. And must find your way back to the top of the ship to save yourself and others.
The game has some puzzle parts to it. Where you have to figure out how to get to another room so you can keep going. Or that you must find keys to unlock doors. It can be slow on that part when enemies come to kill you. Or going to areas that you need to hack the computer with your handy device that you will need to use a lot. You try to match the wave lengths using both analog sticks on your controller. Making it a different way to get into new or previous areas a nice touch to the game.
The combat system is different. You eventually find a gun that shoots pulse shots knocking down enemies, charging how strong you want the shot to be. Exploding barrels.. Or even shooting at glass to break things. You can shoot at areas with water behind it and do a light shot you see it crack slowly more till it breaks and flooding the area with more water. Giving you more ways to take out your enemies tries to get your style of taking people down. From being sneaky to going gun a blazing and shooting at what comes near you. Eventually you find upgrades so that you can shoot bullets to take people out or have sticky bombs to explode.
The best thing about this game is the water graphics and how things flow. You can flood a whole area if wanted or needed. As the water moves around, it affects how barrels go or items about the ship that you pass through. With you being affected also either by swimming or trying to stay hidden but a wave pushes you up. The way that the water is flowing can be helpful or not. You can try and push an enemy to you with some water opened behind him or in front of him to push him away.
Other than the water looking amazing, the game leaves you wanting more in the other areas. With the characters not moving correctly or that a lot of places look the same and you need to use your map a lot just to make sure you’re not going around and around. Or when you’re doing a scene but can move your camera, the people talk and there mouth doesn’t even move. Also the voice acting can be a bit off some feeling like you’re in the moment and others like a commercial poorly done.
The overall is that the water engine is amazing with how the graphics is to making stuff move and react to it. The game can feel a bit repetitive at some points and even the areas seem as if it's the same. The fighting is shooting based with other options for ammunition but not needed at all. The story is alright with wanting you to see it through but feels a little stretched at some points.
You play as Kate, an engineer, who knows and works on the ship daily. As you start out, you loose your signal to your TV and then go investigate. Finding out that your under a terrorist attack from a group that’s called Malthusians. Where they want to destroy lots of people so that the world doesn’t suffer from population going out of control. You then get sucked into the middle of the chaos where fires have happened and explosions. And must find your way back to the top of the ship to save yourself and others.
The game has some puzzle parts to it. Where you have to figure out how to get to another room so you can keep going. Or that you must find keys to unlock doors. It can be slow on that part when enemies come to kill you. Or going to areas that you need to hack the computer with your handy device that you will need to use a lot. You try to match the wave lengths using both analog sticks on your controller. Making it a different way to get into new or previous areas a nice touch to the game.
The combat system is different. You eventually find a gun that shoots pulse shots knocking down enemies, charging how strong you want the shot to be. Exploding barrels.. Or even shooting at glass to break things. You can shoot at areas with water behind it and do a light shot you see it crack slowly more till it breaks and flooding the area with more water. Giving you more ways to take out your enemies tries to get your style of taking people down. From being sneaky to going gun a blazing and shooting at what comes near you. Eventually you find upgrades so that you can shoot bullets to take people out or have sticky bombs to explode.
The best thing about this game is the water graphics and how things flow. You can flood a whole area if wanted or needed. As the water moves around, it affects how barrels go or items about the ship that you pass through. With you being affected also either by swimming or trying to stay hidden but a wave pushes you up. The way that the water is flowing can be helpful or not. You can try and push an enemy to you with some water opened behind him or in front of him to push him away.
Other than the water looking amazing, the game leaves you wanting more in the other areas. With the characters not moving correctly or that a lot of places look the same and you need to use your map a lot just to make sure you’re not going around and around. Or when you’re doing a scene but can move your camera, the people talk and there mouth doesn’t even move. Also the voice acting can be a bit off some feeling like you’re in the moment and others like a commercial poorly done.
The overall is that the water engine is amazing with how the graphics is to making stuff move and react to it. The game can feel a bit repetitive at some points and even the areas seem as if it's the same. The fighting is shooting based with other options for ammunition but not needed at all. The story is alright with wanting you to see it through but feels a little stretched at some points.
So I would give the game 4.7 out of 10
~Thegreenback~
