#RICO LONDON SWITCH PLUS#

Unfortunately, certain aspects of RICO: London are notably worse than its predecessor. Running through as fast as you can while keeping your multiplier high is exhilarating on top of being ridiculous. Every kill gets your score multiplier higher. Instead of the focus on clearing whole maps room by room while destroying assets and grabbing intel, you just kill everything as quickly as possible.

The controls are quite good and, when RICO: London works as intended, it can be a lot of fun.

#RICO LONDON SWITCH PLUS#

Movement and aiming are better this time around, plus you can jump, which is actually helpful in spots. You kick, run, or slide into doors to open them and then attempt to kill everything you can while time is slowed down. Regardless, the general gameplay of the previous game is very much still here. You can earn a maximum of 10 merits per level, and a single medkit or syringe costs four (better be careful). In the story mode, you can go a while without being able to buy anything, though - plus everything was very expensive. The most important thing is that you can buy revival syringes and health packs. You can equip three of these, and they buff or reduce damage, let you slide further, etc. You’ll constantly be switching between guns anyway, even though enemies frequently drop them through the floor, making it impossible to pick many of them up. You can buy new weapons, but they run out of ammo fast and you have to kill an enemy with the same weapon to get more bullets. Once you get to the end of a level, you’re awarded merits that can be used to purchase supplies and upgrades. The last game had players unlocking new gear and customizing their loadouts before jumping into individual maps, but RICO: London is several levels all within one impractical building. It’s worth noting that Tim didn’t have this problem, though.īreach hull, all die. However, attempting to load from the start of a level in a daily run made my game freeze. That’ll get fixed, maybe? But I think the last game did the same thing as well, so maybe not. Whenever you die, you can load back up from the start of the last level regardless. But normal doesn’t have permadeath, either. Easy is listed as not having permadeath and for having enemies do less damage. When choosing the story mode, you have a choice between easy and normal. The voice acting is surprisingly good, even.Īs far as game structure goes, RICO: London is a rogue-lite, like its predecessor.

There are a few comic book sequences that are fully voiced, plus each section of the building comes with its own narration. Along with her partner, and against her superior’s instructions, she slaughters her way to the top of the building to put a stop to all sorts of criminal mischief. Back in her native England, she’s one of those cops who busts into places and operates in a way that can only exist in fiction. If you played RICO, you might recognize RICO : London‘s protagonist, Kate, the English woman prominently featured in the game’s opening cutscene. It has its charms, but it’s light on content and needs some serious polish in spots. There, are you happy?! While the first game had a lot of kicking in doorways followed by entering slow-motion and blowing everything in the next room away, that’s all London does. Tim also passive-aggressively added that it’s like Die Hard, which it is. RICO: London, though, is like a mix between these two things, but with a spotlight on score attack and copious amounts of janky bullshit. RICO, the 2019 original, was a game that focused on cops busting into compact buildings, eliminating everyone inside, as well as interfering with their criminal operations. Dredd and The Raid : Redemption are both great movies about the main characters battling their ways through entire tall buildings filled with criminals.

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