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-At first I thought this was going to be a difficult one to answer as I don’t really have much to do with gamers-at-large and wht games are trending and popular but then, as I was getting ready for work, I had a bit of a brainwave which provided me with my answer for today./“/
-A game that I believe is underrated is... *drumroll* Chromehounds!/“/
-Now. I took a bit of a liberty in choosing Chromehounds because it isn’t actually a current game. In fact, it was a pretty early game for the xbox360 that I discovered pretty late into the game’s life. However, I do believe that even when it was current it was a very underrated game./“/
-Chromehounds seemed to have taken influences from games like Armored Core and paired it with squad based capture the flag mechanics to create something rather unique./“/
-The players controlled modular megatanks, called ‘hounds’ and, in teams of up to 8 (i think) fought against each other with a ‘You Die, Your Dead’ mechanic. The entire battlefield was cloaked in a fog of war whicch blocked intra-squad communications which could only be lifted by capturing strategic locations known as COMBAS Towers and the access to communications only lasted as long as your team held the tower, meaning it would be entirely possible to cut off the communication of the other team by cutting the line of towers back to the opponent’s main base./“/
-The Hounds themselves were pretty nuanced and complex. Unlike Armored Core games in which the mechas had arms-legs-body-head-weapons setups, and the orientation and positioning are very strict, in Chromehounds each hound required a method of propulsion, a cockpit and a generator and they could be attached however the hard points would allow. The size and number of weapons that any hound could equip was only limited by the weight limit of the locomotion part and the power output of the generator. I regularly saw Hounds with 6 rocket pods, 4 machine guns and a sniper canon or two, all on the same vehicle. My personal preference was reverse jointed legs and two stacks of two of the most powerful sniper canons in the game, with which I got to be very adept - even managing to hit enemies beyond the typical reach of the weapon by mastering the bullet drop and flight times./“/
-I played Chromehounds a lot but, sadly, the servers were closed down after only a couple of years which speaks to how underrated it was. The mechanics and graphics were solid, and so was the gameplay even if the offline mode was only considered to be the tutorial for the online gameplay. I made a few friends playing that game and it will remain in my top games for a long time/“/
-A game that I believe is underrated is... *drumroll* Chromehounds!/“/
-Now. I took a bit of a liberty in choosing Chromehounds because it isn’t actually a current game. In fact, it was a pretty early game for the xbox360 that I discovered pretty late into the game’s life. However, I do believe that even when it was current it was a very underrated game./“/
-Chromehounds seemed to have taken influences from games like Armored Core and paired it with squad based capture the flag mechanics to create something rather unique./“/
-The players controlled modular megatanks, called ‘hounds’ and, in teams of up to 8 (i think) fought against each other with a ‘You Die, Your Dead’ mechanic. The entire battlefield was cloaked in a fog of war whicch blocked intra-squad communications which could only be lifted by capturing strategic locations known as COMBAS Towers and the access to communications only lasted as long as your team held the tower, meaning it would be entirely possible to cut off the communication of the other team by cutting the line of towers back to the opponent’s main base./“/
-The Hounds themselves were pretty nuanced and complex. Unlike Armored Core games in which the mechas had arms-legs-body-head-weapons setups, and the orientation and positioning are very strict, in Chromehounds each hound required a method of propulsion, a cockpit and a generator and they could be attached however the hard points would allow. The size and number of weapons that any hound could equip was only limited by the weight limit of the locomotion part and the power output of the generator. I regularly saw Hounds with 6 rocket pods, 4 machine guns and a sniper canon or two, all on the same vehicle. My personal preference was reverse jointed legs and two stacks of two of the most powerful sniper canons in the game, with which I got to be very adept - even managing to hit enemies beyond the typical reach of the weapon by mastering the bullet drop and flight times./“/
-I played Chromehounds a lot but, sadly, the servers were closed down after only a couple of years which speaks to how underrated it was. The mechanics and graphics were solid, and so was the gameplay even if the offline mode was only considered to be the tutorial for the online gameplay. I made a few friends playing that game and it will remain in my top games for a long time/“/
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