Gotham City Impostors is frantic fun for shooter fans who want something a little different.
If you've caught a nasty case of first-person-shooter fatigue, you might be wondering what the genre needs to do to reignite your interest. Gotham City Impostors, a downloadable offering developed by the people responsible for the F.E.A.R. franchise, has one potential answer: add obsessed Batman and Joker admirers who can grapple, glide and roller-skate around arenas with aplomb. It's an unusual solution that produces a memorable game.
Gotham City Impostors doesn't star Batman himself or any of the traditional antagonists from the DC canon. Rather, the experience focuses on two rival gangs that are vying for control over Gotham City. They call themselves the Jokerz and the Bats, but they're not nearly as sophisticated as the hero and villain who inspire them. The differences can be explained by financial limitations; one of the Bats will inform you if you wisely choose to complete the Initiation mode. Batman can afford to be noble--to beat the stuffing out of a bad guy and let him limp home--but these gang members don't have that luxury. Death and dismemberment are their only options.
Apart from the brief tutorial and a more extended Challenges mode that turns the game's available arenas into demanding obstacle courses (consider this mode your boot camp; a chance to acquaint yourself with area layouts without needing to constantly look over your shoulder), the entire experience takes place online. You are randomly assigned to one of the two gangs at the start of a given round. You and as many as five allies try to demolish the rival team in one of three primary modes: Team Deathmatch, Fumigation, and Psych Warfare.
Team Deathmatch offers the least structure of any mode. The first team to score 50 kills within the time limit wins, or the gang in the lead when the timer reaches zero snags the victory. Fumigation plays out more like a round of Conquest in the Battlefield games. Gang members try to secure and hold three objectives that gradually add percentage points to the team's overall total. A constant tug-of-war ensues as both sides race to reach 100 percent, which is a difficult undertaking when the other side can steal points by claiming control points. Finally, Psych Warfare is Capture the Flag with a twist: the team that finds and holds a battery for a certain period of time can then start broadcasting propaganda that leaves rival team members defenseless except for hilariously effective slaps.
While the general descriptions of the three modes may sound like they could just as easily apply to nearly any recent FPS of note, Gotham City Impostors stands apart from its peers because of the lengths it goes to encourage controlled chaos. On one level, it's a standard shooter. Players choose from a variety of weapons that include machine guns, grenade launchers, sniping rifles, and so forth. That's only the start, though. Each standard character is also equipped with special gear that determines how he or she moves around the map. There are roller skates that make speedy movement a breeze, along with ramps that can send a skating warrior flying through the air as a lethal blur. There are gliding suits that allow gang members to catch updrafts and then dive-bomb their foes into submission. It's even possible to use cloaking skills, double jumps, and charged leaps that allow even the bulkiest of thugs to bound up to the highest platforms. Fast-paced combat practically requires constant movement.
The five available arenas are arranged in a manner that truly capitalizes on the potential that the various gadgets provide. Whether you're ducking around crates stacked along the docks, negotiating the confined amusement park hallways, gunning down rivals in the open city streets, sailing through the air as you circle the chemical treatment plant, or sniping from rooftops along the edge of a nuclear power plant, you can find options that suit your style of play and equipment. Players who want to keep to the ground and play Gotham City Impostors like a standard corridor shooter can certainly do so. But open rooftops and streets provide a sniper's paradise while also allowing you to spend most of your time in the air if that's what you prefer. The freedom is exhilarating.
This game is simply awesome when you start playing it. Turns out pretty boring, senseless and irritating in a couple of days. Spending a clip on a person without killing him/her? Just stupid. When you spend more time in a game trying to get points, cards, weapons or anything like that instead of actually enjoying the game is a bad, bad sign. No more F2P for me, thanks.
PLZ some one help me to get this game on my PS3...
if i could know the method step by step, would be awesome
Thank you!
I've been playing the PSN demo/trial and loving it. I really liked F.E.A.R. Combat (the free version) on the PC - my first multiplayer FPS, and i've been looking for something similar since. I think I really like FEAR because that only had a few maps and not too many players and it was manageable. Sure there were some players that were far superior, but it was still capable of learning and getting good at the game. With CoD i've found that it's a bit too demanding if you don't have the time to invest in it. So I'm pretty sure i'll be buying this, although I already have far too many FPSs'.
the games is awesome just after like a month of having no internet i started sucking at it :( but ill get goood soon c u noobs online pawned noobs by my >:D
"Once you hit level 30, which won't happen soon unless you're actively completing feats that award hefty experience bonuses" This review and Eurogamer's one mentioned something to this effect, and I find it baffling. I'm fairly bad at online shooters - case in point: before this game, I've only won two matches in GoldenEye 007 Reloaded and nothing else - and it took me 7 hours in the beta to reach level 25, and about the same time to reach level 30 once the full game was released. By comparison, it took me the same amount of time to reach level 6 in Battlefield 3 (another clear evidence that I suck at it). About the feat awards, I never went after them consciously, and still get the points from time to time. I had the distinct impression the game devs went out of their way to guarantee you'll get at least some points no matter what you do, and how well you do it. If that's a game where leveling up 'won't happen soon', in all the other online shooters leveling up is akin to watching a turtle try to cross a sports field in slow motion. :) That said, I think the review is spot-on (I'd rate it higher, but scores don't really mean anything anyway). Haven't had this much fun in an online shooter since the Unreal Tournament days.
"Once you hit level 30, which won't happen soon unless you're actively completing feats that award hefty experience bonuses" This review and Eurogamer's one mentioned something to this effect, and I find it baffling. I'm fairly bad at online shooters - case in point: before this game, I've only won two matches in GoldenEye 007 Reloaded and nothing else - and it took me 7 hours in the beta to reach level 25, and about the same time to reach level 30 once the full game was released. By comparison, it took me the same amount of time to reach level 6 in Battlefield 3 (another clear evidence that I suck at it). About the feat awards, I never went after them consciously, and still get the points from time to time. I had the distinct impression the game devs went out of their way to guarantee you'll get at least some points no matter what you do, and how well you do it. If that's a game where leveling up 'won't happen soon', in all the other online shooters leveling up is akin to watching a turtle try to cross a sports field in slow motion. :) That said, I think the review is spot-on (I'd rate it higher, but scores don't really mean anything anyway). Haven't had this much fun in an online shooter since the Unreal Tournament days.
"Once you hit level 30, which won't happen soon unless you're actively completing feats that award hefty experience bonuses" This review and Eurogamer's one mentioned something to this effect, and I find it baffling. I'm fairly bad at online shooters - case in point: before this game, I've only won two matches in GoldenEye 007 Reloaded and nothing else - and it took me 7 hours in the beta to reach level 25, and about the same time to reach level 30 once the full game was released. By comparison, I took the the same amount of time to reach level 6 in Battlefield 3 (another clear evidence that I suck at it). If that's a game where leveling up 'won't happen soon', in all the other online shooters, leveling up is akin to watching a turtle try to cross a sports field in slow motion.
Sounds pretty cool, but I'm tired of shooters now, there are way to many. Also, if I was to pick a shooter, it'd have to be a non-cartoony one. I'll pass, unless it goes to $5 or something.
Match making does suck, and I knew it would get this rating for review. But all in all, its a fun game. Wasn't expectin much from it. But wish the matchmakin was better.
GCi is a good game not a fantastic game,,its a mix of tf2 and cs or cod,,but i enjoyed tf2 more
