How does one know if their property is successful? Well it becomes a tv show with a spin off series. A manga. A movie with the wrong actors portraying the wrong races and a video game. Ghost in the Shell is a game wait thats not what it is? Oh okay. Ghost in the Shell First Assault is a no? Really? Okay. Ehem okay I got it. Ghost in the Shell First Assault Stand Alone Complex Online is a game made by the Korean developer Neopole who according to their website makes wonders. The problem is this game is not a wonder. Actually I fell asleep while playing this game it was so boring. This game has the usual team fortress/ moba variety we’ve seen with Battleborne and Overwatch. The shooting is very mediocre. It works but its not really satisfying. The guns are very generic. Stand Alone Complex Online’s contribution to gaming is sharing special abilities. But I never really noticed the sharing doing anything. Everyone seemed to just be doing their thing.
For those who want a little more depth well there’s three game modes. Team Deathmatch, Conquest, and Demolition modes. You can change your loadout with weapons you can unlock and use or purchase from a store with in game currency which surprise surprise you could purchase yourself with real money. There are augmentations and attachments that make numbers higher. There are skins that are non distinguishable from the base skins. You get 3 operatives for free. The first one is unlocked immediately and the other two at level 3 and level 5. Other than that you have to purchase them for 10 dollars. And with no apparent character rotation if you want to try out a new character well you're out of luck buddy.
The graphics of this game is so flat and the aesthetics so drab. The maps are generic. The menu UI is just plain ugly and hard to understand what’s going on.
Bottom line I can not recommend this game at all. Not even if you're a fan of the franchise because it doesn’t even do anything interesting with that world. I want to watch the show because of people tell me about it. This game doesn’t even push me to watch the show. This game is pretty much a free to play game that you have to pay 5 dollars for. Later on it's going free to play but its not worth the time and money right now. There are better free to play shooters out there that does the team based shooter thing better than this game. This game feels like someone put a Ghost in the shell skin on-top of a completely unrelated shooter. I would actually rather play those games. But what do I know I’m just a sponge.
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