Intravenous Reviews

god game

I already love metal gear and hotline miami, feels like it was made for me

Pick this up if you're between Hitman games, or if you just love being a sneaky little f*cker.

Intravenous is a game about a really cool guy who can eat pizza and drink beer whenever he wants because he is an adult.

If you're looking for a game that sucks and isn't made with love, definitely don't buy this game.

A very good game. It's basically hotline miami but with stealth and darker colours

Hotline Miami, but if instead of getting to do cool violence every time action started the game slammed closed a car door on your left testicle. I get what it's going for, but when you're found out you die instantly. And when you die, you're sent back to the start of the stage. And this means you have to belly crawl for five minutes to get back to where you were when you died. Where you die again. This is a game where you can git good, and that'll remove some of the frustration. But the process of gitting good involves doing that tedious five minute belly crawl a thousand times. Unless your left testicle craves the car door, there's not anything to enjoy here. Some other gripes. You need to go nonlethal to get the good ending. The silent choke out is immensely finnicky with its context window---you have to be directly behind someone, wait for the symbol to pop up, and *then* hit and hold the key. Very often you'll press too early and the game will refuse to count it until you fully release and re-press the key, or the enemy will waggle slightly in its movement pattern and nullify the attempt at a choke. And then it's car door, left testicle, boring five minute crawl back to where you were. Honestly they should just artificially inflate all the load times by five minutes but let you respawn where you die. That way I could make a sandwich or get in a few pages of a book while experiencing the riveting wait. In terms of music and tactical ninja stuff, both are solid. The soundtrack is fun and dynamic, and does a good job at both immersing and matching the pace of play. Getting to pick out your weapons is cool, and it would be satisfying to try different playstyles if the gameplay did not consist of car door, left testicle, five minute crawl. I'm going to take one more shot at things, switching down to easy mode and fully ramboing out, but I really can't recommend Intravenous based on what I've experienced so far. If you're a hardcore fan of stealth action and nothing that exists has ever had the power to tilt you, you could probably waste a lot of hours learning this game. If you like Metal Gear or Hotline Miami, play those instead. Edit: Yeah, nah. The game has a specific way it wants you to play and that way is unbearably boring. I might check out the second title, since if they make the choke less miserable to try and perform the overall gamefeel might improve drastically, but I'm not sure there's any other way to improve the game without contravening its vision of a hardcore third person stealth title. The problem is its vision isn't fun unless you're a very specific type of person, and I am not that type of person.

Splinter cell but top down, it's excellent. Came into the game expecting to play it once or twice, ended up being the first game I ever 100%-ed. Story is a little weak but it's serviceable, gave me enough to think about while I played. Soundtrack is pretty great, slow, droning ambience while stealthing, touch ass electronica while going loud. One of my favourite bits are the little in-game interactions between the enemies while everything is calm. Gameplay is rock solid, the AI is extremely competent and makes me with that other tactical games had AI on this level. Gunplay as well is phenomenal, each gun has a unique personality and it gives you enough options to satisfy every type of playstyle, only complaint is that the [spoiler] AN-94 and AK-107 [/spoiler] are a lot less useful then they ought to be due to no other enemies having the ammo that they use, which bothers me because you have to drop your cool new toy to use something more mundane like an m4 or shotgun. Highly recommend it to anybody that yearns for a good stealth experience

lmao the creator of the game added Castiel's most famous quote in here to attract enemies "hey assface"

After an hour of this, my biceps blew up, I benched 20kg more on each side, and my ATG squats were intensely explosive. This is the most fun I've had in a top-down shooter in a while. The gameplay loop is perfect: > start as Garrett/Sam Fisher > knock out or assassinate goons as you find your target > exfiltrate John Wick-style (or you can stick to Garrett/Sam Fisher if you so desire) If this appeals to you, then you'll love this game.