These include Blood Art abilities, which add additional moves and functions to your existing weapons (with about 400 variants to unlock), and Blood Rage – a system in which you basically bet on yourself to complete challenges during combat, like doing so much damage in a certain amount of time, in order to unlock temporary special skills and buffs for your character. Like all good sequels, Rage Burst refines the parts of it’s predecessor that worked well, while adding some additional flourishes of its own. However, instead of trying to best 100 weak enemies you’re tasked with taking out a handful of huge ones while wielding transforming God arcs that allow players to swiftly switch between melee and ranged weapons with the press of a button, literally taking lumps out of foes with predator mode as your weapon transforms into a giant razor-toothed maw that bites down on Aragami. With simple controls and fairly intuitive systems, melee combat is fast and furious, with an emphasis on evasion and softening up enemies from afar, before dashing right into the middle of the fray in a similar manner ot a warriors game. Much like it’s predecessor, players are tasked with completing a series of missions with three teammates in tow (either AI or other players online), fighting a steady string of increasingly menacing Aragami, while slowly improving your gear and levelling up your abilities to help deal with the ever increasing threat.īattling beasts in God Eater 2: Rage Burst is far more immediate and accessible than in the Monster Hunter series attacking and evading your enemy is a simple affair and doesn’t require the same amount of patience or preparation. Imbued with special Blood Art abilities that they can use to essentially turn the tide of battle, they are tasked with taking on Aragami that ordinary God Eaters aren’t powerful enough to handle. Set in the wastes of a post-apocalyptic Japan in which humanity has been pushed to the brink of extinction by huge creatures known as Aragami, you play as a member of an elite group of God Eaters known as the Blood faction. Quite a few characters from the first pop up in the sequel and it’s hard to appreciate the games’ myriad of small adjustments and improvements if you jump straight into Rage Burst, but god damn do you miss them when you go back to Resurrection. However, to sweeten the deal somewhat Namco have also generously bundled the rather spiffy remaster of the original game – God Eater: Resurrection. To get you up to speed ( Full review here) I’d recommend playing through the series in order too, as 2 is a direct sequel, and relies quite heavily on you already being familiar with the world. God Eater 2: Rage Burst isn’t even the first in the series, instead it is an enhanced port of the second game (hence the 2). It’s taken almost two years for God Eater 2 to lumber across the Pacific and arrive on Western shores.

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