Neotokyo
Neotokyo is a Source engine mod that released last weekend. I started playing Monday night and I’ve put maybe 2 hours into it. I like it. There’s a lot of people on the internet bitching about it and I think I’m going to chalk it up to either clueless idiots who don’t “get it” and Dystopia fanboys who wanted another Dystopia.
Neotokyo has been described as Ghost in the Shell meets Counter-Strike and that’s not far off the mark. It’s class-based and centered around a capture the flag variant called Capture the Ghost. The ghost is a limb-less torso that requires the capturor to drop his primary weapon in exchange for the ability to see all enemies within 50m of the capturor. In a pinch you can put the ghost on your back to arm yourself with your pistol or knife but if you have any teammates alive around you, you’re better off holding the ghost and telling the rest of the team where to shoot. The setting is near-future (30-40 year) Japan, so while you have things like thermoptic camouflage and all manner of alternative vision, there’s no lasers or rocket launchers. The armature is strictly SMGs, assault rifles, long rifles, and pistols.
I’m not entirely sure why I enjoy this so much. I play recon, which is the lightest class, and I almost never survive a whole round. It’s fun to sneak around back and try to get the drop on as many members of the other team as I can before I’m inevitably sniped. The game doesn’t count assists or else I’d probably score much higher but I’m usually in the top five.
I started this entry to provide counterpoints to other people’s gripes about it but that’s an uphill battle, in the rain, wearing greased shoes. The official forums aren’t up so there’s no real outlet to voice your approval to the dev team so I’m just going to do it here. Keep it up, Studio Radi-8! Neotokyo is pretty bad ass!
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Yeah it is a pretty good game, but I think the people bitching about the game just in general don’t like tactical fps games, because a lot of people from Dystopia play and support NT. Infact, most of the downloads for NT were from Dystopia based clan sites and even the Dystopia site itself, if any game would have ‘fanboyism’ I’d say its Neotokyo though, if you say anything about any other game or compare it to something you will get kicked or banned. It is even this way on the forums. >.>