John Wick Chronicles Game Reviews
Mar 11, 2017 John Wick Chronicles VR Game Review John Wick VR Review Control resolution is one of those things you didn’t realize was interesting until somebody explained it. What it basically means is how many buttons you have to press to perform a certain action in a game. Most games have a low control resolution, you shoot a gun until it runs out of ammo, then you just press one button and you. John Wick 2 Tickets Are Part Of The New Humble Bundle. You'll also get Payday 2, Dead By Daylight, John Wick Chronicles, and the first John Wick movie.
John Wick Chronicles, the virtual reality game that ties into the John Wick film franchise, will be released Feb. 9 exclusively on Steam for the HTC Vive, Lionsgate and Starbreeze Studios announced today.That’s one day before, the sequel to 2014’s John Wick, hits theaters.
John Wick Chronicles is now for $19.99; pre-order customers will receive a free copy of Payday 2. Sly cooper thieves in time carmelita. The game is being co-developed by Starbreeze, Grab Games, Big Red Button and Gamecostudios.John Wick Chronicles takes place between the two films and allows you to step into the shoes of the titular assassin, who is played by Keanu Reeves in the movies.
It’s unclear if Reeves recorded voice-overs for John Wick Chronicles, but one person whose voice and likeness appear in the game is Lance Reddick. He plays Charon, the concierge at the Continental Hotel, who serves as a guide by speaking in your ear.Virtual reality is a perfect medium for shooters, and plenty of them are already available. But the intensity of John Wick Chronicles coupled with the room-scale experience offered by the HTC Vive makes for a heart-pounding exercise — and we mean exercise, since we got sweaty during a brief demo at New York Comic Con last October. Who’s in more danger, us or him? Starbreeze StudiosIn the segment we played, we took an elevator up from the lobby of the Continental Hotel to the penthouse suite, where things quickly got out of hand. Laser sights from enemy rifles pierced the room, forcing us to duck — in real life — to avoid the bullets that soon came through the windows.
We pawed at the floor until we pressed a button to activate a secret elevator behind us, then crawled into it and escaped to the roof.Unfortunately, the situation wasn’t much safer up there. Enemies started firing at Mr. Wick — first from across the rooftop, and then from other buildings. As if that weren’t enough to deal with, armored thugs began climbing up onto the roof and coming directly at us, sometimes even from behind. Besieged from all sides, the only way we were able to survive was to keep moving from cover to cover.
A crate of ever-respawning weapons, including a submachine gun and a sniper rifle, did help.Well, until the helicopter arrived, anyway.By the end of the demo, we were huffing and puffing and starting to sweat — which might say more about our personal level of fitness than John Wick Chronicles itself. You can find out for yourself next month if you have an HTC Vive.
Is out now and it's a worthy follow up to the original’s excellent gunplay: “stunning fights, relentless action and a super-cool Keanu” says our review. Actually being John Wick, though, would be bad, and likely end in sucking chest wounds and smelling bakingSo how about we round up some games that capture that John Wick feel without the threat of blood loss and holes where there should not be holes? Most of these focus on one thing: slick gun fights.
These are games that make you feel like a top of the food chain assassin, capable of taking on entire crime syndicates and winning. Plus you’ll just look damn good doing it. We could never actually be Wick, but we can dream. Max Payne 3PS3, Xbox 360, PCMax Payne 3 is one of the purest expressions of John Wick’s ‘looking good while shooting stuff’ idea. It totally nails a professional mastery of gunplay, with nearly every level playing out like scene from the movie - one man with two pistols against impossible odds, killing everyone in showers of broken glass and bodies. Even the settings are right as you destroy nightclubs, warehouses and offices.
Plus, during the flashback sections with a younger Payne you can almost kind of convince yourself it really is Keanu a little bit. Call of Juarez: GunslingerPS3, Xbox 360, PCOkay, the time period’s off a little with its Wild West setting, but the dual wielding gun skills are all there.
Plus it’s a story of revenge, so totally John Wick in that respect. There’s a great set of weapons to play with as well as bullet time, and dodging, abilities to make you feel like an almost supernaturally talented gunman. It’s also just a great game, with a fourth wall breaking story, as the main character’s unreliable narrator explains the plot while you’re actually playing. GTA 5 (in first person)PS4, Xbox One, PCThe main reason GTA 5 makes such a good John Wick game in first person is it really makes the guns the star. You are Wick and, providing you’ve got the skills to match, you can mow down thugs and cops alike in your own personal ‘Holy shit I’m cool’ simulator.
And, because it’s GTA you’ve basically got a massive sandbox to recreate the entire movie in. However, if you really want to see Keanu’s face and get some third person Wick action, then you can easily in the character creator for GTA Online.Hitman: AbsolutionPS3, Xbox 360, PCAbsolution might not be the most popular Hitman game but it played around with one great feature - a point shooting mode that let you tag a string of enemies and take them all down in one glorious sequence of gunplay. Its sheer room clearing satisfaction makes it a totally Wick-ish guilty pleasure, and the American set game even has a glorious Continental style hotel to practice in. It’s also got some great suits, if not the hair.
Hotline MiamiPS4, PS3, Vita, PCThis hyper violent top down shooter is probably one of the purest expressions of a John Wick fight scene: one man against many, with lots of guns and blood. True, its difficulty and rinse/repeat style of bludgeoning your way through levels might not initially seem as cool as Wick, but those moments when you nail it - sailing through impossible odds on nothing but instinct and reactions - is the stuff of dreams, and a rush like nothing else. StrangleholdPS3, Xbox 360, PCYou could think of this as John Wick with doves. No idea why they’re there; director John Woo, who worked on the game, just likes them.
In the same way as Max Payne this has a very Wick theme at its core - one man with great gun skills clears room after room of bad guys in the coolest ways possible. As well as acrobatics, this fits in some of the Hard Boiled movie’s crazier ideas like sliding down banisters or along hostess trolleys. The entire game is basically built as a shooty playground to have fun in. SuperhotXbox One, PCAbstract?
Amazingly cool? Superhot’s unique mechanic is that time only moves when you do, meaning you can stop in a cloud of bullets to think about your next move. It creates almost Matrix-esque battles as you duck and weave between gunfire to take out your enemies. Few things are as satisfying as throwing your empty gun in an bad guy's face, grabbing their weapon as they drop it and then shooting them with it. Payday 2PS4, Xbox One, PCActually having John Wick in your game is cheating a little bit but totally still counts. These DLC packs (which are only available on Steam for PC) introduce Wick as a playable character, along with two new heists to pull off and a weapons pack.
In keeping with his movie roots, the Payday 2 character is a Hitman class, specialising in close up and ranged combat, and introduces the ability to dual wield his Chimano Compact pistols. Nintendogs3DSOkay, no cool shooting or suits here but we all know John Wick would have been a lot happier if the puppy had lived. And I’m sure we’d all rather he had the dog back than murdering his way through an entire Russian crime gang.So let’s replace this:With this:Then nobody has to die and everyone gets puppies.