
Even when you get blindsided, you’ll be inspired to use portals in a new way on your next try. The weapons are satisfying, movement tight, aiming precise, and it all just feels so fair. If you’re smart enough, you can get the drop on your enemy, mow them down, and escape back to safety when a direct engagement would’ve ended with you biting the dust. Positioning is always a key factor in FPS games, but this new level of dimension and strategy that portals bring to the genre makes tactics even more important than quick reflexes. While most shooter experiences will live or die based on how fast you can nail a headshot, Splitgate evens the playing field a bit with the portal mechanic. Portals can only be placed on specific surfaces, so you can’t spam them anywhere to get yourself out of a bad situation.

That concept alone would make this game worth a look, but once you actually feel how good this game is to play, you’ll stick around for match after match. This is a fast-paced, arena-based shooter where you and everyone else can create portals to flank, reposition, and zip around the map. Extra weapons such as rocket launchers and machine guns can be collected en route.Splitgateadvertises itself as “Halo meets Portal,” and that’s easily the best way to describe the game. You have knives and grenades, but using the latter alerts the enemy as to your presence, making life harder. Touch each hostage you find to free them. Find strategic positions from which to attack. You move up the screen, taking out enemies – these respawn, so there is no value in not moving upwards as quickly as possible. Ocean's interpretation of his challenge recreates Commando fairly closely. This being Hollywood, chances are that he will succeed. His orders are to simply capture photographic evidence of the war crimes taking place, but after finding a close friend tied up, he decides to wipe them all out by himself. Tough Vietnam veteran John Rambo is called back into action after some soldiers are taken hostage in a PoW camp.
