The top three cyborg games on PC
- 8 years ago
This week we will start with Maria, who really dug back in time to find her cybernetic hero. Eventually picked out Mega Man, and the recent PC release of the Mega Man Legacy Collection.
This little bundle packaged together the first six of Capcom’s little Blue Bomber’s NES titles - which were released between 1987-1993 - and faithfully recreated them. You can experience each game with its classic 8-bit style, but all designed to look fresh and crisp on HD screens – removing any strange artifacts that may be experienced through up-resing.
The game’s in the bundle also faithfully reproduce the gameplay: in that it is punishingly hard. You can choose any of the six games to play, and keep throwing yourself against them with only your three lives to make it to the end – all the while knowing a single misstep could cost you a precious life.
One major new addition to this collection is the new Challenge mode. This mode takes all the levels, and remixes them in entirely new ways to challenge players both novice and veteran players. It is an entirely new mode that brings with it surprising challenges thanks to setting you different goals to achieve as you make your way through levels.
Put simply, challenge mode is crazy, and you’ll have to really struggle to complete levels. If you think original games were hard, wait till you give these a go.
All of which is why Maria gave this old-school bundle and 8/10
Editor Dani picked Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The name comes from Dues Ex Machina, which means God in a machine. A term that feels increasingly appropriate as you play through Human Revolution: with your character Adam Jensen becoming increasingly god like after gaining the most advanced cybernetic upgrade available.
He gains these powers in compensation for nearly dying during and incredibly hostile cooperate takeover of Sarif Industries, where he was the security chief.
But do these new powers grant power and liberty, or rob him of his essential humanity. It’s a philosophical question that dog Adam after having his upgrades forced upon him… but really who cares as you use his new found powers to punch through walls to take out enemies on the other side? Not comical enough? Well then you could always throw a vending machine at their head.
If force brute is not your style though, Adam does have other tools at his disposal. A clock system has you turn invisible for stealthy infiltration in combination with tranquilizer weapons. You can be the ultimate hacker – turning the enemies own tech against them, or simply learn the gift of the gab, manipulating peoples hormones to talk them into doing what you want.
All of this choice would be meaningless in a linear game though, so Deus Ex Human Revolution presents its action in open levels with plenty of opportunities and secrets. You won’t find everything the game has to offer the first time through.
That’s why Human Revolution is Dani’s favorite cyborg game: he likes to feel god like and manipulate the world to his will – (ask to move desk). Which is why he gave it a 9/10.
My personal choice of cyborg game is Syndicate. Not the original 1993 strategy game but the 2012 cyberpunk, first person shooter, fully wub wubbed experience. This overlooked action game was actually far more fun than people ever gave it credit for.
Set in dystopian future where the world encompassing megacorporation’s have taken over, wars are now business affairs, with more focus on the acquisition of corporate secrets and assets than out and out destruction.
You take control of the wonderfully futuristically named Miles Kilo, who has been upgraded with cybernetic implants that turn him into the perfect human infiltration unit. The pace is fast and frantic throughout, with solid shooting and a good range of suitably sci-fi weapons for you to use while tearing your way through its clean glass and neon, high-tech world.
But it is really Miles powers that set him apart as a cyborg. Most notably can remotely breach different tech from a distance, allowing him to tactically take control of items in the environment – and other chipped combatants – on the fly. This allows him to turn sentry guns on opponents, make guns back fire, and even persuade enemies to turn on their team before shooting themselves in the head.
Add to that a fantastic co-op mode – providing you can talk your friends into playing with you – and you have a gem cyborg of a game that many people missed the first time around. Making its 9/10 well deserved.
This little bundle packaged together the first six of Capcom’s little Blue Bomber’s NES titles - which were released between 1987-1993 - and faithfully recreated them. You can experience each game with its classic 8-bit style, but all designed to look fresh and crisp on HD screens – removing any strange artifacts that may be experienced through up-resing.
The game’s in the bundle also faithfully reproduce the gameplay: in that it is punishingly hard. You can choose any of the six games to play, and keep throwing yourself against them with only your three lives to make it to the end – all the while knowing a single misstep could cost you a precious life.
One major new addition to this collection is the new Challenge mode. This mode takes all the levels, and remixes them in entirely new ways to challenge players both novice and veteran players. It is an entirely new mode that brings with it surprising challenges thanks to setting you different goals to achieve as you make your way through levels.
Put simply, challenge mode is crazy, and you’ll have to really struggle to complete levels. If you think original games were hard, wait till you give these a go.
All of which is why Maria gave this old-school bundle and 8/10
Editor Dani picked Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The name comes from Dues Ex Machina, which means God in a machine. A term that feels increasingly appropriate as you play through Human Revolution: with your character Adam Jensen becoming increasingly god like after gaining the most advanced cybernetic upgrade available.
He gains these powers in compensation for nearly dying during and incredibly hostile cooperate takeover of Sarif Industries, where he was the security chief.
But do these new powers grant power and liberty, or rob him of his essential humanity. It’s a philosophical question that dog Adam after having his upgrades forced upon him… but really who cares as you use his new found powers to punch through walls to take out enemies on the other side? Not comical enough? Well then you could always throw a vending machine at their head.
If force brute is not your style though, Adam does have other tools at his disposal. A clock system has you turn invisible for stealthy infiltration in combination with tranquilizer weapons. You can be the ultimate hacker – turning the enemies own tech against them, or simply learn the gift of the gab, manipulating peoples hormones to talk them into doing what you want.
All of this choice would be meaningless in a linear game though, so Deus Ex Human Revolution presents its action in open levels with plenty of opportunities and secrets. You won’t find everything the game has to offer the first time through.
That’s why Human Revolution is Dani’s favorite cyborg game: he likes to feel god like and manipulate the world to his will – (ask to move desk). Which is why he gave it a 9/10.
My personal choice of cyborg game is Syndicate. Not the original 1993 strategy game but the 2012 cyberpunk, first person shooter, fully wub wubbed experience. This overlooked action game was actually far more fun than people ever gave it credit for.
Set in dystopian future where the world encompassing megacorporation’s have taken over, wars are now business affairs, with more focus on the acquisition of corporate secrets and assets than out and out destruction.
You take control of the wonderfully futuristically named Miles Kilo, who has been upgraded with cybernetic implants that turn him into the perfect human infiltration unit. The pace is fast and frantic throughout, with solid shooting and a good range of suitably sci-fi weapons for you to use while tearing your way through its clean glass and neon, high-tech world.
But it is really Miles powers that set him apart as a cyborg. Most notably can remotely breach different tech from a distance, allowing him to tactically take control of items in the environment – and other chipped combatants – on the fly. This allows him to turn sentry guns on opponents, make guns back fire, and even persuade enemies to turn on their team before shooting themselves in the head.
Add to that a fantastic co-op mode – providing you can talk your friends into playing with you – and you have a gem cyborg of a game that many people missed the first time around. Making its 9/10 well deserved.