Dead End City Review (PlayStation 5)
Dead End City Review, Civilization has fallen and the few remaining survivors are now the playthings of a gang of post-apocalyptic punks called Scorpio. Your little slice of heaven was raided and your loved ones have been carried off to Scorpio’s stronghold. With nothing left to lose, you head out onto the open road, armed to the teeth and ready to fight through their territory to bring an end to their reign.
Dead End City Review Pros:
- Decent graphics.
- 184.4MB download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
- Game settings – bullet color, volumes, scan lines, player HUD, game intro, and tate mode.
- Shmup gameplay.
- Online leaderboards.
- How to play section is text and images and acts as a game manual.
- Excellent in-game cutscenes and interaction.
- Decent upbeat soundtrack.
- Three game modes – arcade, score attack, and highway.
- The arcade mode is the traditional experience.
- Highway is a two-minute run mode and your special shots use fuel, not ammo.
- Two difficulties – normal and hard.
- A cool aesthetic going for a Mad Max kind of style.
- You drive a car around and shoot enemies in their vehicles even when they are on foot.
- Combo counter.
- Earn and shoot off special shots.
- At the end of life, you get a breakdown and you earn a percentage of your score as gold.
- Gold is used to buy new menu items and game modes in the shop.
- Five overall characters to play as, only one is available at the start.
- Collect ammo and petrol from enemies.
- The awards section is just the in-game trophies version of the PlayStation trophies.
- Purchase in the shop can be optional, if you do what the unlock criteria is then you get the unlock as a reward.
- Unlock Gallery unlocks.
- Easy to learn controls and gameplay loop.
- Three-letter initial leaderboard entry.
Dead End City Review Cons:
- You cannot see the controls or manual when in the game.
- The criteria to unlock characters are ridiculously hard.
- The movement and how small the play area is does take some time.
- Cannot rebind controls.
- Shows a load of cutscenes but then doesn’t go anywhere story-wise.
- I can’t put my finger on it but it’s missing something to elevate it, it just feels flat.
- A huge grind to earn gold to buy new characters and modes.
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Dead End City:
Developer: Pixel Licker
Publisher: Eastasiasoft
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