LASERS Review (Steam)

For this LASERS Review, a brutally hard multiplayer game about surviving deadly laser mazes. Only one player can win. Will it be us? If you have ever seen the Resident Evil movie then you kind of know what is coming!

LASERS Review Pros:

  • Nice graphics.
  • 1.4GB download size.
  • Steam achievements.
  • Free to play.
  • Opening replayable tutorial.
  • Graphics settings – quality preset, fullscreen, resolution, fps limit, v-sync, and motion blur.
  • Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, remap controls, and how sprint and crouch work.
  • Can remap keyboard and mouse controls including Invert axis and sensitivity sliders.
  • Profanity filtering option.
  • Laser dodging and racing to the finish gameplay.
  • Gory over-the-top deaths from lasers.
  • In-game text chat.
  • Three ways to play – public, custom games, and single-player.
  • Emote wheel.
  • Basic character choice – nine initial character models with fourteen to buy.
  • Emotes can be bought and edited into the emote wheel.
  • Simple controls.
  • Lasers can require you to jump, crouch, or crawl past them.
  • Blood can be turned on and off.
  • Aside from dodging lasers you also get balance beams to cross.
  • 24 level layouts.
  • Single-player lets you choose rounds, timers, and levels.
  • Custom game has the same options as single player along with a region setting.
  • The join game code can be set on custom games.
  • The public has a server browser, to create games and quickly join.
  • Game show-style voice guy.
  • An alright soundtrack.
  • Excellent with friends.
  • Earn halos to buy characters and emotes.

LASERS Review Cons:

  • Die anywhere in the tutorial and you have to start back at the beginning.
  • Animations can look a bit weird at times.
  • Small online numbers.
  • The in-app purchases are really expensive and not worth it.
  • Little replay value out of the multiplayer.
  • The levels are all self-contained and have no cohesion.
  • It doesn’t lean hard enough into the game show angle.
  • No way to have the timer on your Hud at all times.
  • Not enough in terms of rewards.

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LASERS:

Official website.

Developer: Straight Back Games

Publisher: Straight Back Games

Store Links –

Steam

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!

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