![]() ![]() Still, it serves its purpose, which is to see you engage in a succession of underwater dogfights in your DSF craft. The four leads (who can be controlled by other players in cooperative multiplayer) are pretty bland, a fact not helped by the painfully wooden voice performances meant to bring them to life. ![]() ![]() While the framework is cool and unique enough to remain engaging, the actual plot is fairly rote – and the characters just aren’t all that likeable. Recruited by the mercenary captain of a huge submarine, Kaelan and the other three survivors find themselves in conflict with a destructive, pseudo-religious faction led by the enigmatic Nemo. You play Kaelan, primarily, a “Cryo” who has been in stasis since the failure of “Project Nammu”, an initiative that might have granted humanity a second chance on the surface. It’s set in a far future world where humanity has been driven to living beneath the sea thanks to a globally-destructive war. It turns out I didn’t need to remember or to have played the original game from almost 20 years ago. While I struggled a little to engage for the first hour or so, after a while I kind of found myself sinking into it, and in the end I think the simplicity is what did it for me. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the simple-yet-exciting FPS gameplay and the intriguing world. I have to admit to knowing very little about the franchise before going into Aquanox: Deep Descent, and I wasn’t expecting a lot from the title.
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