It tries to be a cool game but it's ruined by what the dev's think are cool mechanics that sets them apart. Reload is awful. Just ♥♥♥ sad. You have to press E to eject the mag, then press R to reload the mag, and then press R again to get a quicker reload. Then after you fire two rounds your weapon jams and you must press R 6 or 7 times to un-jam it. Several different classes that are mostly dumb and boring to play. Nothing is explained. You pick up a weapon and suddenly you have no life. Upgrades are random. Mostly worthless. One life, play till you die. *Yawn* So just do the same thing over and over and over and over. Hahaha, yea I get it. Played out way to get people in that idiot loop. Most good upgrades and loadout items are hidden behind a paywall.

- THE MOST HORRIBLE MULTIPLAYER LOBBY EVER!! Me and my friend tried both to start lobbies with and without password. But to enter a password you need to hoover your mousepointer with the gamepad on the "Enter password line" but you cant klick it with a gamepad and only works with a leftmouseklick. And when you manage to connect it says "Player left the game" about the host.

- Only way to exit the game is through ALT+F4

ITS UTTERLY GARBAGE AND IMPOSSIBLE TO PLAY ONLINE DU TO INCOMPETENT CODING!!



But if you can set this aside and only think of it and see it as a singleplayer It can be fun.

So this review below is based on the arena version of the same game:
This the finest tactical games I have ever played on PC, it´s a must buy if you appriceate to strife for having solid teamwork together with a friend in a very challengin game where you can put more difficulty in it when you want. I´ve only encountered this high quality gaming in terms of tactical gaming in SWAT 4, Gauntlet and Magicka.

Synthek arena is the free version, so I can only base it on this and not on the full game even though I think it´s very similar.

ATMOSPHERE
If you ever seen the Pat labor anime you will get that complete feel of nice gunfights in a sci-fi enviroment.

COMBAT
When me and my friend 777 played our first game I run out of bullets for my SMG so I used my tactical shield and move forward to them to lure them at shooting at me, enemies where also using tactical shields, Meanhile 777 flanked them and shot them from behind or in the side.

You can also make a quick dash if you need to fast move away (Stamina based), stealth is also an option that we haven´t tried yet.

DEATH
I personally very much like that when you die you are dead, it seems when youré friend died you need to go into a special location to revive them much like in Left4dead2 which makes the game get harder if it happens in a bad time.

SOUND/MUSIC
Didn´t think about it.

INTERFACE
A bit odd, If I start the game with a controller, I cant actually name my Multiplayer server, so you have to press ALT+F4 to quite the game since there is no end to main menu button. Then start the game again without touching the gamepad, then choose WITH the mouse multiplayer, click lobby and name it and set password. Then when you are in your mp gamelobby you can connect your gamepad and when you and your friend both are ready press the button start the game up.

SIMILAR TOO:

My favorites:
SWAT 4, 1-8player SWAT tactical FPS
Gauntlet, 1-4player Sword/magic tactical
Hive jump, 1-4player 2d tactical
Helldivers, 1-4player tactical
Barony, 1-4 player tactical fps fantasy
Jydge , 2player tactical
Shadowgrounds, 1-4player tactical
Elevator action 2 ( Arcade or MAME(arcade emulation)
Doorkickers action squad, 2d, in terms of tactical aspects

Others:
Broforce 1-4player tactical
Survivor squad
Breach clear Deadline
Resident evil 5-6, 1-2player FPS zombie tactical
Contagion 1-4 player FPS zombie tactical
Magicka, Sword/magic 1-4player tactical
Angry arrows 1-4player tactical
Alien swarm: Reactive drop
Killing floor 1 1-8 fps tactical
Alien breed 1-2 ( AMiGA)
Chaos engine ( AMiGA)
Skeleton crew ( AMiGA)
Escape from the planet of the robot monsters (AMiGA)

Not so fun:
A-gents

pretty fun game to play with people. solo is probably fun as well but im a co-op gamer.