Warframe will have you believe that is a space ninja simulator but it is so much more. I mean, if you want to play a space ninja, you can use the warframe Ash, grab a Nikana (this games katana) and some kunai and just sneak your way though. However, if you want to just run around killing with little worry about stealth, there are plenty of frames like Rhino who focus on taking damage and just keep killing. The idea is you are a warframe, a warrior from long ago. The one who saves you is the Lotus, a woman who helps the warframes with info on when alarms have been set off and helping coordinate various things. You also have your ships Cephalon, this worlds version of AIs, who is loyal to you, his operator, but is a bit broken. Saying things like, "Please return... covered in blood... safe and sound." Frames can be seen as your class, but you're not limited to only one. If you can own all and switch between missions to suit want you need. After you pick your starter frame (Protip: Pick Excalibur. He is the best starter frame and even is damn good in endgame stuff.) and get some starter weapons in the tutorial, you now have some simple quests to introduce you to your villains and the star chart.

First, your enemies. The first enemy you come across is the Grineer. A race of cloned people who have been cloned so many times, they are starting to degrade. They are loyal to the Twin Queens, with a few exceptions, and are ruthless. The Grineer tend to have big weapons and lots of armour. The next villains are the Corpus. The Corpus are business men who sell weapons and robots. They tend to fill their ranks with robots and soldiers with energy shields. They also have a unit called the nullifier. These guys make it so you can use your frames abilities while within its bubble. Also if you had any kind of buff before passing into the bubble, it goes away. Thankfully, you can just shoot the bubble till it pops and you can kill them or shoot the little drone on top of it to instant pop it. The last main enemy is the Infected. You have to go a few planets in before you meet them, but they are a living virus that corrupts things and turns them into mutant abominations. If you've played Starcraft, think Terrans that have been corrupted by the Zerg. These guys don't have any kind of fancy armour or shields, but they have numbers. Oh boy, do they have numbers. There is also an group of enemies called Sentients which you only learn about after a very important quest later on, and another group called the Corrupted but they are just more powerful versions of grinner and corpus that have been taken over by a tower. Trust me, it makes sense when you get there.

Now the part you have been waiting for. Since you are a ninja, you can wall run, you can slide around, you can do a move called a bullet jump. You move around like a bad ass ninja. Then you have the frames. There is a frame for every occasion. There are tanky frames like the mummy Inaros or Rhino. There are "caster" frames like Hydrioid, there are healers like Trinity, and many more. Then you have the weapons. This game has the normal guns and weapons. Assault rifle? The Braton. Burst rifle? Burston. Sword? We have everything from the short sword, the Skana, all the way to the buster sword style one, the Galatine. Then you have the slightly off weapons. The flamethrower called the Ignis, the auto shotgun called the Boar, and many more. The you get the weird stuff. A boomerang that disarms enemies, a saw blade launcher, a living weapon that fires electric beams, a literal ship cannon that can fire cannon balls or a shotgun style barrage. There are 99 primary weapons, 83 secondary weapons, and 121 melee weapons. And that's not even counting Archwing weapons, where you go into space combat with only a set of rocket powered "wings" and weapons larger then you. Also they add a new weapon every week or so.


So, mechanics time. The big way to advance in this game is mastery level. You gain XP in this by leveling frames and weapons. Higher mastery levels let you use more advance weapons. There are also Prime weapons that are better versions of regular weapons. You get prime parts from opening relics which the game explains when you start getting them. And with prime parts, we should ask the ever important question with F2P games. Is it pay to win? No. But it is pay to quicken and look good. Every frame and weapon can be bought for real money currency called "Platinum". However, every frame and weapons can also be gotten with in-game currency. However, for frames this usually means farming a certain boss till you get the 3 components need to build that frame. And for weapons, you will need resources you get by doing missions. Also, platinum can buy you various nick nacks for your ship, new color options to color your frame and weapons, weapons and warframe skins and helmets. All these items don't help you but are just there you make you look that much cooler. Now there one thing you do need platinum for. That is warframe and weapons slots. You only start with 9 weapons slots and 2 warframe slots. This is nowhere near enough. It might last you though the first 30 or so hours but eventually , you will want more and thankfully, there is a way to get them without paying money. Remember me talking about Prime parts? They are tradable and the only currency used in trading with other players is platinum. Farm some prime parts up and sell them to other players. Boom. You now have plat to buy those precious slots.

Overall would I suggest warframe. Hell yes. My playtime should tell you how much I love this game. It allows you to kill countless enemies any way to want. This is perfect "I'm angry and just want to kill LOTS of thing!" Try it out. It's a grand old time.

Update: 2018 and we now have 2 open world areas and is even more fun.

Warframe will have you believe that is a space ninja simulator but it is so much more. I mean, if you want to play a space ninja, you can use the warframe Ash, grab a Nikana (this games katana) and some kunai and just sneak your way though. However, if you want to just run around killing with little worry about stealth, there are plenty of frames like Rhino who focus on taking damage and just keep killing. The idea is you are a warframe, a warrior from long ago. The one who saves you is the Lotus, a woman who helps the warframes with info on when alarms have been set off and helping coordinate various things. You also have your ships Cephalon, this worlds version of AIs, who is loyal to you, his operator, but is a bit broken. Saying things like, "Please return... covered in blood... safe and sound." Frames can be seen as your class, but you're not limited to only one. If you can own all and switch between missions to suit want you need. After you pick your starter frame (Protip: Pick Excalibur. He is the best starter frame and even is damn good in endgame stuff.) and get some starter weapons in the tutorial, you now have some simple quests to introduce you to your villains and the star chart. First, your enemies. The first enemy you come across is the Grineer. A race of cloned people who have been cloned so many times, they are starting to degrade. They are loyal to the Twin Queens, with a few exceptions, and are ruthless. The Grineer tend to have big weapons and lots of armour. The next villains are the Corpus. The Corpus are business men who sell weapons and robots. They tend to fill their ranks with robots and soldiers with energy shields. They also have a unit called the nullifier. These guys make it so you can use your frames abilities while within its bubble. Also if you had any kind of buff before passing into the bubble, it goes away. Thankfully, you can just shoot the bubble till it pops and you can kill them or shoot the little drone on top of it to instant pop it. The last main enemy is the Infected. You have to go a few planets in before you meet them, but they are a living virus that corrupts things and turns them into mutant abominations. If you've played Starcraft, think Terrans that have been corrupted by the Zerg. These guys don't have any kind of fancy armour or shields, but they have numbers. Oh boy, do they have numbers. There is also an group of enemies called Sentients which you only learn about after a very important quest later on, and another group called the Corrupted but they are just more powerful versions of grinner and corpus that have been taken over by a tower. Trust me, it makes sense when you get there. Now the part you have been waiting for. Since you are a ninja, you can wall run, you can slide around, you can do a move called a bullet jump. You move around like a bad ass ninja. Then you have the frames. There is a frame for every occasion. There are tanky frames like the mummy Inaros or Rhino. There are "caster" frames like Hydrioid, there are healers like Trinity, and many more. Then you have the weapons. This game has the normal guns and weapons. Assault rifle? The Braton. Burst rifle? Burston. Sword? We have everything from the short sword, the Skana, all the way to the buster sword style one, the Galatine. Then you have the slightly off weapons. The flamethrower called the Ignis, the auto shotgun called the Boar, and many more. The you get the weird stuff. A boomerang that disarms enemies, a saw blade launcher, a living weapon that fires electric beams, a literal ship cannon that can fire cannon balls or a shotgun style barrage. There are 99 primary weapons, 83 secondary weapons, and 121 melee weapons. And that's not even counting Archwing weapons, where you go into space combat with only a set of rocket powered "wings" and weapons larger then you. Also they add a new weapon every week or so. So, mechanics time. The big way to advance in this game is mastery level. You gain XP in this by leveling frames and weapons. Higher mastery levels let you use more advance weapons. There are also Prime weapons that are better versions of regular weapons. You get prime parts from opening relics which the game explains when you start getting them. And with prime parts, we should ask the ever important question with F2P games. Is it pay to win? No. But it is pay to quicken and look good. Every frame and weapon can be bought for real money currency called "Platinum". However, every frame and weapons can also be gotten with in-game currency. However, for frames this usually means farming a certain boss till you get the 3 components need to build that frame. And for weapons, you will need resources you get by doing missions. Also, platinum can buy you various nick nacks for your ship, new color options to color your frame and weapons, weapons and warframe skins and helmets. All these items don't help you but are just there you make you look that much cooler. Now there one thing you do need platinum for. That is warframe and weapons slots. You only start with 9 weapons slots and 2 warframe slots. This is nowhere near enough. It might last you though the first 30 or so hours but eventually , you will want more and thankfully, there is a way to get them without paying money. Remember me talking about Prime parts? They are tradable and the only currency used in trading with other players is platinum. Farm some prime parts up and sell them to other players. Boom. You now have plat to buy those precious slots. Overall would I suggest warframe. Hell yes. My playtime should tell you how much I love this game. It allows you to kill countless enemies any way to want. This is perfect "I'm angry and just want to kill LOTS of thing!" Try it out. It's a grand old time. Update: 2018 and we now have 2 open world areas and is even more fun.