I would say these lairs make up roughly 50% of the game’s content, which is far too much. Lairs are dungeons where you go into a similar-looking area to blow up equipment, hack computers, and kill a miniboss. The worst case of overused content are the Lairs. However, that Hate Machine you just blew up in the open world is gonna take the same strategy to blow up in the mission. Many of the sidequests on the map end up being repurposed into story missions, with a bit more dialogue and unique locations to spice them up. At that halfway point, you begin to see the issue: there’s very little mission variety. With enjoyable combat, a wealth of interlocking systems and satisfying progression, Agents of Mayhem feels fresh until about halfway through.
Every sidequest has some kind of guaranteed reward and a chance at receiving some rare part. Every treasure chest has cash or gadgets that feed into the cycle of improving your characters and your home base. Volition knows, perhaps better than any other open-world game developer, how to make you feel like you are always progressing in the game.
This game ends up having way more interlocking systems than the average open-world game, and I found it difficult to put down because I was always a few minutes away from unlocking something new. I’m not even mentioning the challenge room, “Global Conflict” mission that allows you to send out team members on standby to gather materials, and leveling up your base to grant passive upgrades to all characters.
Those are just the combat systems though. Each character levels individually, and you can choose between 15 difficulty levels that grant better XP & cash rewards based on how high you turn up the knob. There are 25 different Gremlin Techs to use, and you can swap between them at any time.Įach teammate can attach mods to their their special attack, weapon, and passive skill. You can use “Gremlin Tech”, which gives you a limited-time buff to take out enemies more quickly. There are 16 status effects that you can inflict on enemies, or be inflicted with. Some weapons are better at taking down blue energy shields, while some are better at taking down targets with hard armor. In combat, you’ll be managing your teammates health, as they can recover shield but only regenerate health slowly while tagged out. Then it adds several layers of complexity. The third-person shooter basics are there, and will feel familiar immediately.
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