Hard Reset is an action-packed, single-player shooter. Set in a beautifully realized cyberpunk city, it emphasizes over-the-top destruction and gives you a large variety of weapons to dispatch hordes of enemies. Featuring a cyberpunk plot that drawis inspiration from William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Philip K. Dick, especially Blade Runner and Screamers. The world as we know it ceased to exist. Humanity is at the verge of extinction, living in the last closed city of Bezoar. Mankind wages war against the machines controlling vast areas of what became the 'Barrens'. Machines want to control and assimilate 'The Sanctuary' a network that holds billions of digitalized human minds. Our hero, Maj. Fletcher, is a soldier of CLN - a corporation combat unit, established to protect the city. Machines are constantly assaulting the walls of Bezoar. Fletcher moves in when Bezoar's protective barrier is breached.
I think this is the direction games should go into. Fast paced with a variety of weapon combos to reduce enemies into pieces.
Not to mention the graphics are breath taking in some instances, but we all know thats not what this baby is about.
But to be honest its not nearly as good as Painkiller, there just to finicky stuff here. While it takes the horrid shared ammunition of Deus Ex IW, your always finding ammo so it never becomes a problem really. You get to upgrade yourself and your weapons but mostly its used to unlock the rest of the weapons. Theres nothing special here upgrades wise so it kind of feels a bit generic.
The main issue for me is the lack of enemies, the game just becomes boring quickly fighting the same enemies. Also there are 10 weapons but they are all represented by the 2 guns that shape shift slightly into the next gun... which seems very cookie cutter IMO.
Guns and Enemies is supposed to be the advantage of this kind of game, beside providing tons of action. So I can't really give it any higher than 8 for the lack of content.
There is a addon released that adds 6 new enemies, but you have to wade through the main game first before you get to fight them. So I'm not sure whether its worth or not.
The Story just provides you the moral right to kick ***.