You start off weak but get progressively more powerful - which kept my interest till the end. To start off with you only have a wrench and a gun and that's pretty much it, but by the end of the game you become near indestructible with a plasma cannon on one arm, claws, shields and the ability to take over enemies to make them fight for you. It plays somewhat like 'The Suffering' - or at least feels like it. Expecting an underwhelming generic shooter, I was actually surprised to find a pretty rewarding game. Using human weapons and new deadly abilities you will cut through hordes of aliens to acquire a cure for this mutation, and recover lost memories.Īfter hearing so much bad things about this budget title I was intrigued enough to see if such claims were true. Desperate to uncover the truth behind your genetic mutations, you battle the aliens while slowly losing your humanity. You take control of an infected soldier fighting his way through the alien infestation that has overrun the planet. MorphX is an action packed Third Person Shooter, telling the story of mankind’s struggle for survival in a city infested with aliens. Boss battles will feature building-sized adversaries that will require as much wit as physical dexterity to overcome and emerge victorious. Played from a 3rd person perspective, the events of MorphX unfold in a fully realised 3D representation of the Russian capital, where players must fight through a demolished Red Square and on the steps of a battle scarred Kremlin. As well as guns, grenades and other more traditional weaponry, players will be able to absorb the DNA of fallen enemies to assimilate superior alien abilities and technologies, at the cost of their humanity.

Unstoppable Rage: One of your alien abilities.In a world where humans are forced to scurry in the ruined subways and sewers of a futuristic Moscow devastated by attempted alien genocide, MorphX tells the story of the human resistance against their newly imposed masters.

Shout-Out: The minigun wielding Terminator creature can be nothing but a shoutout to Terminator.

Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: See Hoist by his own petard.

These genetic puzzles can be re-arranged at any time, which is helpful when you acquire more connectors, thus allowing you to connect more genes to further enhance your abilities. The amount of activated genes of each kind determined what property of an ability is enhanced, such as red for health and green for energy.

Mini-Game: Ability upgrading takes the form of a puzzle minigame, where you connect red and green genes with differently shaped connectors (Which you get more of from collectibles hidden throughout the levels) to activate them.

Replenished by absorbing the biomass of defeated swarm creatures. Mana Meter: For using your alien abilities.

Insectoid Aliens: The Parasite, Detector and Gunner Swarm creatures.A freak mutation resulted in him keeping his humanity though, and with his alien powers, he managed to win a decisive victory against the swarm Hoist by His Own Petard: You are an infiltrator, created by the swarm overmind to find human hideouts and kill all survivors.Gatling Good: Courtesy of the Terminator swarm creature.With no choice but to kill to survive, you set out to find out what you are and what your purpose is. Swarm creatures attack you on sight, as do the human soldiers you come across, while calling you an infiltrator. You wake up in an alien hive, with no memory of how you got there. There the survivors work tirelessly to stop this new threat. Some believe they are the products of experiments the swarm has done on humans, while some believe it's the first of a new generation of swarm adapted to life on Earth.Ģ012, one of mankind's last bastions dubbed 'The Laboratory', resides beneath the ruins of Moscow. Meanwhile, sightings of strange humanoid creatures are reported, their purpose unknown. The year is now 2011, and mankind is still fighting to survive. During 2009, the Swarm directed its effort to locate and wipe out the few remaining pockets of resistance. Within the year, they had complete control of earth and had wiped out most of mankind. In 2008, Earth was invaded by the alien swarm.

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