All Walls Must Fall PC review: A time-travel adventure set to techno tunes

All Walls Must Fall

All Walls Must Fall is a techno-tactics game that allows you lot to hop into the boots of hush-hush agents who can travel through time. Throw in some seriously practiced music, excellent visuals, and unique mechanics, and you lot've got quite the strategy precious stone coming out of Steam Early Admission on PC.

All Walls Must Fall

The story commences in Berlin, Nov 2089, where the Common cold State of war never concluded. For more than than a decade both parties take used time travel for espionage, but now they're scrambling to ship agents back in time to find out who'south planning to launch a nuclear strike and crusade worldwide chaos. This is where yous, the player, comes into play past direct decision-making agents sent back in time. Everything takes identify on a unmarried night and fourth dimension is quite literally of the essence.

All Walls Must Fall makes utilize of a unique mechanic for motility and combat. Game time progresses when y'all perform an activeness, but you lose time resource every second. This invaluable resource is used to perform actions, go dorsum in time to avert shots taken and chat failures, as well equally interact with objects to make your mission a piddling easier. This makes it and so you lot're always because the next move and attempting to brand the best apply of available time.

All Walls Must Fall makes you lot constantly move and consider options.

Deportment can lead you lot to accept down enemies on sight or hide in shadows and hack into diverse objects to progress towards the mission goal. How y'all go virtually each mission depends on your playstyle and how much time resources is available, which is mainly collected past exploring the map. Everything shown on screen is displayed in an isometric view, and y'all have full control of the camera with some quick keyboard shortcuts.

The UI does a skillful job relaying all the information you demand to glance at, and the game introduces various mechanics to y'all with quick-burn tutorial prompts. It's a well-refined experience that feels highly-polished with attractive visuals and effective temper generation. The added benefit is information technology's based in a cyberpunk techno world with procedurally-built clubs, missions and a campaign to explore and savor.

Movement to the beat

All Walls Must Fall

Sporting tracks from various talented artists similar Ben Prunty (Faster Than Low-cal) and Mona Mur (Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days), information technology's hard non to motion effectually a mission and enjoy the trounce in the background. The techno tracks fuse perfectly with the cyberpunk setting and neon lights, bringing the nightlife in a Cold War Berlin to a whole new level.

Movement is a bizarre combination of real-time and plow-based, but information technology works surprisingly well once you lot get the hang of hotkeys. Time resource allows for handy abilities to exist used, including going back in time a few steps to avert that death shot you accidentally received. And when you're not grooving away and taking downwards foes, the available progression system allows for credits to be spent on weapons, upgrades and additional abilities.

All Walls Must Fall

Powered by the Unreal four Engine, I experienced no operation issues, nor did I encounter any problems with the game. For an Early Admission release, that's quite the event. The only negative I had coming abroad from my peak secret time-traveling adventure was the camera, which at times tin leave you hanging past obstructing the view to important objectives or making decisions based on all factors at mitt.

An issue that may announced for some players (especially those seeking a rogue-like game, which this is not) is the gainsay is relatively easy once you lot get the hang of things and take plenty fourth dimension resources to avoid damage. There are parts where multiple enemies get in a slight challenge, but overall it's more about getting through quickly, without taking a hit. I would have also liked to have seen a fog-of-war mechanic of sorts implemented, adding to the difficulty.

Ending the common cold war

All Walls Must Fall

It's easy to see what games inspired All Walls Must Autumn — think Superhot and X-Com — but developer inbetweengames managed to craft a unique setting and story that invites the role player on a time-bending take chances through the Berlin nightlife in 2089. Implementing a time-sensitive system that forces you to make quick decisions and consider future actions on the spot, it'due south like shooting fish in a barrel to selection up but hard to master without a lot of practice.

Pros:

Great cyberpunk atmosphere.
Excellent soundtrack.
Unique gainsay and dialog mechanics.
Solid performance.

Cons:

Camera tin can be obscuring at times.
Difficulty isn't loftier.

All Walls Must Autumn is a must-buy for whatsoever strategy game fan, especially at the cost of $nine.99.

This review was conducted using a copy provided by the programmer on a Windows 10 PC with an Intel Core i5-6600K CPU, GTX 1070 GPU, and 16 GB of RAM.

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