Now combine that with an unhealthy amount of 80’s action movie cheesiness and over the top action and you’ve got yourself The Showdown Effect. Listen – it’s not that hard – Imagine Worms in real-time, on crack and add character customization and unlocks inspired by those oh-so-common modern shooters. Online action 80’s and weapons? Buzzword bingo! Wait what?! The game is set in an 80’s action move setting and features high paced action, dynamic environments, cool gimmicks and powerful weapons with an 80’s clichéd twist.

For now, The Showdown Effect is just one more very good, very dead indie multiplayer game.The Showdown Effect (TSE) is an online action game for the PC/Mac. The Steam store page is no more, and the only people who can play are those that already own it. Your victim will get up and and be absolutely fine, but you will look very cool.

If you're the character with a jetpack, you can dive into someone as you activate your rocket, and zoom across most of the map.

You can leap at someone when they're at the top of a lift shaft, then ride their body safely to the ground. axe.Įven when you're not chewing up the scenery, fights exude John Wick energy. A pillow might become an impromptu shield, while a mounted medieval axe becomes an impromptu. You do start with weapons, but it's far more fun to fight with random objects. The best way of picturing it is to imagine that scene from John Wick 3 where they crash into a knife emporium (or something) and start chucking knives at each other. It has some clever ideas that create very funny moments. It's a straight up deathmatch, where you're trying to dive, stab or shoot your way to the top of the leaderboard. The Showdown Effect is what action movies would look like if they were multiplayer platform fighters. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.

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