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The demo for Vanquish was recently realesed on the xbox live marketplace and I believe the PSN store. Vanquish is the most recent game developed by Sega, developers of hits like “House of the Dead” and less sucsessful titles like “Bayonneta”. Vanquish is a third-person shooter, it has basic TPS mechanics like a cover system and the ability to aim your gun in a “over the shoulder” view for accuracy. Suprisingly, the game’s controls feel very nice. There are a number of things you do in Vanquish. The most noticable thing is the ability to slide long distances with the assistance of a jet pack.

Vanquish puts you in the role of an American super soldier fighting a fictional war with the Russians in the distant future. The main protagonist (hero) is backed up by an army of American soldiers and robotic drones. The demo puts you in the middle of an intense battle aginst russian drones. At first I had no idea what was goign on, I didn’t even know that these people were Americans fighting Russians. So far, the plot lacks origonality, it is the typical Russia vs. America idea.

Besides the special powers at your disposial, the games doesn’t really add anything new. It is very basic shooting bad guys, although I like they idead of reviveing A.I. characters when they are wounded. I often felt outnumberd by enemies. But Vanquish is a fairly easy games, I played through the demo with zero deaths on medium difficulty, there is also an easy and hard difficulty. Hopefully the full, perfected game will be a little more challenging, but it’s fun to have a really easy game sometimes.

Overall Vanquish is a fairly impressive, I was not interested in it at first, but this demo makes me want to look at the full game when it comes out.