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SteamGassyMexican's videoDouble Action: Boogaloo is the most over-the-top action movie one can imagine, dripping with bullet time scenes... In game form. Take control of one of three (three!) characters with seven weapons (or your fists) to choose from, pick your trait out of five, and get killin'.
That's it, in a nutshell, although you do have a bit more to help you in the fight. At any point, you can dive, slide, or jump up and off walls. All of these maneuvers make it harder to get shot, which is certainly an advantage. Landing hits on your opponents when doing these actions will earn you Style points, which is the overall score on which the winner is chosen - kills don't matter if you don't gain the Style points to beat your opponents.
Additionally, you can gain time on your bullet time clock that you can activate at any point, which triggers slow-motion for the entire server for as many seconds as you have. Gaining one or two seconds in a life is common enough, although there is a trait that causes you to immediately gain three seconds once you fill the Style meter. Bullet time is important because of the aforementioned maneuvers that can be performed which makes shooting opponents tricky, to say the least.
The game is played in first or third person (it can be changed at will) and there is no such thing as "teams" in this world - it's a constant, fast-paced free-for-all. Playing on a server with a high number of people and standing in place for too long will most likely result in your death.
At certain points in a game, "side missions" might open up. These missions might be to kill the current player with the highest Style, or to recover a briefcase and take it to a certain position, or a race. Completing this mission will earn the player a nice chunk of Style, although it can be hard. Don't expect the constant firefights to lag because of these missions, though.
Warning: this game is ridiculous. It's a game inspired by silly action movies filled with over-the-top moves and badasses, like the game Stranglehold. It even has the doves suddenly erupting from people in the middle of a fight. Diving off a building and unloading dual Colts into a firefight is par for the course. It's also extremely fast-paced. If you dislike either or both of these things, you won't like this, because that is almost the game in its entirety.
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Topic: Double Action: Boogaloo - Free Multiplayer Action Movie Shooter (Read 1190 times)