![]() The inept A.I.-controlled teammates don’t begin to behave according to their badass character traits, instead opting to group up in the same piece of cover far away from the fight. Without three other human players to back you up, though, Fuse falls apart completely. Weapons are where Fuse really comes into its own – blowing up burning groups, unloading on a sniper from behind a shield, and ganging up on crystallized robots is a lot of fun when you’re laughing alongside the annihilating force that is your Overstrike 9. (It is, hands down, my favorite gun of the lot, because it makes Jacob the most effective combatant of 'em all). Jacob’s delightful crossbow creates remote mines out of magma bolts, allowing him to melt his enemies individually or in groups. (She's a terrific mix of quiet and loud, and succeeds at both.) Izzy can crystalize enemies with her Fuse bullets, freezing them in place (the least climactic skill in Overstrike 9's arsenal). (Tactical players should love looking out for their friends with him.) Cloaking as Naya lets her get the drop on enemies before using the Warp Rifle to transform men into explosive black holes. Dalton’s protective Magshield is a great piece of mobile cover for his teammates, and also acts as a shotgun with a barrel the size of a barn door. ![]() Each has a tactical purpose tailored to different play styles, and when a coordinated co-op team uses them together, Fuse’s standard stop-and-pop cover shooting graduates to a boisterous bit of strategic action. Oh, and those aliens? They’re never seen, heard from, or spoken of – so why do they exist in this story at all? At least the guns are cool, regardless of their confusing origins. From there, the story devolves into killing everything until the evil terrorists can’t terrorize anymore. Insomniac only bothers to give the basics of its origins in a pop-up menu. For example, Fuse, an alien substance that melds with human technology to create impressively destructive weapons, seems to be a known quantity in this universe. ![]() Clarity of purpose as a whole is a big problem, because Fuse doesn’t feel the need to let you know much at all about its story. It’s a jarring and confusing tonal imbalance – perhaps commiserating about dating problems is how this team copes with nuking an enemy-occupied island, but Fuse spends so little time exploring or developing its main characters that it’s hard to buy into them or their ambiguous motivations. In the blink of an eye, expect Fuse’s cast to careen from witty one-liners and jovial jokes to gouging men’s eyes out, painting entire rooms with enemy blood, and generally murdering in morbid fashion. ![]() Play Each of them brings heavy backstory baggage to the battlefield, but while their dark pasts define their violent efficiency, they clash with their uplifting sense of humor. ![]()
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