July 12, 2016
Kill Strain
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July 12, 2016
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Summary
Kill Strain is a top-down, competitive twin-stick action shooter with a monumental twist where three teams are pitted against each other for domination. Featuring innovative 5v5v2 gameplay, two teams of five players battle to contain-and-control a mysterious and powerful energy source codenamed 'The Strain' that has been discovered in research facilities. The humans are not alone in these remote locations, as two additional players take on the roles of mutants. Endowed with additional abilities when in contact with 'TheStrain', the mutant team wreaks havoc on the humans to spread 'The Strain' further on the field; turning humans into mutants along the way and creating a more powerful force.
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Critic Reviews8
Kill Strain has a lot of cool ideas, but many of them don't translate when mired by the sluggish pacing of each round. I think it definitely needs some further optimization, but the uneven fun factor between the Merc and Mutant camps may take longer to iron out.
August 5, 2016
Despite its attractive idea of teams in initial numerical disadvantage to force an imbalance, Kill Strain is a game where you have only a sense of fun playing like beasts.
July 20, 2016
It would be hard to say that Kill Strain isn’t at least ambitious. The game was a studio’s first outing in a relatively immature genre, which attempted to take a dramatically different approach to many of core mechanics that define MOBAs. Though carefully calculated, these risks fall flat in execution, resulting in a confusing and joyless experience.
July 20, 2016