Full Game Reviews
Rating of
2/5
Good Idea, Bad Execution
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 06/19/2014
“Loadout” is the type of game I would normally never take a second look at. It’s an arena-style Third-Person Shooter deathmatch with no offline mode and no single-player mode. Yet the developer, Edge of Reality, heavily advertised one aspect of the game that I feverishly desire in a shooter: Weapon customization. Thus I found myself pulled into the Free to Play world of “Loadout,” but my stay wasn’t a long one.
Presentation
Unlike most modern shooters, “Loadout” doesn’t feature a super-realistic, dark ‘n gritty aesthetic. Instead, the game revels in its cartoony nature with plenty of bright colors and an gratuitously grotesque character design mentality. There are only three playable characters in the game, a relatively normal Latino man, a not-quite-racist Black …
