Tsunami 2265 Demo

Regardless of the reasons it got to be so, Japan is well-known for their affinity toward giant robots armed to the teeth, even if they barely have any real ones to show  for it after so many years. However, their animated TV series are oozing with metal monsters and transforming mechs, so it’s no wonder that these machines are the first thing people think about when they envision Japan.

Tsunami 2265 is may not be developed by a Japanese company, but it certainly has a similar system of beliefs when it comes to the face of the future in that part of the world. In essence, this is an action game played from a third-person perspective, with the occasional adventure sequences thrown into the mix to spice things up every once in a while. In truth, however, the game is pretty bad and not as fun as you might hope.

The story is the first thing that might hit at the fact that the developers focused their entire attention on the giant robots and rushed everything else in the meantime. As such, the action takes place in Japan sometimes in the future, where a Tsunami devastates the island and throws the civilization back a couple of centuries. Naturally, the survivors revert to some kind of samurai era, but they also find the resources to replace iron armors and swords with high-tech mech suits and rockets, so there’s that.

Things don’t get any pinker in the gameplay department either, because the mechanics feel cheap and unpolished, not to mention repetitive. Since almost all the mechs share most visual characteristics and they can only perform two kinds of attacks with the onboard weapons, the experience goes stale rather quickly. The controls and the missions are not very exciting either.

Probably the most disappointing aspect of the game is the level design, because you are usually trapped in narrow corridors that do not give you too much room to maneuver the steel beasts. Hence, you cannot avoid the enemies or do anything else other than shoot blindly until everything is dead or in flames. Granted, both your weapons have infinite ammunition, so you won’t even have to raise the finger off the fire button during the confrontations.

While there’s no doubt that mechs are awesome and everyone is just counting the days until they become feasible, Tsunami 2265 is not the game to prove that point. Hence, everything about it is either broken or just plain bad, which is why you’d better avoid it entirely and focus on something more refined, such as MechWarrior.