Sub Rosa

Multiplayer shooters are all about fun and entertainment, in the end, regardless of how good or bad the game in question looks and whether it features an ultra-realistic physics engine. However, these elements can sometimes make the gameplay more fun, which is why titles like Battlefield and Call of Duty have such an immense success on the market nowadays.

Sub Rosa is a multiplayer shooter in which you get to pretend that you are making important deals with the other players, as well as resort to violence whenever things do not go according to plan. The open map basically allows you to do as you please, including just driving around and taking part in wacky drive-by shootings, as long as you can afford the weapons to do so.

In order to make money, you have to sell various objects, such as disks that contain valuable information, liable to overthrow entire companies if they fell into the wrong hands. Since money and information are the main currencies in the game, things can quickly get out of control during one of these exchanges, especially since you usually play with people from all over the world.

Although there are many weapon models you can choose from if you have enough money, they might not always cut it, if the enemy happens to flee the scene with a vehicle. However, in case you also happen to have a car at your disposal, the entire sequence can transform into a highly entertaining high-speed chase throughout the city, since more players can occupy the same vehicle at the same time and everyone can shoot through the windows as well.

Lastly, the graphics are not exactly what you would expect from such a title, especially not in this day and age. However, the major lack of polygons makes for very modest system requirements, while the gameplay manages to remain quite complex at the same time. Moreover, the map can be a bit difficult to read and the sounds very dry, but you usually do not have the time to think about these things and they are not too inconvenient anyway.

Sub Rosa is the type of game that may only captivate a small group of people in the beginning, due to the fact that it looks so strange. However, after word gets out and players realize that there's much more to it than it seems, a much bigger crowd should form around it.