Neuro Hunter Demo

Whenever the future and extra-planetary exploration is mentioned in a futuristic movie or video game, it never seems to go well for the humans involved in the action. Whether alien monsters suddenly start to crave human flesh, or people just turn against each other in order to fight over the newly found territory, conflict always appears sooner or later.

Neuro Hunter decided to just mash everything together and not really bother with offering coherent explanations to how or why everything happens. Not only that, but the game is also a rather interesting experiment when it comes to genre mixing, because although it plays and feels like a first-person shooter, it actually features a hefty amount of role-playing elements as well.

In essence, the main plot talks about a Hunter, played by you, who gets abandoned by the corporation he was working for after he gets tasked with repairing a mining facility. As it happens, you stumble into an underground world ruled by a guy named Hacker, along with a variety of dangerous monsters that lurk behind every corner. Your task is to get back to the surface and obviously defeat the bad guys along the way.

Unfortunately, the game does not have enough good parts to be worth the purchase, because the majority of its elements are subpar. Gameplay-wise, the missions are repetitive and they usually do not make a lot of sense, while the RPG elements only seem to surface in the form of an inventory you can use to carry items and a minimal crafting system, which is not that impressive anyway.

Not only that, but the action is made even more difficult to digest by the poor graphics quality, which really hurts the overall atmosphere. The soundtrack is not excellent either, because the songs do not seem to go along very well with what goes on on the screen, or the general theme of the game. However, all of these things would not matter if the gameplay and the story were worthwhile at least.

All things considered, Neuro Hunter came out in a pretty rough shape, but the underlying ideas and concepts could have worked much better with a bit more work and dedication. However, the broken gameplay and the lack of a decent storyline quickly make the experience rather difficult to enjoy properly.