Once a titan is down and defenseless, you can swing into action and finish the job by slicing into the back of its neck. Attacks to appendages, will render the titan unable to defend itself or in some cases unable to walk. You use your ODM to grapple onto them, target arms, legs or neck and launch blade attacks. Each level you begin is filled with titans who are entering the city walls. You recruit four members to your team, give them commands in keeping with your attack strategy and use your ODM gear to chop titans down. This is as close as you are going to get, next to building it and attempting it in the real world.Įach level is laid out in the same manner. If you wondered what it would be like to use ODM gear while watching the anime. It is a blast and the crowning achievement of the game. The gameplay while swinging around is first and foremost awesome and well-executed. The game begins with a tutorial that eases you into using your Omni Directional Mobility Gear. Through fighting titans, it has been discovered that striking them on the nape of the neck has the ability to kill them if executed correctly. Eren has sworn revenge on titans and dedicates his life to destroying them. In the game you begin as Eren Yeager, a cadet who saw his mother eaten by a titan as a child. It allows them to reach heights where they are capable of inflicting enough damage on the titans to take them down.

This technology allows the soldiers to propel themselves by wires and and compressed air propulsion. Factions in the military rise to fight the titans, using Omni Directional Mobility Gear.

After living a few years peacefully behind their walls, the titans wage a surprise attack on the city, again forcing humanity to face its possible extinction. Gigantic titans suddenly appeared and began destroying humanity forcing them into exile and near decimation. The outcome hits several perfect notes while also missing the plot in some areas.Īs mentioned, Attack On Titan is a popular Manga/Anime, that tells the story of the last of humanity, living in a walled off city. The last of humanity rising to fight gigantic and horrifying titans, turned into a game, sounds more perfect than the combo of peanut butter and jelly. While first watching the anime version of Attack On Titan, I remembered thinking about what an awesome game it would make if done right. Koei Tecmo, takes on the gargantuan task, of successfully taking the beloved Manga/Anime and translating it into a game.

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