Vanquish

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9.0

Universal acclaim- based on 1066 Ratings

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  1. Dbo
    May 26, 2017
    10
    What a AWESOME game that I never heard of before. The pace is outrageous and the game is so much fun! xD The gameplay never gets old and Im looking foward to making another run at it on hard difficulty!
  2. AMX121
    Nov 10, 2017
    10
    Vanquish is another Platinum Games title that still stands alone: think about how many third-person shooters we see, and six years after release, not a one can touch it.Vanquish basically makes players into a glass cannon - the power-suited Sam Gideon is incredibly fast and has all the offensive power he'll ever need, including slow-mo, but he can't take too many hits. The robotic enemiesVanquish is another Platinum Games title that still stands alone: think about how many third-person shooters we see, and six years after release, not a one can touch it.Vanquish basically makes players into a glass cannon - the power-suited Sam Gideon is incredibly fast and has all the offensive power he'll ever need, including slow-mo, but he can't take too many hits. The robotic enemies swarm into the locations and move for him, on the higher difficulty levels in particular… Expand
  3. suneater
    Jul 9, 2017
    8
    Even though it took them seven years, I'm glad that SEGA & Platinum were brave enough to finally port a modern light gun game to the PC. Of course, you might look at Vanquish and be bewildered, confusing it for yet another generic console port cover-based third person shooter. Everything about Vanquish seems to emulate an arcade experience, from the walls of enemies thrown at you, to theEven though it took them seven years, I'm glad that SEGA & Platinum were brave enough to finally port a modern light gun game to the PC. Of course, you might look at Vanquish and be bewildered, confusing it for yet another generic console port cover-based third person shooter. Everything about Vanquish seems to emulate an arcade experience, from the walls of enemies thrown at you, to the neon green HUD & cheesy sound effects, to the frenetic campaign & cutscene design. As expected of any good arcade game, nothing going on really makes sense; the plot is just an excuse to create new locations and introduce bosses.

    Follow the adventures of Sam Gideon as you rocket-slide from cover to cover until you somersault-kick a Russian space robot in the face and spray LMG bullets into his allies in slow motion during the fall back to the ground. Sam's movement is purposefully clunky, with loud mechanical grinding and slow animations, giving him a unique feeling from other Platinum Games characters that is more mecha than dancer. The only complaint I have about the combat is landing a melee attack will deplete your Augmented Reaction gauge. Normally when you enter low health, AR (slow motion) will trigger until your remaining gauge runs out, giving you ample reaction time to kill a few enemies around you and/or get to cover. Getting down to low health without the AR available will quickly result in you dying because of how many enemies are attacking you at once in most situations. This however is a small nitpick and the only negative I can think of when it comes to anything in regards to gameplay. Melee combat's effectiveness varies wildly depending on the situation and is often more useful for making yourself airborne by kicking off of terrain. The complexity of combat slowly unfurls itself as your struggle to survive causes you to innovate with mechanics. This is yet another Platinum masterpiece that is easy to learn but difficult to master; watching YouTubers pull of complex maneuvers is as exciting as watching a DMC or Bayonetta playthrough despite the vastly different gameplay design.

    Vanquish does everything it can to defy your expectations from a third-person shooter. While the music, SFX, and voice acting are all mediocre, everything else about this wild ride of a game elevates the experience to something special. Yet again, Platinum created something unique and memorable out of what could've been just another cover-based shooter. Even though it's seven years late, Vanquish is still an excellent experience that shouldn't be overlooked.    … Expand
  4. Antith3sis
    Aug 2, 2018
    9
    There isn't much game-play/mode improvement from the original, if any at all, aside from making it look prettier. Doesn't matter really, bc this game was so far ahead of its time it may as well have come out this year. Story isn't amazing, but its there, and by no means is it bad. Characters are the typical archetypes, and The cut scenes that move the story and develop these charactersThere isn't much game-play/mode improvement from the original, if any at all, aside from making it look prettier. Doesn't matter really, bc this game was so far ahead of its time it may as well have come out this year. Story isn't amazing, but its there, and by no means is it bad. Characters are the typical archetypes, and The cut scenes that move the story and develop these characters are great little jawns that give u a break from the absolutely frenetic nonstop action. This is a must play game for fans of action games and shooters in general. its far more than the sum of its parts; it honestly never gets boring. The challenge is perfect, you may die a fair amount on the road to getting the hang of it, and finding your zone, but beyond that the pacing and challenge both seemed perfect to me. it doesn't do anything revolutionary really, hence scoring it a 9 as opposed to a 10. i don't remember ever hearing anything about this game when it first released, i suppose it had no marketing budget whatsoever. i remember buying it randomly at gamestop, when people still went to gamestop and traded in games for credit. it was like 12$; i had the exact amount it costed leftover after buying what I came for so i took the chance on it, and boy am i happy i did. Loved it then, and i love that they released it on PC as that's all i really play on these days. i ended up playing it more than the game i had come to get ,which i believe was Bioshock 2(good game but really no difference from the first, more a DLC than a true sequel that they charged the price of a full game for, but that is another discussion entirely). I would honestly argue that this is one of, if not THE, single most CRIMINALLY UNDER-RATED game of all time. no exaggeration. i stay up on my VG news and like I mentioned this one slipped under my radar when it initially dropped, which probably dampened my expectations and allowed me to go in with a totally open mind. If you love shooters you absolutely, without question must play this game....Godspeed Sam!… Expand
  5. Tonetoelewa
    Aug 26, 2022
    10
    Una joyita retro o bien, una joya clásica para los amantes de la generación de videojuegos del xbox 360 y ps3, sin duda alguna es épico!. Jugabilidad, armas, acción y una historia returbia a mi parecer.
  6. BEHZADWESKER
    May 25, 2017
    10
    Vanquish basically makes players into a glass cannon - the power-suited Sam Gideon is incredibly fast and has all the offensive power he'll ever need, including slow-mo, but he can't take too many hits. The robotic enemies swarm into the locations and move for him, on the higher difficulty levels in particular making a beeline for the flanking spots. So your main offensive tool isVanquish basically makes players into a glass cannon - the power-suited Sam Gideon is incredibly fast and has all the offensive power he'll ever need, including slow-mo, but he can't take too many hits. The robotic enemies swarm into the locations and move for him, on the higher difficulty levels in particular making a beeline for the flanking spots. So your main offensive tool is movement: this is a 'cover' shooter about catching a breather then blasting off in another direction, rather than lining up behind a trash can to hold off an army.

    Vanquish is another Platinum Games title that still stands alone: think about how many third-person shooters we see, and six years after release not a one can touch it    … Expand
  7. Tomle1202
    Jun 20, 2017
    8
    Vanquish almost has everything needed to create an innovative shooter that could have been more than just a couple of hours of pure, even ridiculous, entertainment. It is fun to play, but far from perfect.
  8. SilverOrlov
    Sep 25, 2019
    8
    The most classic combination of patterns about the American style of army speech and behavior, and Japanese fanaticism on samurai and Mecha. A very intense action game with battles and gunfights on a space station-city against simple robots, powerful robots and ... boss robots. I can’t say that the game is good or bad. Rather, it is a normal representative of it's genre, which I oftenThe most classic combination of patterns about the American style of army speech and behavior, and Japanese fanaticism on samurai and Mecha. A very intense action game with battles and gunfights on a space station-city against simple robots, powerful robots and ... boss robots. I can’t say that the game is good or bad. Rather, it is a normal representative of it's genre, which I often enjoyed, but occasionally was upset with some decisions of the authors of that game.… Expand
  9. AJCk19
    Jul 7, 2022
    9
    This was meant for PC. It runs so beautifully. This game is perfection, the only complaint I have is that there is no multiplayer.

    A perfect comparison to this game, is Space Invaders meet 3rd person shooters.
  10. Metalpizza123
    Apr 9, 2018
    10
    I feel that one should always enjoy games as they were meant to be played.

    I initially played this on a PS3, and hated it. The framerate destroys the experience and I despised trying to wrestle with trying to move and shoot at high velocities on a controller while the framerate tanks to 15 fps. With this PC release, and I review it at its release price, I think the game is finally fully    I feel that one should always enjoy games as they were meant to be played.

    I initially played this on a PS3, and hated it. The framerate destroys the experience and I despised trying to wrestle with trying to move and shoot at high velocities on a controller while the framerate tanks to 15 fps. With this PC release, and I review it at its release price, I think the game is finally fully realised.
    Now, my experience will be a bit better than most. I'm lucky enough to run this game at 144 FPS, turning it into a slick, smooth experience. I'm using keyboard and mouse, although controller support is there. I wouldn't recommend it, but it's an option.
    The game is fun. no doubt about it. the mechanics are simple, the level design serviceable, and the weapons are good, but not amazing. However, just by adding insane mobility and slow motion,Shinji Mikami has created a fun, blazing fast arcade shooter. The story, is frankly, awful. The sections in the game that limit mobility are **** In these areas, the game falls flat and takes away all the fun the experience should be. But once you're free to slide around a battlefield, nothing compares to the thrill of the gunplay. It's got a decent campaign, with a few bosses sprinkled in, but normal enemies are the most fun to fight.
    Now, you must be thinking, why give it a 10? It has loads of flaws. It has terrible story, voice acting. My reason is that unlike other releases, this was released for a low price. You could say yes, but on steam it costs the same as a much older game, such as Fallout 3. However, I would say it would only be fair to review fallout 3 when it was released for a full 40 quid. And for that, Vanquish deserves its price tag. At 15 pounds i'm willing to cut it some slack. I wouldn't expect any game launching at 15 pounds to have AAA quality on everything.
    It's a great port too. runs well on my laptop and desktop. I do wish they would change a LOT of the menus so I can quickly just hop into a level and shoot the heck out of some robots. I would also like a new game plus or a god mode so I can have all the unlocked weapons to run around with.

    If you can, get it on sale. It's fun, and you'll probably spend more on a night out. Stay home. Play Vanquish.
    also find ways to disable all the cutscenes. They're all crap.    … Expand
  11. Figaro79
    Jul 10, 2017
    9
    Прекрасный шутер от третьего лица. Быстрый, адреналиновый с высоченной реиграбельностью. Проходил сперва на XBOX 360, затем на Playstation 3 и вот недавно на ПК прошёл. Время его ни капельки не старит. Геймплей даст фору ВСЕМ современным шутерам! - без скидок. Даже "клюквенный" сюжет в игре уместен и не раздражает.
    P.S. с "клавомыши" лично мне управление больше понравилось.    Прекрасный шутер от третьего лица. Быстрый, адреналиновый с высоченной реиграбельностью. Проходил сперва на XBOX 360, затем на Playstation 3 и вот недавно на ПК прошёл. Время его ни капельки не старит. Геймплей даст фору ВСЕМ современным шутерам! - без скидок. Даже "клюквенный" сюжет в игре уместен и не раздражает.
    P.S. с "клавомыши" лично мне управление больше понравилось.
  12. SinitarGaming
    Aug 19, 2018
    8
    Vanquish is absolutely badass and if not one of a kind, but definitely very unique game. A futuristic third-person shooter with all possible from shotter classics: hordes of enemies swarming and surrounding you, wide arsenal of weapons that you can upgrade multiple times, which is only improved by furutistic aspect of the game, so you can shoot from simple weapons like shotguns and sniperVanquish is absolutely badass and if not one of a kind, but definitely very unique game. A futuristic third-person shooter with all possible from shotter classics: hordes of enemies swarming and surrounding you, wide arsenal of weapons that you can upgrade multiple times, which is only improved by furutistic aspect of the game, so you can shoot from simple weapons like shotguns and sniper rifles to an ultrasonic guns, homing rockets and lazer cannons, simple and easy-to-follow storyline.

    But the true flavor of Vanquish is not even in this. Playing as Sam Gideon wearing an ultra-stylish and powerful power suite, you are a true Glass Cannon - incredibly fast unit with an insane firepower, but you can't let enemies hit you often (or even once if you're facing a huge boss). Game is greatly showing reality of war, where each bullet and move can be your last - but amazingly spiced up with technologies of the future. While playing through the levels, you can find upgrades for your weapons, making them more powerful, fast-shooting and precize. Upgrade process is smart in details as well - for example, if you have found an ammo pack for your current weapon, but your ammo is already at full, this pack will be considered as part of upgrade instead.

    Eleminating your enemies and winning the roud is all about speed and tactical movement. You can spend 500 bullets trying to blow the huge robot from the front, or you can attemt a high-speed dashing maneuver, lirerally gliding under the robots feet in a blink of an eye, while he's targeting your allies or moving forward to smash you - and then, land a few devastating hits to it's core, finishing the business in a few seconds and giving you a savage portion of adrenaline and fun.
    Difficulty is gradually increasing, regular enemies arriving in bigger numbers and tough enemies and bosses are always bigger, stronger and always have different arsenal of weapons and abilities to surprise you. Walkthrough and chekpoints are carefully interrupted with epic cutscenes where your hero is flying, dodging and infiltrating enemies in stylish way, bombs being dropped and whole cities being eleminated, adding more and mroe fuel to the forge of battle. After each boss defeated and battle won, I was hyped that I wanted to smoke that cigarette together with the protagonist.

    Another part is unexpectable amount of gameplay features here and there. For example, besides shooting, Sam can perform a melee attack as well, and you're pleasantly surprised when you realize that melee attack is absolutely different depending on which weapons you are wearing - you can perform a flurry of savege punches charged with energy, of peform one, but incredibly powerful stylish kick, making a flip in process. Knowing there is more than a dozens of weapon types, your arsenal of power-upped martial arts is not less fascinating.
    Each level gives different strategical tasks where each time you need to make different approach, as well as giving you little something new here and there - for example, during one missions you'll be trying to survive in a long tonne wile riding a vehicle, and to support you, this vehicle machineguns will follow YOUR and shoot when you'll be shooting. You can shoot, dodge, glide, speed up and slow time when you're critically injured, land explosives, heal your allies or, if you're not very attentive - kill them with friendly fire as well. The battles are massive and feeling like a real hell, the characters are canonically badass, the bosses are savage and huge, and the game pace is truly outragegous.

    9/10 - I wish story mode could be really at least twice longer - I've enjoyed it to hell and back.    … Expand
  13. AxeWould
    Apr 10, 2021
    9
    Игруха просто топич, даже не ожидал что такая годнота, да диалоги и сюжет не ахти, но они тут и не главные, тут главное просто безбашный быстрый и крутой геймплей
  14. FirstSpawn
    Sep 11, 2022
    8
    Прошёл игру только на "обычной" сложности и оцениваю её только исходя из этого. Игра реально крутая и прошёл её с удовольствием. Но после прохождения всё-таки осталось чувство какой-то недоделанности, как будто чего-то не хватило.Прошёл игру только на "обычной" сложности и оцениваю её только исходя из этого. Игра реально крутая и прошёл её с удовольствием. Но после прохождения всё-таки осталось чувство какой-то недоделанности, как будто чего-то не хватило.
  15. KIrillooss
    Dec 9, 2021
    9
    Отличный экшен шутер с простым сюжетом и крутыми героями
  16. BananWasTaken
    May 9, 2022
    8
    Vanquish is a great game. Sure the story is not the best and the gameplay can be clanky sometimes. But the enemies are fun to fight against and the bosses feel fair. And the missions have some variety.
    Overall that was a fun game with some fun mechanics and even though the gameplay was clanky, it was still fun to play.
  17. KinimodYunmi
    Sep 6, 2022
    10
    Vanquish ist ein kurzes und permanentes Actiongame, welches zu keiner Zeit von irgendeinem unnötigen Spielaufbauschzeug ausgebremst wird. Hier kann man in knappen 6 Stunden mal eben ein extrem gutes Singleplayergame durchzocken, man möchte auch gar nicht unterbrechen, das gibt´s nur noch echt selten. Kann ich nur empfehlen, der Fokus liegt auf Action, Gameplay und Spaß. Vor allem dasVanquish ist ein kurzes und permanentes Actiongame, welches zu keiner Zeit von irgendeinem unnötigen Spielaufbauschzeug ausgebremst wird. Hier kann man in knappen 6 Stunden mal eben ein extrem gutes Singleplayergame durchzocken, man möchte auch gar nicht unterbrechen, das gibt´s nur noch echt selten. Kann ich nur empfehlen, der Fokus liegt auf Action, Gameplay und Spaß. Vor allem das Gameplay ist perfekt, es gibt keine Probleme, nichts nervt oder sonst was, auch bei der Kürze sehr beachtlich!

    10/10    … Expand
  18. btl630900
    Sep 1, 2023
    8
    I found myself incredibly surprised as someone who isn't the most into FPS sort of games that vanquish was this fun and awesome. Platinum's design shines though again with excellent depth is great weapons, boost mechanic and cover shooter segments plus ROBOT fights that amp up this game to pure fun while being tough but fair. The setting of this game is really cool and the sequences areI found myself incredibly surprised as someone who isn't the most into FPS sort of games that vanquish was this fun and awesome. Platinum's design shines though again with excellent depth is great weapons, boost mechanic and cover shooter segments plus ROBOT fights that amp up this game to pure fun while being tough but fair. The setting of this game is really cool and the sequences are amazing with a great final boss. The story is kinda the best nonsense and man the 2nd to lass boss is Pure PAIN to beat but man this game is great. Sam is incredibly fun to play as and there is a surprising depth to this game.… Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#97 Best PC Game of 2017
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#69 Most Discussed PC Game of 2017
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#100 Most Shared PC Game of 2017

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Gamers' Temple
    Sep 13, 2017
    70
    Vanquish wasn't what I envisioned when seeing the trailers and reading the hype surrounding it. I think there is a fan base for these types of games and even for its creator Shinji Mikami, the creator of Resident Evil and director of The Evil Within. This game is far from those two games. It reminds me of going to the movies or the bowling alley and playing an over-the-top, action-based arcade game until I ran out of quarters 15 minutes later. The arcades were there to fill a void for a few minutes of time, not to entertain for several hours. Granted the style of game fits the bill for the amount of time I have to play these games but if you are looking to sink your teeth into a game to get lost in for several hours, maybe even days, this may not be for you.
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  2. Worth Playing
    Jul 21, 2017
    80
    Compared to Bayonetta, Vanquish has some catching up to do. The story and characters are forgettable, the environments quickly get stale, and there's no progression in weapons and powers. At the same time, the gameplay remains brilliant, with solid shooting that melds well with some very fast action; it's enough to overcome any visible flaws. With the improvements in frame rate, Vanquish is a good action shooter for anyone with even a mild interest in the genre.
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  3. CD-Action
    Jul 20, 2017
    95
    It’s been seven years since Vanquish debuted on consoles, but its gameplay hasn’t aged a bit (which means it’s still impressive as hell) and benefits from 60 fps offered by the PC version. [08/2017, p.56]
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