Wanted Corp

Wanted Corp – Demo Impressions

Wanted Corp puts you in the shoes of two intergalactic bounty hunters Neal H Maddog and Irina Zimoy. This third person shooter arcade game was developed and published by Zoo Entertainment. You can find the released retail versions of Wanted Corp on PSN and PC.

The main menu screen shows Trial Game and Buy Game. After choosing Trial Game it breaks down into Play, Buy the Game, Store, Training, Leaderboard, Archives and Options. I first choose Training which is a tutorial that shows you the basic gameplay mechanics of Wanted Corp. The tutorial teaches you how to catch fugitives, use your guns, throw grenades and basic movement. Wanted Corp can be used with the Move motion controler. Since i don’t have Move i used the DS3: L2-roll, LS-move, Square-melee, RS-aim, R1-fire, R3-reload, L1-change weapon, R2-cryogenic fire.

I like the controls in this game. Its sorta a top down shooter so the roll evade was a nice addition. Switching guns from regular to the Cryogenic Freezer (to catch criminals) didn’t feel seamless. Everything else was pretty good even the grenade aiming mechanic. You get the most points by transferring fugitives which i had no problem with. There is a shop on your ship and also on the maps that takes you to the ship. You can play Wanted Corps Offline 1 or 2 players or Online 2 players.

The demo gives you a nice taste of what the full game is probably like. The atmosphere is light hearted as evidenced by how many one-liners Maddog says in-game. The presentation is that of a sci-fi universe featuring spaceships and distant exatic planets. Fugitives range from all types of beings like half robotic primates and Monks with telekinetic powers. You get a nice dossier of each fugitive you will hunt inside the Wanted Corp spaceship before teleporting onto the planet. To my knowledge there are 8 missions in Wanted Corp (full game). The demo mission  lasts about thirty minutes (give or take). The first mission titled Jungle Episode: 1.

Irina and Maddog uses two completely different styles of gameplay. Maddog just shoots and blows stuff up Irina uses lightning magic. The level’s setting starts off in a jungle then takes place inside a cave and back outside. You can capture practically anything that attacks you. I played alone as Maddog with Irina as a bot. The gameplay is actually fun. You can melee boxes and get ammo and health items if you run low. The gameplay is frantic at times but not difficult. Then again what twin-stick shooter isn’t frantic?

Collectibles such as  Pharmatech Reports are  scattered about and scored on at the end of each mission. The one obvious weakness in this game was its visuals. They were muddied washed out and had vasilene smeared textures. The music was pretty good however. I liked the jungle beats that were in the first mission. The rest of the music did give me a sci-fi vibe. There is alote of voiced dialog in Wanted Corp. The writing and voice acting is pretty much all cheesy but not necessarily bad either.

Wanted Corps demo was ok. It does have a nice tutorial and decent size mission to play. I did like the gameplay for its action and the ability to capture fugitives. The atmosphere was also decent. Thanks for reading.