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Just some caveats: once you figure out how the enemy AI here works, particularly after the second chapter, you can find yourself in situations where you can funnel enemies to meet their Baba Yaga-branded beatdown no guns required. Seeing the cel-shaded graphics in motion with the atmospheric tunes blaring while I’m racking up a kill count from an “enemy respawn” door and figuring out my route gives me a decent amount of thrills. Needless to say, the six chapters where I’m going through the motions and kicking ass is pretty fun. You also can use focus to do special “one-hit takedown” moves to clear enemy count, but you’ll need to find a safe spot to recharge that resource. You will run out of ammo frequently, so making sure you down enemies with guns and then taking their spoils will give you more options. You may even need to be creative and either chuck a gun to stun foes or even push them away to get away from lines of sight. You’ll be doing a lot of mental calculating and predicting keep in mind that your resources like handgun clips and bandages are limited. If you pay attention to the timeline and move just before the red bits hit the centre white line, you’re good. If you see enemies coming at you or if they’re lining up their shots, you can choose to either go up close and beat them up, or just get out of sight. The upside? You can do the same to your opponent. During the prep bit, you can be interrupted or waylaid. All actions -from shooting to crouching to recovering health- has a preparation time and an action time. See the top of the screen? All your actions and your enemy’s are determined by this. See, everything in John Wick Hex is running on a timeline. But the action? Hardly, if playing a different kind of strategy game is your cup of tea.

The story is inconsequential – it takes place before the first film and deals with John Wick killing a bunch of mob bosses with narration from Lance Reddick and Ian McShane. In other words, a top-down isometric Superhot but with a grizzled assassin dubbed the Baba Yaga against the world. If anything, this strategy game that is brandishing the John Wick name excels at what it does: deliver a “turn-based” title where all your figurative chess pieces move simultaneously to the flow of the action.

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And yet somehow we live in a time where it’s not mandatory to pay full triple-A price for it.

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It’s odd to see a title like John Wick Hex existing: a game made by Mike Bithell and his Bithell Games group ( Thomas was Alone, Volume), a prolific indie dev, tasked with a movie license based on a Keanu Reeves comeback idea turned into an over-the-top action franchise.

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