Raze 2 - Game Review

The popular action arena shooter Raze has finally got its sequel that all its fans were waiting for. Raze 2 has a lot of new tweaks that have improved its graphics, performance and gameplay. Let us take a closer look at the game.

If you not played the original Raze, this will not prevent you from appreciating the sequel. Raze 2 retained everything that was nice in its predecessor and got a lot of new features that make the game even more interesting for players.

As in the original game, before you start to battle in Raze 2, you need to choose which side you will take: whether you will play for the human and fight to save the Earth and you will take the side of the alien and fight for the destruction of the Earth. Human and alien races have completely different set of tools to use, so playing for different race provides a different playing experience.

As in majority of shooter game, in Raze 2 you will run, shoot and kill and try to avoid enemy fire, various traps and dangerous natural phenomena, as well as pick up different power ups and tools. Game controls are fairly easy to master: use WASD or arrow keys to move around and the mouse the mouse to aim and shoot. Q and E keys are used for cycle through your tools, number keys are used to pick the tools directly. F key is used to access various special abilities. If you are new to the game there is a tutorial level, there your companion will teach you the basics of the game.

In this game while you are not penalized for performing badly, you can get serious rewards for completing achievements, killing harder enemies. You get credits for double kills, critical hits and other special moves. Then you can use those credits to buy character skins, equipment, tools and abilities. To earn credits faster just play Quick Match mode – the more enemies you will kill, the more credits, that you can then use in the main game, you earn.

The game uses the login system which allows saving your character in your account and then playing from any computer. Finally, the game provides global statistics: you can see the stats of everyone around the world at the bottom of the main menu.

Upon the whole Raze 2 is a worthy sequel of Raze with plenty of interesting new features to uncover.