Cloudpunk first person update#
Cloudpunk first person driver#

Cloudpunk first person update#

For one thing, the update comes with a free-moving camera inside the car, which allows you to see the inside of Rania’s cab up close as you travel through the city. While the wide perspective allows you to admire the cityscape easily, there’s something very intimate and personal about exploring the world from a first-person view. Previously, the game only allowed players to see their cab speed down its sky-high motorways from a third-person perspective. Perhaps this is why the latest update – the Cockpit update – is such a great addition to the game’s world: it allows players to see Nivalis up close from behind their hovercab’s dashboard for the very first time. Its captivating vaporwave aesthetics reminded me of the recent Paradise Killer, both in style and in the sense that the game’s world sticks with you long after you finish a playthrough. Cloudpunk plunges its players into a layered and immersively stylised world. The game draws you in with its colours and moody atmosphere, and the story, a neo-noir mystery told mostly through voiceovers, complements the visuals nicely. Shops, squares, and neighbourhoods where you deliver packages are laid out on floating platforms between the highways, nestled high up between impressive skyscrapers. You drive on bright and colourful highways that zigzag between buildings. The load times and framerate issues were a minor issue in the grand scheme of things.You traverse the landscape in a hovercab, a floating car.

I thoroughly enjoyed the story, the mechanics and how it played. Certain missions will require the player to make judgement calls on what the best approach is. The interaction between Control and Rania drives the narrative and is further enhanced by missions.

Thematically the game looks at poverty, isolation, greed and class which it underpins the majority of missions. These were all minor annoyances in an otherwise very enjoyable game.Ĭloundpunk is an interesting mix of narrative-driven game-play with superb visuals that embrace the neon-noir style. Elements of the map and markers weren’t particularly clear especially at the start of the game. When the maps did load, I found your car unresponsive and then frame rates would severely drop too. I was playing the game on the Xbox and found the load times frustratingly slow. There are a few drawbacks, the use of character animation as opposed to static pictures would have brought the characters to life when they are conversing. The game excels in the narrative aspects, the storyline and creating the world and people of Navalis. Rania’s AI companion Camus acts as a sounding board, large parts of the game involve monologues where we uncover more about Rania and the isolation she feels. The missions make Rania choose between keeping the status quo in the city or challenging the powerful and rich. However, as you complete more missions and interact with people, you begin to scratch away at the surface of Navalis and find out more about this place. This game is driven heavily by the interactions of “Control” (the voice of Cloudpunk) and Rania. The main storyline will guide you through the many parts of the city. Different parts of the city have different density of people, cars and buildings which makes each part of the city worthy of a visit. Pixelated blocky rendering adds to the city and doesn’t detract from the game. The mixture of neon-bright skyscapes mixed with darkness brings the bleakness of the world to life. The neon-noir pixelated world of Navalis is visually stunning. While the mechanics and game-play are straightforward and easy to get to grips, it mainly serves as a way to deliver the heavily driven narrative story of Navalis and the ills of this world. Game mechanics involve driving through a dystopian pixelated world and hand-delivering packages in either first person or 3rd person. The game centres on Rania’s first night delivering packages for Cloudpunk, an illicit delivery company.

Cloudpunk first person driver#

Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, Switch, Xbox One (Reviewed)Ĭloudpunk is the journey of the newbie driver, Rania, who has fled her home-world to become a delivery driver in Navalis to make ends meet.