In that way, it was almost like Hotline Miami played with Mirror’s Edge mobility. Death would send me right back to the start of the room. Often times in my demo, I ended up in places where I’d need to kill everything in the room to unlock a door. These rudimentary tools make Ghostrunner a devilishly smooth work of agility, skill, and accuracy when you put them together properly. Among your arsenal in Ghostrunner is the ability to stop time and react accordingly to the world, such as dodging bullets, setting up kills, or both. Very useful for dodging bullets, getting in range for a kill, or completing an otherwise impossible jump. If you do it on the ground, it’s just a normal quickstep, but in the air, your blink dash freezes time temporarily and allows you to reposition yourself just slightly. Perhaps most interesting is your ability to blink forward a few paces in a dash.

You have the ability to climb, wall-run, grapple via grappling points, slide, and use your sword to dispatch foes. Ghostrunner tasks you with using all the elements of your cybernetic prowess to ascend the tower with Whisper and kill anything that stands in your way. With no one to protect, you go looking for answers, and that takes you to a mysterious Artificial Intelligence known as Whisper, who seems to know quite a bit about the secrets of you, the tower, and the forces trying to keep everything under control. The problem is that your ward was killed and you were supposed to die with them. In this world, you are a cybernetic sword-wielding bodyguard. A shady dictator known as the Keymaster seems to control everything with an iron fist and classes are strictly segregated throughout the tower. In the future, humanity has gathered in a massive technological skyscraper. Ghostrunner has a lot going on from what I could see at PAX South, but let’s start at the top.

It takes players to the cyberpunk genre, but it does so with breakneck pace and sleek style that left me breathless and imagining the magnificent speedrun possibilities after I finished hands-on time with the game. Ghostrunner is game being developed by One More Level with help from Slipgate Ironworks, produced by 3D Realms, and published by All in! Games. Fortunately, 3D Realms is no stranger to making an impact with their games, and at PAX South 2020, I got to take a good look at one of their new, upcoming titles that illustrates that perfectly. That means that new games entering the field need to stand out more than ever. It’s getting to be a crowded field in the cyberpunk genre when it comes to gaming.

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