‘Agent no. 6’ – An Eerie Encounter for British Secret Brokers

Agent no. 6 appears an terrible lot like a sure N64 shooter based mostly round a martini-drinking undercover agent. Though your foes could also be extra terrifying than you bear in mind.

CONTENT WARNING – Self-Hurt Imagery

‘An Terrible Lot Like” is placing it frivolously. When you performed Goldeneye, you’ll immediately really feel at house with the weapons and layouts of this transient horror sport. When you haven’t, you’ll be guiding our undercover agent protagonist round a army facility and blasting the troopers inside. Fortunately, there’s no scarcity of ammo as you are taking weapons out of your fallen enemies and use them on their comrades. When you play it sneaky, you possibly can probably get the drop on a few of them earlier than they attempt to overwhelm you with their numbers. I imply, there are loads of these guys far and wide. They’ll take you down if you happen to draw an excessive amount of consideration abruptly.

This all looks like pretty customary shooter fare, besides the sport retains giving bizarre messages and errors. I assumed this system simply wasn’t put collectively fairly proper, however these glitches and warnings appeared to trace that one thing was genuinely off. There’s point out of an entity. I assumed it was only a programming time period I didn’t know, however after some time, one thing begins to stalk you within the sport. The areas shift from an outside facility into one thing deep underground. You start to see blood in every single place. Shadowy shapes skirt simply out of sight. It’s not lengthy earlier than these kinds aren’t content material to only comply with you any extra.

Agent n. 6 is a trustworthy tackle Goldeneye when it needs to be, but it surely’s additionally a devious horror shooter that can have you ever scrambling to fireside at disturbing issues chasing you at nighttime. It’s a heck of a shift in tone and makes for some downright terrifying shootouts.

Agent no. 6 is obtainable now on itch.io.

Joel Couture

Joel has been masking indie video games for varied websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Journal, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is continually looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games could be, and seeks to delve into the artistic course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.