The ACE studio has offered us a lot of good titles, including the Zeno Clash saga. And this is the one we are interested in, because Clash Artifacts of Chaos is the third part of the series. Series put on pause for a long time. But is it right to bring out the title again or should it have been left aside for a while?
10 years of waiting.
In 2009, Zeno Clash was a total success. One of the first titles to offer a hand-to-hand FPS that required hitting and parrying. All this with a lot of combos that you had to learn to master. Well, we’ll note that the game had a unique and hyper disturbing universe too.
Clash on the other hand will allow a major change to the series. No more FPS, now it’s TPS. We are much more on an adventure title with a better reading of the action than in the past. Where Zeno Clash offered a lot of freedom, Clash becomes a succession of free levels. We lose a lot of the feeling of getting lost.
The downside of all these changes is that the freedom is almost zero. While the switch to TPS means that you’ll often hit next to the enemies. This will make you rage when an enemy is a bit high.
Hit and move on.
The gameplay is rather poor. You just hit and move, hit and move. Basically, the gameplay has not evolved in more than 10 years… Which is a pity when you know that the saga which was an indie saga in the past has passed AA with this episode. And see also are taken of almost 10 euros at the time has quadrupled in price.
Well the artifacts as the title says are also an addition that is not the most interesting. If you win, you will have an advantage over your enemies, if you fail you will take a hit. The move is meant to add content and modernity. But in reality, we’ll spend our time trying to understand the game and play it.
In the end, Clash is not so bad. If we forget about the gameplay. The title has a pretty good story and a pretty engaging universe. We don’t know if the studio has planned a future sequel. But if it is the case. We hope for a complete overhaul of the gameplay which has not evolved since the first title…
