Playing Echo Point Nova is like diving through someone's dreams after they've played too much Titanfall or Tribes

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Echo Point Nova

Released in the last week of September, Echo Point Nova is the second game from Greylock Studios, the one-man-band outfit that gave us the excellent bullet-time shooter Severed Steel. The family resemblance is clear enough, with Echo Point Nova seemingly using the same glossy and (optionally) ray-traced voxel engine as its predecessor, but in many ways inverts the design. Where Severed Steel was about optimizing a path through a tight series of corridors and rooms and occasionally blowing a hole through a wall, Echo Point Nova gives you the skies and a pickaxe that obliterates everything but reinforced metal.

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While I’ve enjoyed the game most with the difficulty cranked up to high and with no assists, Echo Point Nova is only as hardcore as you want it to be. On top of a spread of difficulty settings, there’s a bunch of accessibility options, up to and including smart auto-aim that leads moving targets for you and a toggle to make the bosses stationary, automatically melee anything within range, and prevent you from falling off ledges. It’s an impressively full package for a solo developer, and given the years of free updates that Severed Steel got, I can only see it improving. Oh yeah, and there’s a level editor too.

I’m already itching to get back to the game and continue my chaotic kick-flipping co-op adventure through the clouds, but for now, I leave you with a wholehearted recommendation: If you’ve ever dreamed about zooming through an FPS, gliding across walls and through the sky, you need to checkEcho Point Nova’s demo, at the very least.

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