Inversion takes place in a modern day setting where an alien race called the Lutadores try to take over the world and enslave mankind forever but of course our ex marine heroes Marcus and Dom.. I mean Davis and Leo prevent that from happening. Of course that can’t be the only story chunk of the game it had to set itself apart from Gears of War somehow. Leo is David’s best friend who wants to help Davis and apparently, has nothing to do. Leo always mentions that he’s helping him out for other reasons but he never tells us why he does. The game doesn’t tell us his backstory at all. Our hero Davis wants to find his daughter that’s missing, there’s a gravity mechanic in the game. Sadly, this is the only story I can really describe to you guys because they didn’t really care it was mainly focused on combat specifically. This is a very boring and repetitive combat oriented game and that’s all it is.
Our two main heroes David and Leo are more bland than their actual names. The voice acting for this game is incredibly typical and lazy. There were some moments where I thought the dialogue could have been really good for a particular cut scene but they had to go down the lazy route and just do their lines like they don’t care. I ended up skipping a lot of cutscenes because they were just so boring to watch and had no life to it. I didn’t see a reason to keep watching them, they were just so uninteresting. Speaking of cutscenes, this game has a lot of them! I kid you not every five minutes of the game a cutscene begins, even after every fight too. People were complaining that Resident Evil 6 had a lot of cutscenes, this game definitely wins the prize for that. Like I mentioned earlier, the cutscenes are extremely boring so the fact that the game throws you one every five minutes makes the campaign extremely hard to play because it’s so uninteresting. Also mentioning character development, I didn’t see any with our two main heroes at all. I didn’t feel like I cared about them at all or had a reason to care about them. The game didn’t try to make it seem like we should really care about these two people for life or death.
Let’s move onto the real part that I’m sure you guys are interested in really reading about which is the combat! Now, this is your typical third person shooter if I had to compare it to something it would be a mirror image Gears of War, so players that already know that series will be right at home with Inversion. You can only carry two primary weapons at a time with of course a choice of a grenade. The weapon change menu looks identical to Gears of War too! They couldn’t even make the assault rifle look slightly different either, they just had to copy the same one from… you guessed it… Gears of War. Most of the time, the game is pretty fast paced, there’s nothing stealthy about this game. You can expect to be doing practically the same thing for about five hours straight. Shoot.. cover.. grab ammo.. this is what you’re doing for the whole campaign. You use your standard weapons which is three assault rifles, three shotguns, rocket launchers, and two snipers. Not a whole lot of weapons at your disposal but these weapons are somewhat unique enough to make the game it’s own thing. Shooting the weapons are a blast, the impact they make feel pretty satisfying. This is probably the only thing in the game that made me keep going to the end.
There is a gravity mechanic in the game called the, “grav link” that does make the game stand out slightly. In this mechanic you can shoot a bolt of energy towards your enemies and then for about fifteen seconds or so, your enemies will be in the air not being able to move. You can freely shoot them without them being able to shoot you back. You can also use the grav link to grab items that come off of the wall or ground when you shoot. You can throw cars, gasoline tanks, rocks, just about anything really which is pretty cool. Also, when you get to the middle of the game your grav link gets upgraded which then will allow you to have a shield around you that lasts for a long time. I think that the grav link is an awesome idea but it’s really cheap to use because your enemies are really vulnerable when you use it, which makes the game pretty easy. Of course I didn’t play the game on easy difficulty I played it on normal. That’s why I didn’t use it that much only in situations where I really needed too.
The environments are really bland in this game, you’re pretty much going to see the same thing over and over again until you get to the end of the game. Environments include broken buildings and huge holes. This basically sums up what you’re always seeing for the entirety of the game. They don’t even look good either graphically. I have a pc and was able to play this game on the highest settings and even playing on high didn’t make this game look good. Although with the game having bland environments, what you do with the broken environments however, is the worst part of the game. From time to time there will be certain gravity moments I like to call them when you’re just running around clearing enemies, the environments will start to go into gravity for a long time. Pretty much broken parts of buildings are flying everywhere and you yourself are flying with it so you need to traverse around so you can get to solid ground again. You pretty much look like a flying ballerina girl doing these cute spins to different broken building parts that are flying through the air. Sometimes enemies will come after you so it just looks like this hilarious flying combat game that never was.
Enemies look extremely funny flying around to different cover and plus they’re more vulnerable for attack so the flying segments of the game are pretty useless. They didn’t even make it clever or cool, these sequences involving the gravity I personally don’t think this game needed those gravity moments at all. It slowed the game down and wasted my time. I’m also very disappointed that the developers didn’t spend more time improving these moments because they could have been really cool and unique. Sadly the developers of this game were too lazy to make this game unique at all. They should call this game grenade simulator because that’s all your enemies will do to you for the entire game. They just hurl grenades over and over again every single fight. They also throw it at the exact location you’re at which forces you to get out of cover all the time. Enemies are pretty smart for the most part. They will try to flank you at any cost and be merciless which is good because it gives the game challenge. I died a lot during my playthrough surprisingly so the game does put up a challenge. Your partner Leo does a great job actually being your support for the game. He gives you tips and actually kills the enemies like a real person would. He does however get annoying because he’s constantly talking.
Boss fights are by far the worst and I mean worst part about this game. You’ll be fighting three different bosses throughout the entirety of the game. Not only are you fighting only three bosses, you’re going to fight each boss about four to five times again and again in the whole campaign. I was so disappointed that the developers forced you to fight the same boss over and over again and the next time is not any more different than the last time you fought him. This is absolutely lazy and I cannot believe that anyone thought this was a good idea. It makes this game even more repetitive than it already is. These boss fights aren’t even fun at all, there is no fun way to kill them or at least make it even challenging at all. There so standard that it’ll only take you about three minutes or so to beat them. I was just so furiated at the fact that they made you fight the same boss over and over again.
For a game trying to be a unique triple AAA title would just be the worst thing anyone can compare this to. This game is a huge slap in the face for consumers. It’s a horrible game that has a boring story, boring characters, repetitive combat, shooting galleries like no other, and they had the balls to sell this game for sixty dollars at one point. I couldn’t review the online multiplayer portion of this game because no one plays it anymore and believe me, I’m not surprised. Maybe this game was just meant to be an online experience more than being remembered for its crappy campaign. The fact that this game also tries to be like Gears of War is also demeaning because it’s not even a good tribute to that series. I picked up this game for about four dollars on a steam sale and even then I don’t feel like this game is justified for even paying four dollars. They should have made this game a free to play game because I just feel so disgusted. It was an incredibly boring campaign that lasted me about five hours in total with an ending that’s not even worth mentioning because it was so disappointing. So if you’re reading this and are ever thinking about playing this game because it looks “cool” please save yourself the money and time. I rate this game a 2 out of 10.
Inversion A.K.A. Gears of War Rip Off Review
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