Fights basically turned into a weird game of Duck, Duck, Goose. In the latter half of the game, any lingering cool factor or pretense of genuine “strategy” is pretty much evaporated. What happened to the John Wick that killed three people with a pencil? The lack of any sort of environmental interaction is baffling. There’s just not that much to it after a while, though, and it’s odd that you can only use guns or your fists. I definitely fist pumped and muttered “Yeah!” to myself a couple of times. Don’t get me wrong in the first few sections of the game, chaining together a few hand-to-hand takedowns and pulling off a well-placed shot immediately after felt kinda cool. The standard gameplay loop, too, starts off fun and fresh, but becomes monotonous rather quickly. Baker does an admirable job as a despicable, whining, entitled gangster hellbent on getting what he wants. Additionally, we have famous voice actor Troy Baker as Hex, the antagonist who has taken our two celebrities hostage. We do get Ian McShane and Lance Reddick reprising their roles from the film though, so that’s nice. Yep, that’s right, I’m gonna rip that band-aid off now: Keanu is not in the game. In the game, which is a prequel back to when John was working regularly, we play as the man himself, now turned into a strong-and-silent type. But what about that aforementioned series, John Wick, where Reeves plays the titular assassin? Where is the video game for that blistering actionfest? Yeah, that’s right, move over McConaughey we’ve got Neo now! While we’ve seen the ultimate blank slate audience surrogate actor take over action cinema by storm with the John Wick films, we also know he’s dipping his toe into the digital realm with spring’s Cyberpunk 2077 ( which looks rad, by the way). We are in the middle of the Keanuissance.
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