The pièce de résistance is the game's moody noir-style soundtrack that perfectly rises or falls in intensity based on the moment-to-moment gameplay. Flashbang grenades, gunfire, and explosives are frighteningly loud, making each encounter feel genuinely terrifying. In-game locations like secret meth labs or overtaken shipping docks are built with immaculate attention to detail, featuring layouts and props that are mostly contextually appropriate (more on that later). The game's visual style is dark and gloomy, with the only illumination coming from dull light fixtures or the glow of multicolored neon. The tension is heightened by Ready or Not's excellent visual and audio presentation, which can only be described as both striking and oppressive. Each room or area across the game's eight maps offers a tense, complicated challenge for my teammates and I to overcome with our tactics and equipment, especially since suspects will often hear you coming if you're not careful and will even pretend to be civilians on occasion, keeping you on your toes. Overall, it's a gameplay loop that hasn't gotten old during the 30 hours I've played the game thus far, especially since the positions of suspects and civilians change with each new mission. The game also features bullet penetration, meaning you'll need to consider the material of the objects you stand behind (you can also shoot enemies through thin walls and flimsy pieces of cover if necessary). Equipment like PepperBall launchers, pepper spray, beanbag shotguns, tasers, tear gas, and flashbang grenades can be used in tandem with verbal barks for compliance to coerce suspects into dropping their weapons and surrendering, rewarding you with a higher score.įittingly, Ready or Not foregoes standard shooter mechanics like sprinting (you can move around a little faster by going into a low ready position) and jumping, instead forcing you to approach situations methodically with crouches and leaning mechanics that allow you to peek around corners while keeping most of your body behind cover. Unlike the vast majority of action-heavy modern shooters such as Call of Duty: Vanguard, Ready or Not encourages you to deal with enemies non-lethally.
Ready or Not's emphasis on non-lethal takedowns is refreshing. The game can be played singleplayer with bots you can command, or with four other human players. You play as a member of a five-man squad of SWAT officers in Ready or Not, and your goal is to tactically infiltrate a number of real-world locations like gas stations, houses, hotels, and car dealerships to rescue hostages, neutralize armed suspects, stop active shooters, and diffuse bombs. The game is the closest thing we've gotten to a sequel to 2005's SWAT 4, and I've been having an absolute blast with it. Over the course of the last few weeks, I've been playing Ready or Not, a Steam Early Access SWAT sim tactical shooter from New Zealand-based VOID Interactive.
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