Nex Machina Review

Nex Machina is an arcade twin stick top down shooter from Housemarque who brought you such great titles as Resogun, Dead Nation and Alien Nation. The game is a modern take of Robotron 2084 or you can also call it a spiritual successor, as it was a collaborated project between Housemarque & Eugene Jarvis who was the original creator of Robotron. It’s colourful, it’s vibrant & it’s explosive. The graphics in this game are stunning as it provides a clean presentation. The game is also PS4 pro enhanced & it runs at a blistering 60fps across the board.

The story is brief but straight to the point, you play as a hero that’s trying to save what’s left of humanity during the skynet style apocalypse, The story is pretty much told during gameplay. the game has 5 worlds you can play through, the gameplay is fluid and smooth. It’s also fast pace & intense, plus it’s challenging even on the easiest difficulty, once you play on a higher difficulty you get more AI on screen & they become far more aggressive, you can get through the arcade mode on a higher difficulty level depending on your skill and strategy. You can also dash to avoid enemy attacks. The game can be a little punishing when you get 1 hit deaths from an enemy bullet or if you run in to them, once you die you have to restart the entire section.

The game has a variety of weapons including a laser beam gun & a sword for mele combat. Your main objective is destroy certain enemies & move on to the next section, you also get secondary objectives where destroy bacons & save humans. The boss fights can be tricky but once you get use to the speed & pattern you should be able to beat them.

The weapons have great sound plus techno style soundtrack is amazing & it suits the sci-fi tone of the game. The game took me just over an hour to beat but there’s still other modes you can play like arena where you get high scores & collect medals or you can replay all 5 worlds. The game has couch co op but unfortunately it doesn’t have online co op where you can play online with your friends. If you want a game that’ll test you then Nex Machina will definitely be a great addition to your games library.