The Ascent - Review @ PC Gamer UK

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PC Gamer UK has reviewed the The Ascent:

The Ascent review

A quality action RPG set in a mind-blowing cyberpunk city.

Along with thousands of other galactic migrants, your character in The Ascent pays a small fortune for a ticket to the planet Veles, looking for a better life. The moment you step off the ship, however, the price of the ticket becomes a debt so astronomical that you'll probably die before you can pay it off. Even so, the company that owns the massive city you now call home, the Ascent Group, wants its pound of flesh. You are now an indent--slang for an indentured labourer--working dirty, dangerous jobs to pay it off. So much for a better life. Those advertising blimps in Blade Runner were full of shit.

The Ascent's setting, a mix of neon-flecked '80s cyberpunk and grimy science fiction, is magnificent. The story takes place in an Arcology--a self-contained city squeezed into an immense skyscraper--and it's obscene with detail. Think Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City, crossed with Akira's Neo Tokyo, and populated by the scuzzy aliens from the Mos Eisley cantina. It's a dazzling urban crush of tight-knit markets, bustling plazas, cavernous concrete valleys buzzing with streams of flying cars, and colossal neon billboards casting coloured light over the cluttered, teeming streets.

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The Ascent
A lovingly crafted action RPG with challenging, satisfying gunfights and an extraordinary cyberpunk setting.

Score: 84/100
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I rather play cyberpunk 2077 again instead of this game.:p
 
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