Grissallia<p>Feb 2, 2023 - Day 33 - NewPlay Review<br>Total NewPlays: 40</p><p>Game: Agents of Mayhem<br>Platform: Steam PC<br>Release Date: Aug 16, 2017<br>Library Date: May 26, 2020<br>Unplayed: 982 days (2y8m7d)<br>Playtime: 41m</p><p>From the developers who brought you Saints Row, Saints Row 2, Saints Row The Third, the over-the-top Saints Row IV: Re-Elected, Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, and Saints Row (a reboot of Saints Row that shares a name and little else) comes a repetitive "open-world" action-adventure game vaguely connected to Saints Row (but not the reboot) that is to action-adventure games what Hush Puppies are to high fashion.</p><p>You play as a squad of three characters, that you can switch between mid-fight. Like Trine, but somehow less fun.</p><p>The game is set in a largely deserted, but very pretty, representation of a futuristic version of Seoul. The gameplay is smooth, the mechanics proficient, the characterisation and voiceovers are well done.</p><p>I played through two missions; all the pieces of something entertaining are there, yet somehow fail to mesh into something I want to keep playing.</p><p>I can't put my finger on what's missing, just that it is. A little less polish, and this would be "meh", but for me Agents of Mayhem just scrapes across the line to:</p><p>3: OK</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AgentsOfMayhem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgentsOfMayhem</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ThirdPersonShooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThirdPersonShooter</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/OpenWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenWorld</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365ONG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365ONG</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Project365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Project365</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewPlay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewPlay</span></a></p>