REVIEW : Get Over Here (XBOX Series X)
Remember the battlefield games trend of the 1990s? No, me neither. But apparently, there was one, and Get Over Here intends to recreate that era and invoke some nostalgia. In this play you find yourself immersed in a deadly truth show, where you’ll need to constantly get stuck into four-way battles, starring some pretty insane characters and off-the-wall contest arenas.
Each character is provided with a hook gun and a finishing attack. The simple aim is to get out as many of your opponents as feasible, by appending your Hookshot to them, and then pulling them back in for the kill. If you’re not quick enough, another player can swoop in and steal your kill or solely choose to take you down instead, whilst you are distracted. Doing so can be pretty gratifying.
Things will randomly fall to temporarily alter combat conditions, such as impairing all player hook guns or distorting the screen as if your characters are drunk. However, the items finish up simply getting it even more difficult to understand what is occurring on earth.
You can also change the battle and winning conditions, but for goodness sake don’t choose “Kills and Deaths” alongside a point limit, as the match will most likely go on endlessly. This is because you have to complete the required kill to death ratio, which is no simple task. The other, more pleasant battle situations you can set include having a set number of lives, achieving a kill streak or simply hitting a kill target. In an extension of this, you can also set the match duration in minutes or points, as well as toggle what items you would like to be thrown into the fray.
It’s fair to say Get Over Here is complete destruction and not in all the ways expected. It’s pretty difficult to trace what’s going on, never mind successfully executing your finishing move on an opponent. You’ll either get caught out by an environmental risk, such as a car or falling rocks, or someone will come along to interrupt your finisher. It’s not helped by the fact that the controls don’t feel very responsive, and the battle arenas feel quite small when four people are duking it out, so you’ll struggle to rack up the kills at first. It surely takes a while to get the hang of it.
Even when you do, sadly, the gameplay seems more like button-bashing than anything else. You’re seemingly incapable to defend yourself from other hook guns, and as a consequence, you resort to attempting to kill as many opponents as possible to win, which directs the gameplay into a grind. At its core, Get Over Here is loud, crude and hard to get to grips with; despite the simple premise, it never quite clicks, and even though you get an ample amount of options for the price, the play loses its appeal fairly quickly.
You can play solo with CPUs, however, it’s more pleasant to play with friends. Of course, this will be interesting given the current limitations unless you’ve got gamers in the house. If you do, you can team up, or leave it as every player for themselves. Unsurprisingly, given getting Over Here will only set you back £4.19, there is no online play option to choose.
However, as well as quick matches there are other methods you can playGet Over Here. Firstly, Tournament Mode allows you to fight to take the top spot in a series of four matches. Each is set under random circumstances, but all play identically as the Quick Matches. You’ll also get the opportunity to include items in some of the events if you wish to.
As well as this you can play Soccer Mode, which is probably Get Over Here at its most absurd it’s uncertain unsettling if I’m honest. This style sees two sides battle it out to hook a shielded chicken, and then fire it across the opposing team’s line to score a goal. You’ll strive to score due to the mistake of the control setup, making it very frustrating to operate. What also doesn’t help is that at irregular times I’ve found my character immobilised and unable to move. It was only when I was hit and respawned that I could move around again. A word of warning here this has happened across different styles whilst playing, and is not just isolated to the soccer match.
In all modes, you get access to thirteen playable personas and eleven fight courses right off the bat. There are no unlockables here to work towards sadly, which may have served to breathe some more replayability into the game. However, it’s a large amount of content given the games more than the reasonable price tag.
The characters in getting Over Here have a certain style to them, with each being distinctly different from each other. The soundtrack is fairly mediocre, although the repeated taunts of each character will annoy you very soon. For the most part, the characters help cement the overall vibe of the game, that being utter chaos.
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