REVIEW : Kill It With Fire (PC)
Created by Casey Donnellan Kill It With Fire is a first-person fun action game. In Kill It With Fire, you take the role of an exterminator with a task of dealing with a significant spider invasion. Along the way, you’ll cause huge numbers of ancillary damage and unlock a wide diversity of weapons to beat the eight-legged freaks into next week across the game’s eight levels and exciting Arachno-Gauntlets.
The creeps in Kill It With Fire are normal-sized… and by that, it means normal-sized anywhere but Australia, so they appear harmless, but they’re threats all the same. Some are frosted and hard to see, others jump around, others release ‘spiderlings’ when destroyed, some are… radioactive or explode? While these spiders don’t seem much of a menace they are especially shifty in their numbers and unique abilities, so it’s presumably safer to just burn them all.
KILL THEM HOWEVER YOU CAN
Burning is just one of the various ways that players can take out the arachnoid-menace, There are numerous types of weapons in the player’s arsenal, such as the clipboard which is the prime weapon gamers are loaded with, a bludgeon that is surprisingly powerful against eight-legged beasties. The clipboard also multiplies as the keeper of the list of mission goals that can be accomplished. These goals can incorporate eliminating a certain number of spiders or completing specific movements within an area such as ‘doing the dishes’ in a house or fixing electrical problems at a gas station. Other weaponry includes various types of firearms, the age-old lighter and hairspray trick, a more genuine flamethrower, and even shuriken and C4 explosives. These all become available as the gamer progresses. The variety of the weaponry available is exciting, and each one uses various ammo and ways of communicating with the atmosphere to make for hilariously catastrophic results.
Alongside mission goals, each level has a radio which includes a special timed challenge which becomes unlocked once all the daily goals have been completed for that level. These aptly named ‘Arachno-Gauntlets’ offer exceptional challenges that require good timing and may be best adapted to a return to levels. While fun, these Arachno-Gauntlets also serve the added purpose of assisting players to get used to planning, making use of certain weaponry that may not be component of their main kit or discovering more efficient ways to lure and tail spiders. Along with being a ‘competitive’ addition, they can also perform as a training mode of sorts since so long as the Gauntlet is running many spiders will spawn.
Throughout the game, especially in hidden areas, gamers may spot folders labelled with the Greek ‘Omega’ symbol. This is great and subtle foreshadowing in a game that doesn’t have any conversation to speak of for an event in the final pieces of the game, giving quite a bit of connective muscle in a game that emerges on the surface to be nothing more than a mere destructive romp against spiders.There is one flaw in Kill It With Fire is that ammunition for precise weapons can often be difficult to find, particularly in a level where players didn’t originally open that weapon. When the weapons are first discovered, there’s often lavish ammo offered to allow them to get adapted to it. As a result, any weapon that requires ammo of some kind may need to be used sparingly.
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