

The result is a series of elegantly designed interiors, imposing buildings and realistic layout. She can also slide along the floor, which is a bit of a new one.Īrchitecture: well, they've done something rather clever here - they actually went out and hired some proper architects to help with the level design. Movement is controlled in much the same way as first-person shoot 'em ups like Quake, meaning that Konoko can strafe from side to side, duck and jump about. Since the bulk of the gameplay consists of Konoko running around, exploring the architecture and beating the piss out of people, let's examine those three points in turn, starting with the running around bit. At which point we'll pause to enable you to crack lots of jokes about 2 Unlimited being rounded up and shot. Instead of hanging around a dreary department store in the 1970s spouting pornographic innuendo about the state of her pussy, Konoko works for something called the TCTF - full title: the Techno Crimes Task Force. She's got purple hair, just like Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served, but the similarity ends there. Like perverts.Īs with Tomb Raider, you get to play a woman, in this case an athletic slip of a thing named Konoko. We'll even lick out the inside of the packaging. If Oni lives up to our expectations, we'll want to kiss it all over when it finally arrives in the dying moments of this year. So forgive us for getting a bit nerdy and excited about Oni, a game which promises to take the very best elements of all three and mix them together in a big gameplay bowl. Hey! Those are three of our favourite things.


Tekken, Tomb Raider, Japanese anime flicks.
