While Switch is starting to get a handful of decent military-style FPS shooters, it still lacks the world’s most famous example of that genre – Call of Duty.
Activision seems content to sit it out as far as Switch is concerned, but until that changes, Nintendo fans are short on viable options – and sadly, we’re not sure that Beyond Enemy Lines: Essentials is going to change that situation.
A snow-covered successor to Beyond Enemy Lines: Covert Operations, Essentials features a new 4-mission campaign, 3 new self-contained ‘single’ missions and a selection of new weapons to make use of.
It will have to go a long way to overcome the issues which plagued its forerunner, however. We awarded it a paltry 3/10 last year, stating:
Beyond Enemy Lines: Covert Operations is an Early Access game that’s come out of the oven less than half-baked. The good intentions of the developer are clear to see in the open-ended nature of each map and the way you approach each objective in your way by opening locked doors and hacking computers rather than shooting your way into a facility, but none of the mechanics in place ever make these conditions feel reliable or rewarding.
Will you be giving it a chance regardless?
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Unless it reviews well, I'm cool off this probable dumpster fire.
Hard pass unless someone verifies it as gaming software.
This map in the screenshots remind me of an FPS I played on GameCube, was it a James Bond game (Nightfire) ? Does anybody know ?
@echoplex I think you're right! That snow level was pretty memorable in that game, must have been an early level
I wouldn’t mind seeing the original Ghost Recon: Island Thunder on switch. Switch hardware should be capable of running it decently. If they were to get the MP aspect of that game on switch as well it would be very popular. I remember it being basic but very fun.
@echoplex
Yeah I remember playing Nightfire on my OG Xbox. It was pretty fun!
@Kintypoo121 @SecretAgentCat Nightfire was a nice game. I think I spent as much time playing it as I did GoldenEye on N64. The multiplayer was truly great.
@echoplex
Oh yeah, Goldeneye was THE game back then for MP. Friends and I had a rule, you use Oddjob, you get beat in real life! Lol
@SecretAgentCat I was a short kid, so I exclusively used OddJob We didn't know at the time that his hitbox was much smaller than the rest of the characters, haha!
@echoplex Yeah the multiplayer was good! Still pined for Goldeneye levels of greatness in a console FPS though, think I still do! Huddled around a friend's 15" TV, surprised we didn't all go blind!
@Kintypoo121
Yeah! Lol
I made a cross divider and taped it to my 19” Sony so we would have two people sitting under the divider and two people standing above it so we couldn’t see each other’s screens. The two people that were sitting had to be right on top of the screens soaking up all that glorious photon bombardment, the two people that had the lower scores would have to stand. Lol
@SecretAgentCat Haha that's a genius solution! Bravo!
We would all screencheat, it was a chaotic free-for-all with that game. Ah, good times, good times!
@echoplex Probably the opening level (?) of Nightfire indeed. Me it reminded of a game I have fond memories of: Hidden & Dangerous 2 on pc.
We just need Call of Duty....
I don't want Call of Duty style bs Games on Switch, I want something like the good old Rainbow Six Vegas or Splinter Cell.
@SecretAgentCat I would love to see some classic Tom Clancy on the Switch!
@JayJ
Hell yeah Jay!
Would it kill Activision to put a CoD game on the Switch? At least give us some remasters! Still playing Black Ops II on Wii U...
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