Ghostwire: Tokyo Doesn't Care How Other FPS Games Do Combat
Most modern first-person shooter video games - Call Of Duty,DOOM, andFar Cry - take place in a military or science fiction setting, but the upcoming Ghostwire: Tokyo, developed by Tango Gameworks, instead couches its FPS gameplay in a world of supernatural horror, with the protagonist using supernatural powers to exorcize the ghosts, Yokai, and urban legends infesting downtown Tokyo. The occult, supernatural themes of Ghostwire: Tokyo and its use of elemental spells and magical talismans in place of guns led to a style of play distinct from other contemporary FPS games. Rather than seeking points of cover or running and gunning, players instead banish monsters using stealth, exploiting the properties of certain elemental attacks, and countering enemy attacks with well-timed blocks.
In the opening of Ghostwire: Tokyo, an eerie sorcerer wearing a traditional Hannya mask unleashes a supernatural fog upon the Shibuya Ward of modern-day Tokyo that causes all the human locals to vanish. In the place of the raptured humans, strange creatures modeled after traditional Japanese Yokai and modern urban legends in Ghostwire haunt Shibuya's streets: umbrella-toting boogeymen with the faceless heads of the Slender Man, Kuchisake-onna ghost-women, bloody mouths behind surgical masks, and so on. The protagonist of Ghostwire: Tokyo, a Shibuya resident named Akito, fuses with a mysterious spirit called KK, using the specter's elemental powers to search for his missing sisters and take back Shibuya from the Hannya mask-wearing sorcerer and their monstrous minions.
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