Spacelords

I loved playing this when I was younger, it's too bad it got left behind, I remember maining the jetpack chef guy, I didn't like the mobile game timers and barely aquirable currencies but the game had style and was fun to play

I enjoyed it. I like the characters, the cinematics, the gample-play and the aestetics. Pitty it doesn't have a larger comunity as it's quite a hidden gem.

Dark Souls of Hero Shooters. You WILL hate this game until you get better at it. By far the most complex Hero Shooter out there and absolutely brutal once you get up to "Normal" difficult around 30 MMR. Be aware this game is not for the feint of heart as it has a very old school mentality and people in the community have low tolerance for whiny rage quitters. If you're willing overcome and maybe even flourish we welcome you to our personal hellscape! Still here 6+ years later and still more popular than Overwatch 2 on launch! Thanks Blizzard for fucking up in such a colossal way!!!

genuinely it's a shame what happened to this game. I remember playing this because I had no money on my ps4 and coming back to this with a name change is certainly interesting.
I took a look into mercurysteams history and what exactly happened here to prompt them to make what is essentially a free to play adventure campaign third person shooter just out of nowhere.
First of all this game is tons of fun. Like it has a great system of picking a mission you've unlocked in the campaign, and then choosing to play what hero you want or if you want to invade a mission as an invading villain. It's a really cool idea that actually works surprisingly well. As for the gameplay it's nearly a mix of what platinum games vanquish was trying to be and warframe. It's only brought down by a few flaws, namely that beyond the story missions there's not much to really do even if what's there feels like a sci fi metal slug. It also noticeably didn't know how to monetize it's own game because of there only being a story campaign leading to the latter half of missions requiring level grinding and then a big push for modifying and levelling the characters and unlocking new ones through grinding or paying. This doesn't mean you can't play through everything here for free, honestly it's pretty much fine. It's just kindof sad to see.
This games campaign is easily worth more than just being free, easily 15$ if not double or triple that. So to see that they tried to do an experimental pvpve asymmetrical co op game that genuinely is really cool and interesting and works within the game they have set up. I can't help but feel that the game might have benefited from making their game more of an MMO instead of a set menu of 16 "adventure missions". A lot of the framework that's here already and a lot of the systems in place for grinding and levelling would not feel out of place at all with an mmo and probably would have had more lasting power and garnered more interest from players instead of making this seem as fleeting as it is.
It really comes into question what exactly the goal with the game was when it demands you only play a mission through MMR matchmaking systems to match you with players despite a bot party system being in place. After playing through a few missions that I can get through solo perfectly fine in a reasonable manner while having it still be challenging is great. After that your mmr ranking will go up and all of a sudden the game will completely change the enemy and mission difficulty making it a bit of a slog for a few missions unless one of the other dozen people still playing this game with me happens to be online and I get lucky and they join me to let me push through a mission.
It's definitely worth playing just to play through the fully cutscene animated story line and also read through a lot of the fun lore entries they built for the game. I really do hope mercurysteam lands their next game blades of fire so that hopefully they get to take another crack at this fun IP they've created for themselves.
edit: there is a dedicated solo mode that you can do, however it's considered a training mode and won't net you anything beyond initial completion rewards and won't mark off achievements, you still need to grind in order to unlock the latter missions regardless as well as characters.

HOOLLY SH One day were my favorite game, unfortunately died. Antagonist system (1v4) fav mode. Rock Paper Scissors fun and lovely. Story and character cool, love them, GIVE ME MORE. Damn cant even describe how awesome this game was. Overwatch suc. I wish this game become alive again. Raider of Broken Planet
Others who says about imbalance just never tried to pick key against. LOVELY MercurySteam

does anyone know what happened to this game? i think it died, but there's no updates that say the servers shut down, and wikipedia isn't even up-to-date, AND it was able to run single-player so i doubt it was specifically DRMed.

I try to steer clear of free to play shooters, mainly due to how much their cheated/hacked on. but this game is actually really good, Ai teammates is as stupid as fortnite's bots though