
Small ledges in many games have to be circumvented by foot, but Dirty Bomb encourages you to embrace speed, allowing you to bounce from a wall to a new plateau while still moving at a vigorous pace.ĭirty Bomb is all about completing objectives. Stairs descending at a sharp angle can be bypassed with speed by jumping and giving the elbow a swift kick, propelling you forward. The maps do a fine job of supporting wall bouncing, though.
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The free running, however, has diminished to hopping off walls, either to adjust your movement angle or to reach higher ledges. Though made by the same creator, the two games aren't really siblings-more like cousins that used to jump over chest-high walls in their youth. There is a shred of Brink's spirit still alive within Dirty Bomb: a freedom of movement, heavily toned down. Watch for snipers at every corner and angle! Beyond that, however, it just doesn't do anything special. It's fast and frantic, it looks great, and the running, jumping, and shooting elements have an excellent tactile fluidity that makes the high-speed combat instantly accessible and able to entertain for hours. But it's not as if the game isn't fun to play. Even its name sounds like the last to survive a whiteboard list of slashed, rejected titles. These all too familiar elements, however, prevent Dirty Bomb from defining its own identity and standing out among the crowd of its brethren.


There are ingredients from Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2, Call of Duty, and, of course, developer Splash Damage's own shooter Brink it's a melting pot of good ideas from the past. In fact, if you're well-versed in shooters, you can spot where Dirty Bomb derives its influence. Unfortunately, a lack of fresh ideas keeps the game from being memorable, while some bothersome glitches and lag stifle your enjoyment. This fire-from-the-hip shooter arms you with shotguns, sniper rifles, knives, and, fittingly enough given the ongoing motifs, a cricket bat. It's a twitch shooter at its most extreme: an arena of quick kills, high energy, and tired pinky fingers mashing down the sprint key. In Dirty Bomb, ruined London streets and abandoned train stations play host to multiplayer skirmishes where teams fight to complete objectives amid a hail of white-hot gunfire.
