More often than not your main course of action will be to gun down the horde, painting the concrete with bursts of purple synthetic blood. No vehicles currently exist the 1.5km by 1.5km arena, making it much more challenging (and less of an option) to outrun the corrupted near-humans. In teams of three you scour the world trying to avoid, or slaughter, the hordes of “Nanos” that populate it. You start with a basic loadout of weapons - I began with a low-powered silenced pistol, for example - but then are encouraged to loot around the map and expand your arsenal. It isn't quite the squad-based shooting and looting of The Division, nor is it carnage on the scale of World War Z.Įach round of Synced’s main game mode lasts around 20 minutes. It isn’t committed to being a battle-royale either, choosing to focus more on survival than murder. It isn’t quite the squad-based shooting and looting of The Division, nor is it carnage on the scale of World War Z. Synced is an amalgamation of numerous other games, and at first glance struggles to strive for originality. Then in the span of a week, your images will be studied in a photogrammetry studio in China, with the end result being a fully realised 3D version of your head available to download into the game, ready to go face-to-face with around 1,500 angry cyborgs.ġ,500 angry cyborgs AND 47 other humans, that is, 2 of whom are your teammates. In Synced’s case, all you’ll need to do is send 4 photos of your various facial angles over to developer NeXT Studios.

But in the age of FaceApp and the willingness of people to sign their likenesses over to such companies, this sounds like a far less appealing novelty. It’s a feature reminiscent of Tony Hawk’s Underground, where you were only one email and a few hours of processing time away from seeing your blocky face performing McTwists on a New Jersey cul-de-sac. That way you can truly see how you’d hold up against a cyborg uprising from the comfort of your own home. Synced: Off-Planet, the new PvPvE shooter being published by multinational conglomerate Tencent, wants you to send photos of yourself to them in order to get your face in the game.

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