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RIVE - details from updated build

by rawmeatcowboy
09 October 2015
GN Version 5.0

- most likely due out in 2016
- side-scrolling shmup and platformer shooting
- basic puzzle solving thrown in with hidden paths or the use of hacking
- hack robots of various kinds to provide support such as health regeneration or extra gunning
- right stick shoots
- four types of secondary weapons assigned to the face buttons
- these vary from seeking missiles to the equivalent of a powerful shotgun-style blast
- power-up drops come in the form of health and sub weapon ammo
- only have one sub-weapon shot at a time at the start
- gameplay is largely linear with humorous narrative thrown in
- no life system, but plentiful checkpoints
- designed for skilled gamers that want a challenge
- some areas have hovering and anti-gravity

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