Wake up! It’s the future now. Don’t worry: eSports grew and grew in exactly the fashion you hoped it would, swallowing pop culture whole. But as synthetics began to seep into human society, contact sports took a turn for the weird - eschewing sentient players for remotely controlled robots who offered the satisfying crunch of metal-on-metal. PcGamesN delves into Frozen Cortex for this thrilling review.
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Almost anyone would say that American football and cyberpunk turn-based tactics have no business being in the same game together, but that assertion is actually rather shallow. With its frequent play stoppages and emphasis on formations, American football is a lot more tactical than its stereotypical player and fan image would suggest, and the existence of Blood Bowl proved long ago that hardcore nerd and jock pastimes can coexist surprisingly well. Mode 7 Games have brought this mentality to Frozen Cortex, the spiritual successor to their cerebral X-COM tribute, Frozen Synapse. The result is conceptually brilliant, but fumbles its execution in a number of key areas.
