And most importantly, it’s never annoying. It’s not very memorable, but it feels suitably “cyberpunk”. The music is decent enough, as far as background music goes. There are also some neat details here and there, hinting at a larger world than what we get to see. At least every region feels unique, and seeing a new region for the first time is quite fun. It’s weird, because when the game looks good, it looks really good (for a mid-budget game), but then you have those small wrinkles that just pull the overall impression down a bit. But then you’ve got blurry facial textures and many things have an odd sheen to them that makes the game look somewhat cheap. The way the levels look, the lighting and so on look quite good. Sometimes you get some weird events Graphics & SoundĬonglomerate 451 gives a somewhat mixed impression when it comes to its graphics. Each region you get to visit has a small writeup, which explains a bit about its backstory, ranging from an underwater habitat to a hab block to a foundry and so on, and you also find some small text logs as you explore the different levels, that you can decode, to find out a bit more about the world, but apart from that, there’s not a whole lot, and you can go several levels without learning anything more about the setting. After the introduction, there’s not a whole lot of story in the game. While the premise is interesting, the story does ultimately fall somewhat flat. Instead of recruiting new agents from the outside, you can just make the ones you need, which underpins one of the core ideas of the cyberpunk genre, that life is cheap and people are expendable. And to help you in your task you’ve been given the permission to create clones of agents. You’re the leader of a special agency, and your job is to push back against these huge corporations and restore a semblance of order to the city. Big neon signs, large slums segregating the poor from the rich, people running around with katanas for no sensible reason, chunky cybernetics and big corporations that pretty much run the show.Īnd this is where you come in. Think Neuromancer, Shadowrun (minus the fantasy elements) or Cyberpunk 2020, and you have Conglomerate. If you’re familiar with the style of Cyberpunk that was big in the 80’s and early 90’s, then the setting in Conglomerate 451 will feel immediately familiar.
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