Reagan Gorbachev Review

<p>To me&comma; it is very weird to see games that feature historical figures who were alive when I was around&period; It doesn&&num;8217&semi;t really phase me when I see Leonardo Da VInci or George Washington&comma; but bringing Ronald Reagan into the video game universe vexes me a tad&period; These are historical figures who I remember seeing on the news&period; The others not so much&semi; I&&num;8217&semi;m not that old&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Moving on from my own trepidation&comma; I downloaded <em>Reagan Gorbachev<&sol;em> and found myself enjoying it more than I thought I would&period; The game is set in 1986&comma; during the height of the Cold War&comma; and both President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev have been kidnapped during a summit&period; They find themselves trapped in a prison and must team up to save themselves and the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The controls are very simple in <em>Reagan Gorbachev&period;<&sol;em> You use the left thumbstick to move around and such&period; To switch between Reagan and Gorbachev you simply click on the Right Bumper&comma; this allows you to solve puzzles and trick enemies as you escape&period; The Right Trigger is attack&period; You can use Reagan as your tank with his samurai sword&comma; or silently kill from afar with Gorbachev&&num;8217&semi;s blow dart gun&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t fret&comma; though&comma; those are not the only weapons you get to use&period; You can pick up pistols&comma; silent pistols&comma; shotguns&comma; and so on as you fight your way to freedom&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;100514" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-100514" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-100514 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;03231420&sol;reagangorbachev-2014-07-23-16-28-11-76&period;png" alt&equals;"Reagan Gorbachev 1" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-100514" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Reagan Gorbachev&comma; Team2Bit&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>As with any other game you are given a tutorial as you progress&period; You find out that Gorbachev can hack computers to doors that are Green&comma; doors that are Yellow must be opened with a key&comma; and Red doors can be lock picked by Reagan&period; While you have a gun&comma; you can lock onto enemies with Y and cycle through the enemies with Left Trigger&semi; this helps when you have kill guards quickly&period; If you alert a guard you can be killed with one hit&period; However&comma; if you tap the Left Bumper&comma; the character you are not using will come to your aid&period; This game is&comma; of course&comma; built for two players&comma; but sadly I have no friends and had to play alone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Reagan Gorbachev<&sol;em> has a very nice retro feel to it&semi; I felt like was playing my Super Nintendo again&period; The sprites are nice and the animations aren&&num;8217&semi;t too wonky&period; The little avatars of Reagan and Gorbachev are done pretty well&comma; as is the in between conversations you are privy to after you beat one of the thirty two levels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game even likes to educate by asking you questions about the two past leaders&period; So far I&&num;8217&semi;ve been nailing every question&comma; but I was alive when all this was going down&period; The music fits the game but can grate on one&&num;8217&semi;s eardrums after awhile&period; Once I beat the first level I went and turned down my television so that I wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t get aggravated by the music&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game has a great sense of humor&comma; as well&period; Instead of using the usual humor we see in games today&comma; <em>Reagan Gorbachev<&sol;em> makes you think about the jokes because of its puns or little rips on the time period&period; I enjoy that imaginative humor so much more than the in your face kind of humor we have now&period; The look and feel of the game is great&period; It really pulls on those nostalgia strings if you grew up in 1986 and remember these fellas&comma; or if you grew up playing the Super Nintendo&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The one thing that really hurts this game is the fact that it is extremely repetitive&period; While killing guards as a sixty year old president has its charms&comma; it gets boring after while&period; I can only samurai sword so many people to death before I ask myself&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Is there any more to this game&quest;&&num;8221&semi; Unfortunately&comma; there isn&&num;8217&semi;t&period; I groaned a bit when I found out that there were thirty levels&period; I realize they wanted to give some bang for the buck&&num;8211&semi;it&&num;8217&semi;s too bad that the bang is the same thing over and over&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I may have had more fun if I had a buddy sitting next to me&comma; blow darting people into oblivion&comma; instead of switching characters over and over again&period; Sadly&comma; I may never know&&num;8211&semi;much like I&&num;8217&semi;ll never know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;100524" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-100524" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-100524 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;02&sol;03231336&sol;reagangorbachev-2014-10-01-09-04-20-25&period;jpg" alt&equals;"reagan gorbachev 2" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-100524" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Reagan Gorbachev&comma; Team2Bit&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The novelty of <em>Reagan Gorbachev<&sol;em> is what really sold me on it&period; The added perks were the trivia questions and the well written dialogue between Reagan and Gorbachev during the cutscenes&period; I could have done without the terrible music and repetitiveness&period; If I was going to play a top down one hit kill game&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;d much rather go with <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;hotline-miami-2-wrong-number&sol;">Hotline Miami<&sol;a>&semi;<&sol;em> that one was less about stealth&comma; more about action&comma; and more about masks&period; If you are a history buff or a 16-bit fan&comma; I would suggest <em>Reagan Gorbachev<&sol;em> for you&period; However&comma; if you are unaccustomed to 16-bit or you were a child left behind&comma; you shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t get this game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong><em>An Xbox One code for Reagan Gorbachev was provided by Team2Bit for the purpose of this review<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;