A super-fast moving shooter for the CoD fans with very low TTK. There are a few good ideas in Dirty Bomb, certainly nothing revolutionary. The base move speed is so high that ultimately "skill" in this game comes down to how well you can track fast, jerky online movement while clicking mouse1 and little else. You'll want a giant mousepad because this game requires you to spin and spin. There are a number of class abilities, mostly things just yanked from various other games, and while they are quite powerful the game moves too fast for you to pay attention to what anyone else is doing with them. Airstrikes are "casual" and annoying. This is not a thinking man's game. If you want a shooter that's super-twitchy and tosses in the typical class mechanics to hang with the big boys, this is for you. Kudos to the dev team for making levels that can be easily moved through fluidly, as that's probably the best part of the game here. I play a lot of shooters, but for me, this game demands too much from my mouse and not enough for the rest of my brain.

There's potential here sure; it's not a terrible game, it's not buggy and broken, and yeah it's "beta" (experience has taught me not to get my hopes up), but these fast, low TTK, meat grinder-type FPS games really can't be anything but shallow experiences. I didn't hate it, it just left me wanting. And I'm not going to spend my time doing the same thing over and over while it's more of a suggestion of fun than actual fun.

A super-fast moving shooter for the CoD fans with very low TTK. There are a few good ideas in Dirty Bomb, certainly nothing revolutionary. The base move speed is so high that ultimately "skill" in this game comes down to how well you can track fast, jerky online movement while clicking mouse1 and little else. You'll want a giant mousepad because this game requires you to spin and spin. There are a number of class abilities, mostly things just yanked from various other games, and while they are quite powerful the game moves too fast for you to pay attention to what anyone else is doing with them. Airstrikes are "casual" and annoying. This is not a thinking man's game. If you want a shooter that's super-twitchy and tosses in the typical class mechanics to hang with the big boys, this is for you. Kudos to the dev team for making levels that can be easily moved through fluidly, as that's probably the best part of the game here. I play a lot of shooters, but for me, this game demands too much from my mouse and not enough for the rest of my brain. There's potential here sure; it's not a terrible game, it's not buggy and broken, and yeah it's "beta" (experience has taught me not to get my hopes up), but these fast, low TTK, meat grinder-type FPS games really can't be anything but shallow experiences. I didn't hate it, it just left me wanting. And I'm not going to spend my time doing the same thing over and over while it's more of a suggestion of fun than actual fun.