Who right here recalls Geneshift? The ones with a love of vintage, top-down Grand Robbery Auto most probably do. Launched all of the long ago in 2017, the multiplayer fight royale sport modified its title a couple of years in the past to Gene Shift Auto, in order that it will put on its inspiration on its sleeve. Then again, it is now made up our minds to modify guises all over again – and it is ditching any roughly GTA reference or homage. Gene Shift Auto is now Skillshot Town.
When it first dropped as Geneshift, it was once one of the most most eldritch multiplayer video games round – a top-down, city crime sport impressed via GTA 2, however with a League of Legends-esque gameplay loop the place you may steadily degree up characters via looting and killing fighters right through a fit. It was once launched with an array of multiplayer modes, however lately (and following its title alternate to Gene Shift Town) it is a unfastened Steam sport that performs extra like a fight royale. Robotically, it is nonetheless very an identical – you shoot enemies, force vehicles round a town, and improve your persona’s MOBA-like abilities all the way through the process a fit – however it is extra orientated round being the closing participant or workforce status.
With it being a unfastened multiplayer sport, solo dev Ben ‘bencelot’ Johnson has now rebranded it to Skillshot Town to “draw in the correct of gamers,” reasonably than the ones pondering they have been diving right into a vintage GTA clone.
“The unique title was once selected as a result of Gene Shift Auto sounded so much like Grand Robbery Auto,” he writes in a put up saying the title alternate. “This sport does in any case have law enforcement officials, missions, vehicles, gangsters and extra – and each time I might put up the sport on-line essentially the most upvoted remark was once all the time, with out fail, one thing like ‘omg, this sport appears identical to GTA2!’ So I took that as a just right signal that GTA was once the primary promoting level and one thing to base the title on.”
“As an alternative, we wish a reputation that draws high-skill PvP lovers,” he provides. “Lovers who like developing mixtures, getting flashy kills, mastering their construct, and outplaying enemies. That is the place the replayability of the sport lies – now not the law enforcement officials and missions. That is what helps to keep you taking part in 100+ suits as you release and uncover 1000’s of recent and damaged mixtures.”
Excluding that one time it was once flooded via bots attempting to find Steam Buying and selling Playing cards earlier than its everlasting F2P transfer, the sport’s by no means boasted huge participant counts. Then again, it is was hoping that the rebrand will convey some new gamers to Skillshot Town as bencelot ramps up in opposition to 1.0 – extremely, in spite of being out for 8 years, it is nonetheless technically in early get entry to.
So, a sport now on its 3rd legitimate identify, that is free-to-play, and that combines old-fashioned GTA with LoL – Skillshot Town in point of fact is an anomaly. If you wish to give it a move, you’ll upload it for your Steam library at no cost proper right here.
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