Montag, 7. Oktober 2019

Wot I think: Warsaw

As your tree trunk-limbed mechanic, his oaken legs rippling under his dungarees, sets a row of sunken-cheeked, hollow-eyed Nazis on fire with a makeshift flamethrower, and your lab-coated doctor follows up by yeeting a vial of debilitating probably-not-piss-but-I-like-to-think-it’s-piss at an SS officer’s forehead, a thought may occur. Considering history is a design constraint here, brutal but poignant turn-based tactical RPG Warsaw does a fantastic job of making classes and abilities feel as interesting as any sci-fi or fantasy setting.

It’s the history of the 1944 Warsaw uprising, to be exact. The game places you in charge of the doomed but determined Jewish resistance and asks you to fight tooth and nail for a cause that, tragically, you already know is destined to fail.

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