You can’t customise your loadout before a mission.
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But Beyond Enemy Lines: Covert Operations doesn’t possess any of the qualities that made these series so timeless.
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The open-ended nature of each map, the selection of weapons on offer and the ‘choice’ of how to approach each mission and its multiple objectives. This is a game inspired by the classic days of Rainbow Six, Delta Force and SWAT. In reality, the screen just zooms in a fraction and your gun never actually moves. Mercifully, there is an auto lock-on (which you can’t switch off, obviously) and you can still aim down your iron sights – kind of. Want to adjust that those settings? Well, let’s just say there aren’t any settings for you adjust to you’d better get used to aiming in slow-mo. While you can sprint without end, you're forced to move your reticule with all the haste of a heavily-medicated octogenarian. Question is, are you brave enough to pull said trigger?īeyond Enemy Lines: Covert Operations is just a mess. But alas it doesn’t, leaving those brave enough to accept said mission quite the experience to endure. It’s so poor it’s surprising it doesn’t turn its silenced pistol on itself the moment a new mission begins, performing a killing blow of mercy that would be far more satisfying than what actually follows.
A single-player-only shooter so inexplicably bad it makes you long for the days when Nintendo was far more stringent with what appeared on its hardware. Instead, it manages to dig a new basement in quality that’s more likely to make your ticker tick its last tock than flutter with anything resembling hope.īeyond Enemy Lines: Covert Operations is the gaming equivalent of the ‘hold my beer’ meme. Predictably, Beyond Enemy Lines: Covert Operations is not the upper echelon that’s going to lead handheld shooters into a bright new dawn.
Is this it? Could this be the game that firmly cements the genre on Nintendo Switch? We’ve had some impressive attempts thus far ( Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus and DOOM), some decent offerings ( Payday 2 and Paladins) and some average at best results ( Modern Combat Blackout). The heart feels a slight flutter every time a new FPS hits the eShop.