The gameplay is simplicity itself, your job is to run around immaculately scaled cities and take out all the bad guys you come across on the way. Often sub objectives are given where you have to destroy lifts or teleporters to stop reinforcements and then at the end there's usually a larger than life boss to shave off. Packed with hover cars, heavy ground traffic, floating advertisements, and screaming humans fleeing for their lives, the city literally has a life of its own. Crush cars and tanks underfoot, climb city buildings and swat helicopters while en route to reach mission goals that pop up along the way.

Freedom to move

The controls are fairly simplistic, a combination of jump, movement, thrusters and various other little niggles that all bind to keys on your Keyboard and Mouse. It's as smooth as a pussycat to control, specifically designed so you actually think your controlling a huge hunk of metal, which you are.

AI (Artificial Intelligence) on the other hand comes in quite a varied form, it's clear that this isn't your average console or pc shooting game where movements can be predicted but actually more like a fast paced gun fight with your worst nightmare. Some will stand and shoot; others dodge from side to side or jump high in the air as they try to be clever in their attacks. Slave Zero appears to be alive on screen, breathing and twitching with anticipation. Dodging, shooting, jumping, grabbing, and hoisting are only a few of the fluid animations combined with AI on offer. Not forgetting that your unit itself has all these abilities.

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