Davis Russel is looking for his kid. He doesn’t need to be messing about with all this gravity manipulation nonsense. But it’s fate or destiny or some shit, as he soon finds himself in a continuing battle for survival against zombified humanoid creatures. One of them is a fat dude who wouldn’t look out of place in Doom 3, in fact.
And just like Davis - an ordinary chap who has the potential for great things - Inversion plays like your standard third-person shooter, with a twist that can be potentially magnificent at best and an entertaining distraction at worst. That twist, as you’ve probably figured out by now, is the ability to mess around with gravity.
Pulling heavy crates from steel cables with high gravity and picking up debris and flicking them at observation towers with low gravity are examples where you can take advantage of the surrounding environment too. I’m hoping that there will be some killer consequences and strategic uses for the gravity manipulation beyond this - some impromptu puzzle-solving perhaps?
Enemies are able to use anti-gravity measures on you as well, so you have to be on your guard. If you’re caught floating in mid-air, you can shift your body across to strafe from enemy fire. It’s also pretty cool to be aiming and taking out Lutadore forces in this state as well. The best use of the gravity system I’ve seen so far is the shockwave attack, which can be used to take out a number of enemies if you get surrounded.
There’s some interesting level design in there too, if not quite linear - a topsy-turvy fight on several walls and surfaces doesn’t disguise the fact that you’re essentially travelling in a straight line. A few things in general combat made things awkward too - the cover system is almost exactly like Gears of War in theory, only finicky (Davis kept rolling when I wanted him to get into cover) and you get knocked over far too often than is entertaining.
