As someone who’s been writing about video games for more than 30 years, one of my pet peeves is when a game developer denies that their game is similar to or influenced by another game or a movie or a TV show. “So, your game is a sci-fi first-person shooter in which you play as a supersoldier in a mech suit…but it’s nothing like Halo? Really?!?”
It’s why I was pleasantly surprised when a representative of Nekki asked me if I wanted to see their upcoming third-person shooter Spine at this year’s Summer Game Fest: Play Days event in Los Angeles…and almost immediately said it was influenced by, and somewhat similar to, both the Batman: Arkham games and the John Wick movies.
And then I was pleasantly surprised again when she handed me the controller.
Here are my impressions of the game.
