Most of the upgrade machines outside of the tower wouldn’t work for me, and a few times I fell through the world itself. My only option would be to sheepishly jump to my doom and restart from the last checkpoint.Įven ignoring frame rate issues that might be fixed by launch, I would occasionally hit technical woes that drew me out of the experience. Instead, I’d land on some awkwardly placed scenery that wouldn’t kill me, but also wouldn’t let me get back up to the play area. Too often however, when I fell short of a platform or a wall, I wouldn’t fall to my death. That’s fine, it’s all part of the experience. The number of jumps I fumbled in my playthrough is either hilarious or embarrassing, depending on how you look at it. This means a problem that was rare but annoying in the original is now fairly common and annoying. The environments are however taller, wider, and more open.

Ghost's bustedĮven outside the tower, things aren’t significantly less linear than in the first game. The problem with Ghostrunner 2 as a whole, and especially with the bike sequences, is that there’s too much of it.

There’s one great bike sequence involving escaping from (and then riding through) a giant mechanical worm, and that gives a glimpse of what could have been. There are some neat ideas-leaping over laser gates mid-ride, then grappling back to your bike without slowing down, ranged and melee attacks while riding, riding along walls and ceilings then back down to the ground again-but none of them are exploited to their full potential. Its primary function is to carry you from area to area of the disappointingly beige semi-open world. If you played the demo and weren’t impressed by the bike section that ended it, I’m afraid it rarely gets any better than that.

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