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The Takeover is a side-scrolling beat'em up inspired by 90's classics such as Streets of Rage and Final Fight. Battle solo or alongside a friend in local co-op while listening to awesome tunes from Little V Mills, Richie Branson, James Ronald and industry legend Yuzo Koshiro!
The TakeOver is a beat 'em up, action and indie game
developed and published by Pelikan13.
Released on November 09th 2019 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 1,071 reviews of which 903 were positive and 168 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam with a 80% discount.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7/8/10
- Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core or equivalent
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 660 or equivalent
- Storage: 4000 MB available space
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Got this game on sale, it was the first beat 'em up i've finished, and damn it was a good first experience. I really like these games that have a simple plot with a good ending.
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It is a good beat 'em up with good graphics, mediocre comics art, and a good soundtrack. However, in the middle of the 6th stage, the enemies become very spammy, and you are getting pinned down by them. Had to set the game to easy difficulty to complete it. Apart from the last part of the game, I'd say it's OK overall, but unbalanced at times.
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Pros 1. You can do long combos which is fun. 2. The soundtrack ranges from middle of the road to great. 3. The game offers some nice unlockables such as an extra character and the ability to switch characters in game like a team. 4. The graphics reminds me of Killer Instinct which is nice and a pretty bold move when every beat em up is either pixel art or hand drawn. 5. The campaign has some cool mini game levels that breaks from beating people up. Cons 1. The game is way too long to complete. Unless the game has open world or rpg elements, traditional beat em ups should not take close to 2 hours to finish. 2. Enemies can be fairly tanky. So unless your doing long optimal combos they stick around and can swarm you up pretty fast which can boggle the game and pace. 3. The cutscenes are are in comic form which is a big deviation from the prerender art. 4. A lot of explosives goes off in the later stages which is really annoying. Too many hazards that interrupt flow. 5. The default controls have very awkward button map placing. Lucky you can change it. This game is a love it, hate it kind of game. Do I still recommend it? Yes, in regards to the addicting long combos you can do, but the game has clear faults in it's pacing which makes it frustrating at times. Pick it up when it's on a good sale and you won't regret it.
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good combat system , stunning visuals . i liked the variety in game not just punching there is car chasing here is the negative part , health items have small box to take and to take them you have to press the punch button if you are surrounded by 3-5 enemies forget it it you will keep punching until it disappears , also dropped items vanish very fast and it is annoying , some enemies drop random bomb while you are in sticky situation you can't run or move away you will grab someone unintentionally cuz this is how grab works you just walk toward them and you engage only for the bomb at your feet to explode . also trying to run is very hard to do
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A completely vanilla beat'em up, with as many Pros as it has Cons. Get on sale and play with a friend or solo on normal difficulty. On Normal: the game is fun, not too hard, a bit dull at times, but keeps the core of the game fun. On Hard: the game is frustrating, not well designed and chore that is not fun to go through unless you are a masochist. Better beat'em up include: Streets of Rage 1,2,3 & 4, TMNT: Shredder's revenge, Mother Russia Bleeds, Castle Crashers, Shank 1&2, Gauntlet(By Arrowhead). Pros: Your combos have juggle-ability like in other good fighters You actually have a ranged weapon with limited ammo Rage mode helps with frustrating fights since you cannot take damage and get a significant damage boost The music & level design slaps There are on-rails levels to give you break from the monotonous button mashing You get to pick up ammo for your ranged weapon and a machine gun in certain sections to spice up the gameplay. Cons: There are cheap bosses. When you have no ammo and low health, the spinning bayblade attack that some bosses do is too fast and tracks? With no block option you are always loosing in some way. Other games make these kinds of moves fast but not tracking or slow but tracking. This game chose both hard options and makes it a nightmare to kill these bosses without Rage or Ammo. Bosses have infinite goons. Not a problem in itself, but their respawn speed is too fast, as soon as you kill 1 of them, the moment you hit the boss with a combo you get a spawned good with a gun to shoot or break your combo, and that is if the boss doesn't already break out of your combo with an armored attack or explosion. The result is a lot of frustrating moments, when the solution you should be able to do is kill the goons, hit the boss, rinse & repeat. The melee weapons are slow and lack damage. Normally in these games, melee weapons that you pick up have low durability and do a lot of damage. Weapons here are slow, knock-down enemies, killing your combos, have no durability, but get destoyed if you drop them 2-3 times? That is confusing and unnecessary. I'm better of not using them unless are 4-5 enemies stacked together, which I can very cheaply kill by hitting all of them with the weapon over and over and over again. Some achievements straight up mislead you. The kill 100, 500 achievements do not specify that you have to complete them in 1 run. Which makes 100% completion a chore. Hard difficulty is not balanced: In harder modes in other fighting games you increase the HP and/or numbers of enemies as well as maybe their damage. The problem with this game is that someone thought it was a good idea to increase their movement speed, decision making speed of enemies as well. Resulting in you taking so much damage so fast, that picking any character with lower speed is a death sentence to your combos and life. Survival mode is badly designed: Normally in survival mode you start off easy and slowly spawn enemies of lower tiers ramping it up every few enemies killed or perhaps in waves, making each wave increase in size and enemy tiers and/or strength. Again someone decided that having the same spawning time as the boss's goons is a good idea. Resulting in slower character being swarmed and having no way to killing a single goon, before 2-3 more spawn, walk behind you by the time you finish your 1 combo and give you backshots. You need to play higher speed characters to even survive.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The TakeOver is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam.
The TakeOver is currently available at a 80% discount. You can purchase it for 3.99€ on Steam.
The TakeOver received 903 positive votes out of a total of 1,071 achieving a rating of 8.01.
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The TakeOver was developed and published by Pelikan13.
The TakeOver is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The TakeOver is not playable on MacOS.
The TakeOver is not playable on Linux.
The TakeOver offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
The TakeOver includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
The TakeOver does not currently offer any DLC.
The TakeOver does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The TakeOver supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
The TakeOver is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Pelikan13
Publisher
Pelikan13
Release
09 Nov 2019
Platforms
Remote Play