It’s good to see that Sega is still taking things too far for their own good, and a perfect example of this is its recent title The Club, a game that shows you you can never be too rich or too homicidal.
Basically, The Club is a lot like Twisted Metal, only without useless things like cars or clever backstories. The Club is an illegal underground deathmatch in which thugs and scoundrels from all walks of life are given access to large weapons and set loose inside abandoned settings filled with random people with guns, where they will be told to run around like lunatics and increase each other’s body weight by systematically injecting as much lead as possible into each other’s skin, to be repeated until the subjects are dead. Just kidding–they’ll be told to shoot each other. A lot.
That’s it. That’s the entire game. You run through about eight different maps with one of eight different avatars and you blast things. Oh, sure, you’ll do your blasting in different WAYS sometimes–some levels won’t allow you to move past a set area marked with traffic cones and chalk outlines lest the “micro-explosives” you’ve been implanted with detonate. Sometimes you’ll be running laps of a circuit, trying to string together sufficient kills to keep your It’s all about two important things, you see–moving fast and shooting stuff.