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Weapons and abilities: from the plasma rifle to the grappling hook
In Play mode you are Roger, a hero with a weapon wheel of eleven weapons and a set of abilities. Everything is unlocked from the start, and the same arsenal is there in the Arena.
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The weapon wheel
- Plasma rifle: charges into a MEGA BEAM.
- Minigun: pairs with Bullet Time.
- Railgun: calls lightning down.
- Fire Gun.
- Black Hole Gun.
- Katana: a melee weapon. Draw a line in first person and it cuts along it; aliens and people fall in two.
- Gravitron: opens a gravity rift, a violet vortex on the ground. Everything inside the circle floats up, including people, cars, trees and the alien ships.
- Desert Eagle.
- Rocket Strike (the Designator): a camera cut to a satellite that lets a rocket go, or a fire bomb, steered to a red ring with the movement keys.
- Telekinesis: lift a car, person, alien or ship you are looking at from up to 90 metres, hold it in stopped time, then throw it far.
- Grappling hook: throw a kunai on a chain to pull an alien to you or zip yourself to a wall or a heavy enemy.
Abilities
- Q Time Slow.
- E Teleport.
- R EMP.
- B Call for backup: a ship lands ten samurai at the marker.
- Space jetpack: one press flies, with no fuel limit.
- V Invincible, a toggle that stops all harm except one boss's punch.
On a phone
Play mode clears the screen on a touch device. A floating joystick on the left moves, the right thumb looks, and thumb-sized buttons fire, aim, switch weapon and use the six abilities.
Frequently asked questions
- How many weapons are there?
- Eleven on the wheel, including telekinesis and the grappling hook.
- Is there a jetpack?
- Yes. Press Space once to fly; there is no fuel limit.
- Does the co-op guest get every weapon?
- The guest has a wheel of six weapons: everything except the Gravitron.