A two-year-old game is currently causing a sensation with its port to the Xbox, making childhood fantasies come true. This is Hypercharge!
What kid doesn’t dream of their action figures coming to life and actually fighting each other? With a gaming gem that we’ve overlooked for two years, that dream will soon become a reality on Xbox.
This one’s on us
Sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees. That’s probably what happened to us in 2020 when Hypercharge: Unboxed was released on 27 April. Probably between the Corona Lockdown and the Warzone release we didn’t have an eye for this piece of gold. Apparently we weren’t alone, though, because the game didn’t generate much hype in its time, even though it would have more than deserved it. The game has already been released for PC and Nintendo Switch, now the Xbox release follows, which is currently still being worked on. The developers are already busy sharing content on Twitter and showing the Xbox community what they can look forward to. PlayStation users will have to wait a little longer, although a release for the console is planned, an exact date has not yet been set.
xbox fans,
hypercharge is as follows:
– pick your action figure
– spawn in your toy packaging
– break out of it
– kick toy butt in co-op or pvpsend the sign up link to your friends, family, neighbours, cats, dogs, just everyonehttps://t.co/siom0AIxZO
oh and REWEET REWEET pic.twitter.com/kMFJu1NgwB
– Hypercharge – Xbox Players, Sign Up (Check Bio) 👇 (@HyperchargeGame) July 4, 2022
What Hypercharge is all about
In Hypercharge we can let our inner child run free and finally play with action figures again without being looked at funny. The game is a cooperative first-person shooter that can be played with up to four players. However, unlike in Call of Duty: Warzone or CS:GO, our character is not an elite soldier or member of a special unit, but an action figure in the truest sense of the word.
In co-op mode, we can protect the HYPER-CORE from waves of attacking enemies with up to four players. In addition to a large selection of weapons, we also have various traps, defence towers and defensive buildings at our disposal, which we can place in the style of tower defence. The game principle is inevitably reminiscent of the “Orcs must die!” series of games. Those who don’t want to play co-op can shoot their way through the various maps in PVP mode.
The maps are reminiscent of films like Toy Story, Small Soldiers or the old Counter-Strike map de_rats. We fight in miniature between shopping shelves in the toy shop, on countertops in the kitchen, a child’s room or in the garden, which is crammed with toys. In addition to the maps designed with great attention to detail, the first-person shooter has a progression system through which we can unlock new skins for our characters and weapons with earned experience points. Particularly impressive: The developer studio Digital Cybercherries was founded in 2015 by five friends who developed the game single-handedly.
Although some of the action figures are reminiscent of well-known characters from film and television, they are not the originals. Since the game does not yet have any licensing rights to the heroes from Toy Story, Dragonball & Co., we unfortunately have to do without the real Woody, Buzz and Son Goku for the time being. Those who feel like fighting between supermarket shelves, shopping trolleys and the kitchen sink can get started right away on PC and Nintendo Switch. Xbox and PlayStation users, on the other hand, will have to wait a little longer.
