One of the rare games with good gameplay, graphics, sound and story/lore. Recommended for anyone who likes shooters. If I go in detail, the game looks pretty but everything important, like enemies, are still clearly distinguishable. Together with the music the game has a not so often seen atmosphere, which is then improved again by the very well written lore. There is little story to the missions but the lore for weapons and vehicles make Solo Nobre feel like a real place. The gameplay looks simple at first but soon starts to show good depth. The whole environment is destructible, which allows you to flank enemies through buildings and forces you to find better position as the level gets more ruined. When you start a mission you can go stealthy, avoiding raising alarm but when you fail that you can still shoot your way out. You have health and shield, none regenerates but you can pickup shield and ammo from dead enemies. You can even be reckless if you can kill and collect shield bubbles fast enough. Enemies will investigate noise and you can choose to sacrifice ammo towers and blow them up with it. Everything you encounter in game you can drive and shoot yourself. While some weapons feel the same, most have their own niche and they are all satisfying to use, not to mention you can also ram/stomp the enemy. There is also support equipment such as smoke or invisibility and the vehicles even have a horn. The campaign missions put you into various situations and levels usually have more than one way how to complete them. You choose difficulty by picking one of four brigadors and earned money serves for unlocking stuff for Freelance mode. No leveling up, just your guns and your skill.
If you like these old platformers, you might want to pick this up for the first two games but I wouldn't waste time on the last two successors. The Deserted Pirate's Hangout is short and simple, challenging but fair (except invisible fall-through blocks in final levels). I would say I liked it the most out of these games. Haunted Mansion is also pretty good though significantly harder thanks to certain difficult to deal with enemies and some cheap deaths (spiders over stairs, knives from off screen). At least lives are plentiful. Risky Rescue is, on the other hand, bad. In my opinion it looks worse and plays worse then the previous game. You can die by falling from too high, you can barely take out dogs even if you know they are there, the levels are hard to follow and score means nothing since it doesn't reset between deaths while levels do. Dave Goez Nutz! is even worse in every aspect. Rated separatly I would give them 4/5, 3/5, 1/5, 1/5.
