Awkward Mixture's First Person, Sci-Fi Shooters of 2020: A Chart Comparison

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Awkward Mixture's First Person, Sci-Fi Shooters of 2020: A Chart Comparison

Compiling charts comparing components of critiqued games has become a thing here at Awkward Mixture.  

This year Awkward Mixture included four First Person Shooters, and here is a chart with the relevant, and irreverent, data.

 

	Prey + Mooncrash	Fallout 4 + Far Harbor	SUPERHOT: MCD	Apex Legends
General	FPS, RPG,	FPS, RPG, Open World	FPS	Free to Play, FPS, Battle Royal
Date Released	2017	2015	2020	2019
Developer	Arkane Studios	Bethesda	SUPERHOT Team	Respawn
Publisher	Bethesda	Bethesda	SUPERHOT Team	EA
Visual Quality	Good	Poor	Great	Great
Learn Abilities	Insert needle with alien genetic material into brain	Upon level up	Temporarily after battles	Already know them all
Enemies	Typhon and mad scientists	Ghouls, Bandits, Super Mutants, Synths, and MIT	RED DUDES, also Encryption Foes	Fellow Competitors
Setting	Alternative History, Talos Space Station, overrun by aliens	The post-apocalyptic Commonwealth	Inside the mind, inside a computer	Massive Arenas, also the planet Talos
Colors	Gold and Bronze	Brown, Black, and #B7410E	Red, White, and Black	Depends on the Arena
Most Powerful Weapon	Recycler Grenade	Mini-Nuke!	All kill in one	Changes from Season to Season
RPG System	More than minimal, less than moderate, spend points to pick abilities	Moderate, with character levels, skills, and proficiencies	Minimal	None
3rd Person?	No	Yes, but I prefer 1st	No	No
Companions	No. Acquaintances mostly dead	Wasteland Wanderers, and a dog	None	Two squad mates
Battle	Try to take enemy by surprise	Low damage drags out combat	One vs ten	3 v 3 Firefights
Plot	Aliens assault capitalist, scientific research space station	Wife murdered, son kidnapped. Recovery and Revenge	Trapped. Addicted. Less relevant than original game	Legends compete in bloody sports for rewards. Background flavor
Difficulty	Not very	Not very	Very	Very, Very, Very
The Map	Massive space station	Everything within Route 95's circle of Boston	Thirty-two different rooms	Three different gigantic Arenas
Predecessor	Prey (2006)	Fallout New Vegas	SUPERHOT	Titanfall 2
Movement	Depends on installed Neuromods	Can barely walk or jump	Time only moves when you do	Run, jump, zip-line, drop, and slide
Essentially	At first, be terrified of the powerful Typhons. At the end, run straight at the Typhon, because you've become one yourself.	Clear historic Massachusetts locations of the same five enemies 100 times	Fight the same RED DUDES in 32 different locations, at slow speed, repeatedly	Drop, loot, die. Drop, loot, fight, die. Drop, loot, die. Drop, loot, win fight, get third partied by two other squads simultaneously, die.
Time Played	45.8 Hours	65.2 Hours	19.2 Hours	206 Hours
Most Interesting Mechanic	Mimic Matter	Bethesda even made the jetpack boring	Time only moves when you do	Game designs to encourage cooperative play (Ping, Revive, and Dropping systems)
Most Like	Bioshock	Fallout 3	SUPERHOT	PUBG
Recommendation	Highly Recommended	Not Recommended, unless special attachment to Boston	Recommended	Highly Recommended

Before the New Year, look for the final political article, the year end review, and the video game awards, to wrap up 2020.

Recent:

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Fallout 4: The Fall and Rise of the Commonwealth

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Prey: A Futuristic Product, with a Horrifying Ingredient