The latest Epic gift is stylish cyberpunk and puts your reflexes to the test

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Ghostrunner – test video for the bloody cyberpunk Mirror’s Edge

As cyborg ninja Jack you fight your way through 17 sections of a huge tower. Your goal is revenge against the owner of the city-sized building, who almost killed you in a duel.

You spend a large part of your playing time interacting with the… Parkour skills from Jack to make his way through the levels. You run along walls and overcome large chasms with long jumps or a laser liana. At the same time, you dodge projectiles and attacks and kill numerous enemies.

As we discovered in our test, Ghostrunner manages to flow fairly smoothly and at a high pace. This isn’t even hindered by your death, although death will happen to you quite often.

Because if you get hit by a punch or a bullet, that’s what makes the game one fairly high level of difficulty has. However, this rule also applies to your opponents, which turns individual passages of the game into a kind of puzzle. You have to find the best way to kill the enemies without getting killed yourself.

This is primarily what you use yours for Katana and every now and then too Throwing stars. However, you have the option of logic puzzles unlockable combat augmentations to obtain and improve new skills. This allows you, for example, to slow down time, use your sword to fend off projectiles, or carry out a powerful blow that hits several enemies at once.

By the way, the second part appeared last year. It tries out a few innovations, but as you can read in the test linked above, perhaps it should have been better limited to the strengths of its predecessor.

What do you think of the new free game from Epic? Will you play Ghostrunner? Feel free to write it to us in the comments.