Morgan has been writing for PC Gamer since 2018, first as a freelancer and currently as a staff writer. He has also appeared on Polygon, Kotaku, Fanbyte, and PCGamesN. Before freelancing, he spent most of high school and all of college writing at small gaming sites that didn't pay him. He's very happy to have a real job now.
What's that? Sorry, I can't hear you: I'm having the time of my freakin' life soaring through the air at 120mph on a hoverboard, popping a clean kickflip as my sniper crosshair intersects with the goon's noggin—boom, headshot—and sticking the landing. The pitch for
This game somehow exists on our plane when it clearly belongs in a better reality where Tribes and Counter-Strike surf servers became the dominant FPS template of the 2000s. Echo Point Nova doesn't even pretend that its story is important, but you learn from chat logs that pop up at checkpoints that you've crash landed on a planet of sky islands and need to fight your way off it. There's a critical path that cruises through the campaign in a few hours, but the real meat of Echo Point Nova is exploring its kilometers-wide map, taking on increasingly difficult combat arenas and challenging your movement skills.
By default the world is in free skate mode, letting me wander around practicing risky jumps, testing the limits of the grapple hook, or hunting down Agility Orbs straight out of the Crackdown series. When I'm itching for a fight, I can head towards one of the dozens of orange sky beams marking a combat challenge. These are literally opt-in Doom shootouts where you have to constantly move and pick off escalating waves of soldiers, drones, and mechs. Combat is where you truly get to flex.
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