As an extraction shooter in which players must contend with threats from enemy AI as well as other players following their own agendas, Arc Raiders is primed to generate loads of unexpected emergent situations. It feels trite to say "you never know what's going to happen" in a match of Arc Raiders, but after about 50 hours with the game, it feels very true.
I've played a lot of zombie games, and while I often enjoy them a great deal, rarely do I find myself stopping to gawk at the scenery. Setting a game like this in the Swiss Alps is fantastic. But even if this game was set in a much less pretty locale, I'd still be super into it as it feels like the culmination of a decade-plus of Techland making these kinds of RPG zombie adventures. Just don't pay too close attention to the main story.
From start to finish, it offers hardly a moment of reprieve from its fast-paced parkour and swordplay. That can be a lot to handle, and it's certainly not my preferred mode in most games, but the total focus that it demands becomes so absorbing it's hard not to find some appeal in it. Getting into the flow of Ghostrunner 2 means letting everything else slip out of mind so you can better concentrate on what's in front of you.
