In both cases I was left with the bitter taste of disappointment. It’s a concept that begged to be further explored. There’s even a part where you have to snipe the handcuffs off your teammate’s hands to break him free, which was really satisfying. One of the few memorable moments has you swapping between a footsoldier trying to escape enemy capture and a sniper, so you’re giving yourself cover fire. Though Catalyst’s story makes little sense and almost none of the moment-to-moment gunplay is engaging, switching between different squadmates is an interesting mechanic that shows its potential now and again.
It’s still utterly unclear to me why, which is disappointing given Remedy’s history of making bizarre characters on the edge of insanity work well. What follows is a bizarre mission to save one of your own squadmates while the main protagonist descends into madness for… reasons. The first, Operation Catalyst, has you working with a squad of some of the most generic soldiers in recent memory as they set out to kill a leader of their rival organization in the fictional country of Azkharzia. This pair of three-hour campaigns both feel like a hundred military shooters I’ve played over the years and immediately forgotten. As a single-player game, CrossfireX is very much a bomb. Both of CrossfireX’s campaigns are built around the pointless adventures of dull characters, never approach anything resembling a challenge due to enemy AI that’s as useful as a chocolate tea kettle, and feel incomplete and unsatisfying as they come to an abrupt end after only a few hours each. Not only do both modes suffer from the same issues involving gunplay and controls mostly, but the single-player campaign’s shallow stories told across two mini-episodes only add to the disappointment.
If you were hoping that Remedy, the developer of Control and Alan Wake, could live up to its name and find a cure for CrossfireX’s dreadful multiplayer sandbox, I have some bad news. Stay tuned for our review of the multiplayer component, coming soon. Note: This review covers the single-player campaigns of CrossfireX.
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