Each of them have guns used by their respective armies such as the M16, AK-47 or G36. There are three factions in this game based off real life nations: the Greencoats (the United States), the Browncoats (Russia) and the Greycoats (Germany). Unlike traditional MOBAs though, in Running with Rifles your ability to aim a gun comes into play meaning that it requires a bit of hand-to-eye co-ordination.Īuthentic weapons. Also the AI themselves can have 'hero' characters too, so it's a bit different in that regard). However, Running with Rifles does share some similarities with MOBAs, such as mobs of AI controlled soldiers fighting each other in a seemingly endless war and you're (potentially) one of the super powerful heroes (I say 'potentially' because you just start off as one of the grunts in this game and work your way up. Kind of like a MOBA but notI'm not a big fan of MOBAs, maybe because there's too much expectation that you'll follow a certain build and because it's pretty competitive (which means you need to invest time into a game in order to be any good – not a good game when you don't have much time on your hands or too many other games to play). We've played the game on and off over the past few months and it seems like the game still has a 'Very Positive' rating on Steam and a score of 78 on Metacritic.

This review is going to read a lot like the First Impressions article I’ve posted before, for two reasons: (a) My opinion hasn’t really been changed that much since I wrote it and (b) I’ve enacted a new policy where my future reviews are going to be a similar format to my First Impressions articles.Īs mentioned before, we originally got this game as part of a 4-pack so that the Choicest Games contributors would have a co-op game we could play together.

Pretty sure the trenches are just meant for infantry hey.

Games like running with rifles