The string-pulling Commander is unpredictable, so smart teams will treat their earned Capacitors as flexible “Panic buttons” that can be tailored to a variety of situations. These are powerful boosts that give teams a way to fight back when the AI Commander ratchets up the flow of enemy forces for a more intense challenge. Whoever grabs a Capacitor and plugs it into a machine near the base gets to choose from a set of team-wide bonuses, including everything from jetpacks or miniguns for everyone to double damage for two minutes, a mortar strike, or base camp turrets (turrets pop up around the map to automatically defend each beacon location). These pickups appear near the team’s home base, one for every 250 points earned toward the match total. Intercept features a progression system built around completing challenges (earn X number of points, score 10 head shots with a certain weapon, stuff like that), but we only saw a single loadout for each class during our demo.įighting for an edge. In addition to the gear your four soldiers carry into battle, Intercept offers opportunities for mid-match game-changers in the form of Capacitors. The Tactician carried only a single auto-pistol into battle, but he provided important point defense support with three deployable turrets and a deployable shield. In the demo we played, Assault’s assault rifle/automatic shotgun (equipped with incendiary rounds) combo brought a lot of medium-to-short-range firepower to bear, but the Medic and Marksman were needed for healing and ammo re-ups. Each soldier class performs vital functions that interconnect with one another, resulting in an asymmetrical balance that necessitates communication and cooperation. Only one player can fill a class role in a given match, and AI-controlled squaddies take over when the player count is less than four. Keep it together. There are four soldier classes to field in each Intercept match: Assault, Marksman, Medic, and Tactician.
Victory is a matter of reaching a host-determined point total, through both combat and keeping a hold on beacons.
In functional terms, each match amounts to a mission, with the player-controlled VSA squaddies working together to maintain control of three beacons - labeled A, B, and C - as Helghast forces, managed by an AI “Commander” (not unlike Left 4 Dead‘s Director) pour in from all sides. The intel troops are operating behind enemy lines on a mission to steal vital information from the Helghast and then transmit it back using a series of hacked comm beacons. The premise sees four players taking control of the same Vektan Security Agency (VSA) squad encountered in the main game. Story/ConceptĪnother side of the war. Story serves primarily as a framing device for Intercept, which finds its closest comparison with the sort of wave-based survival modes that pop up in modern shooters. We spent s good chunk of time playing Intercept at a recent Sony event, and the overall impression is positive.
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