This addition of a 'delete enemy' button to survival horror is disorientating at first, but The Callisto Protocol gradually compensates for it. Or, you can pick up nearby explosives and toss them at your foes, which is less fun, but more sensible because picking up objects uses less energy than levitating mutants. Boy, does this moon colony have an alarming amount of wall-mounted spikes. In a game full of spongey baddies, this weapon lets you pick most of them up and toss them off platforms and into chasms, or more frequently, into wall-mounted spikes. The GRP is The Callisto Protocol's answer to Control's levitate, or Half-Life 2's gravity gun, and it's great fun. Lee has a glowing green bar on the back of his head that indicates his health, and a blue one that indicates whether his 'GRP' has overheated. When it comes to the actual bludgeoning though, it's satisfyingly vicious, especially when broken up with point-blank shotgun rounds. Perhaps I'm just bad at it, but in the heat of the moment-and especially when coping with more than one enemy-I often resorted to panic-shooting. The Callisto Protocol takes a rhythmic approach to hand-to-hand combat, but playing with a controller, over the course of 15 hours I never felt like I could effectively nail the timing of that ostensibly simple evasion system.

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