Livelock
Livelock is a twin-stick shooter video game with both solo and cooperative multiplayer gameplay, It was developed by Montreal-based Tuque Games and published by Perfect World Entertainment on August 30, 2016. Described as similar to the Diablo series, but with guns and in a post-apocalyptic setting.
Livelock
- Date
- 2016
- Language
- English · French
- Genre
- shoot 'em up · post-apocalyptic video game
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Livelock is a twin-stick shooter video game with both solo and cooperative multiplayer gameplay, It was developed by Montreal-based Tuque Games and published by Perfect World Entertainment on August 30, 2016. Described as similar to the Diablo series, but with guns and in a post-apocalyptic setting.
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• Title — Livelock • Developer — Tuque Games • Publisher — Perfect World Entertainment • Composer — Vibe Avenue • Released — August 30, 2016 • Genre — Multidirectional shooter • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer • Platforms — Windows PlayStation 4 Xbox One
Development and release
Development and release
The game was first announced in January 2016. It is the first game by Perfect World Entertainment that is not a free-to-play title. The game became part of the Xbox Games With Gold program in September 2018.
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The game received "mixed or average reviews" from 14 PC and PlayStation 4 (PS4) industry critics, and "generally favorable reviews" from 7 Xbox One industry critics, and holding aggregated Metacritic scores of 73/100 69/100 and 77/100, for its PC, PS4, and Xbox One versions respectively.
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- 1.Mahardy, Mike. Frantic Co-Op Shooting Meets Diablo in New Game Livelock. GameSpot. February 23, 2016.
- 2.Saed, Sherif. Co-op isometric action-RPG Livelock gets release date on PC, PS4, Xbox One. VG247. June 23, 2016.
- 3.Bohn, Jason. Perfect World Announce First Non-Free-to-Play Game 'Livelock'. Hardcore Gamer. January 26, 2016.
- 4.Tack, Daniel. Livelock: Twin-Stick Hero Shooting Takes Off. Game Informer. June 15, 2016.
- 5.Kain, Erik. Here Are All The Free 'Xbox Games With Gold' Coming In September (2018). Forbes.
- 6.Metacritic. Livelock for PC Reviews. 2016-08-30.
- 7.Metacritic. Livelock for PlayStation 4 Reviews. 2016-08-30.
- 8.Metacritic. Livelock for Xbox One Reviews.
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