NEED TO KNOW
WHAT IS IT? An open world space game where you pilot a sentient ship
EXPECT TO PAY £35
DEVELOPER Deep Silver Fishlabs
PUBLISHER Deep Silver
REVIEWED ON Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB RAM, GeForce RTX 2060
MULTIPLAYER No
LINK chorusthegame.com
Having six degrees of freedom is not as freeing as it might appear. Take spaceship combat, the exciting process of spewing lasers at enemies. For every successfully landed shot, there’s a whole lot of endlessly swerving to keep those fighter ships in view. It can be exhausting; sometimes I dread the arrival of a fleet, rather than being excited for the dogfight. Enter Chorus, a game that makes spaceship combat fast and thrilling.
Rather than constantly tilting your ship to follow the enemy, here you have a touch of physics-defying magic that lets you ‘drift’ like you’re in a sports car. Pretty soon you’re using your Jedi-esque powers to disrupt shields and batter the enemy with Void-powered attacks. With its physics and suite of useful abilities, Chorus is the most pumped I’ve felt playing a dogfighting game.
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