Eye Scream: Ivan allows Jane Doe to live, but he cuts out her eyes first.Most of the basic mooks are men, though one class of Elite Mooks is entirely female. In fact the gender ratio of the group's leadership is an even 50/50 split. Equal-Opportunity Evil: SOD is led by a Russian general of Japanese descent who appears culturally Japanese-American, and its officers include a Latino-American cowboy, an African man who admires Gurkha culture and has a British accent, a woman who looks like Amy Winehouse and adopts Japanese cultural affects, and two Eastern European blonde women.Doesn't Like Guns: Grundlha Saha yells at Ivan for using guns like a common soldier.Ivan uses it at the ending to shoot Ludmila in the chest after she shoots C4. Chekhov's Gun: Right before Bob and Ivan part ways, the former gives the latter a Colt Peacemaker, its owner saying it was a good luck charm but that the latter needs it more now.special forces Mauve Shirt soldiers that help Ivan out throughout the game. Bald of Authority: Bob, the leader of the U.S.She then quotes Hitler to justify herself. Ivan calls her out on sacrificing her troops. Bad Boss: Ludmila activates a poison gas trap near the end to kill Ivan and the Navy SEAL team with him, but also kills off the rest of her team.Artifact Title: Calling the game "Devil's Third" made much more sense when there were supposed to be three different playable characters.Applied Phlebotinum: One mission centers around rescuing a Japanese scientist being held by SOD who has developed a new metal called "Rhenium X." Starting with this mission onward, enemy soldiers with shields have said shields made out of Rhenium X, and the jeep you drive after this mission is also made out of this metal.Absurdly Sharp Blade: Ivan's sword is capable of cutting foes clean through, regardless of how much muscle or bone structure is in the way.only to have its own servers shut down a few months later.ĭevil's Third contains examples of the following tropes: However, the multiplayer mode received a spiritual successor in the form of the free-to-play game RockShot ( developed by the same studio ), released in June 2018.
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The game's online multiplayer mode was released on PC in Japan as the standalone Devil's Third Online in June 2016, with new features such as voice chat, but this was also shut down in March 2017. Shortly after the game's release, it was announced that the multiplayer servers would be shut down in all regions at the end of 2016, due to poor sales. As a side note, even the Japan retail release was exclusive to Amazon.
note Retail copies were exclusive to GameStop, with the chain only receiving 420 copies for the entire United States. However, backlash eventually pushed them to publish the title, albeit in limited quantities. This wasn't aided by Nintendo of America's reluctance to publish the game in that region due to its (lack of) quality, with the title being removed from the American eShop's "Coming Soon" section and its absence at E3 2015. Reception was particularly negative in the West, with reviews noting several issues such as mediocre graphics, inconsistent framerate, poor controls, and manipulative use of microtransactions in online play. įollowing a long troubled production that took the title from an Xbox 360 exclusive, to a multiplatform game, and finally to a Nintendo exclusive, the game received mixed reception from critics and players alike upon its release. The game includes both a single player campaign and a multiplayer mode, complete with a custom map editor.Ĭheck out the E3 2014 trailer here and the launch trailer here. Ivan is able to use firearms, bladed weapons, and his fists to dispatch enemies in a seamless frenzy of violence. Devil's Third is a unique experience among action games as it is a Third-Person Shooter, a Beat 'em Up, and a Hack and Slash game all in the same package.
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