When a first-person shooter wants to stand out, it throws a selection of enemies at you that’ll challenge your skills and push you to the breaking limit. In Fashion Police Squad, you don’t have to worry about deadly Marauders summoning spectral wolves while dodging every attack, cyborg Nazis, or even a horde of zombies rushing to your location.
No, there’s something far worse out there: People with a terrible sense of fashion. I’m talking drab accountants wielding drab suits, rave-culture remnants dressed in day-glo pants, and lawyers who never bothered to get a proper fitting for their Sunday best. In Fashion Police, it’s up to you to enforce some Loewe and order with an arsenal of high-powered and highly fashionable weapons.
A retro-styled shooter that goes in guns blazing with an arsenal of weapons that can fix calamitous clothing, Fashion Police Squad runs like Doom on a catwalk of Coco Chanel chaos. It certainly hits the right notes for a humorous Doom-like, throwing you into corridors of unfashionable crime as you use a selection of weapons to restore some dignity to the world around you. For every walking fashion disaster, there’s a solution in the form of a 2-Dye-4 Elite that can restore color to boring outfits, or the Tailormade sewing machine gun that can help tighten up unnecessarily loose clothing.
That rock-paper-scissors format guides you in every encounter, as you juggle your selection of weapons to help take down the scruffy ruffian in your crosshairs. Fashion Police Squad has a great flow to it, light and breezy fun as you use momentum to your advantage and unleash some Gucci gunplay in a series of fascinating levels and challenging enemy combinations. Annoyingly, though, those stages require a tremendous amount of backtracking that derails the more impressive run from Point Armani to Point Balmain, turning an otherwise fun gauntlet into an experience with a few loose stitches to watch out for.
But beyond that gripe about each level’s stuttering design, Fashion Police Squad is a fun diversion that’s full of terrific characters, a surprisingly solid story, and light-hearted Hugo Boss fights.
Fashion Police Squad is out now for PC.
| Fashion Police Squad review | |
What happens when you merge Doom with haute couture? You get Fashion Police Squad, a dapper and light-hearted shooter. While the level design could use some more tweaking, this Doomlander experience certainly knows how to strike a pose on the catwalk. |
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| Fashion Police Squad was reviewed on PC | |