Ghostrunner’s newest trailer debuted at the Future Games Show, but Polygon had a chance for some hands-on time with the impressive first-person platformer.
Ghostrunner is a game about a cybernetic ninja who can run on walls, slow time, dodge bullets in midair, and kill enemies in one swing of his sword. And it actually lives up to that amazing premise, at least in its best moments.
Ghostrunner had a public demo last month, which let players parkour and slice their way through a short level of the game. The game also had a new trailer that debuted during the Future Games Show, which showed off some of the fast-paced action. But Polygon had the chance to play a bit more of Ghostrunner, and get a glimpse of the cyberpunk ninja action from a bit later in the game.
Ghostrunner is a first-person action game that puts you in control of a titular Ghostrunner, a samurai-like peacekeeper, in a bleak, dystopian mega-city called Dharma Tower. The tower is a massive structure that houses everything a city would need to survive, with the poorest people and manufacturing units on the bottom and the richest residents living high above everything else. When the Ghostrunner wakes up at the bottom with no memory, a mysterious AI tells him he must climb the tower to take out the evil Keymaster who runs the city. It’s not exactly the most original story, but it gets the job done and sets the mood.
To make his climb to the top easier, the Ghostrunner has all the standard moves of a parkour expert, like wall running, mantling, sliding, incredible jumps, and a grappling hook.
