Each of the three hunters has their own basic firearm, but enemies drop better weapons upon death for you to pick up. You may be able to survive more than one shot, but if you're not quick on your feet, you'll be taken out fast. It's a side-scrolling shooter that throws dozens of enemies at you at a time. You don't spend a ton of time getting to know them, but the big baddies of each tribe are well designed and different from one another.Īt a glance, Huntdown is immediately reminiscent of the classic Contra franchise. Each of the four gangs also have their own special attributes. The three contract killers all have their own unique traits, and their rapport with the agency that hired them is defined well enough. That's really all the plot development the title necessitates, though, thanks to some solid characterization. The set-up is little more than being told which specific gang you'll be going after for a portion of the game. Like the action movies it draws inspiration from, there's not a ton of narrative to be found in Huntdown. The three hunters for the job, Anna Conda, John Sawyer and Mow Man, may only be in it for the cash, but they're the best this city is going to get. With the police almost as corrupt as the criminals, the job of cleaning up the city falls onto the capable shoulders of bounty hunters. Gangs and killers own the streets, and the civilians caught in between can do little to alleviate the problems. The rest of the top order had a day to forget though, and Blackwood acknowledged things would need to change in Wellington.In some undetermined time in the future, the world has been driven into post-apocalyptic mayhem. We mixed aggression and then tried to get as good a shot selection as possible." I was pretty proud of myself as well, the way I went about things. It was good to see him come out and bat the way he did. "I hit two balls in the air and then I thought, 'No, I'm going to stay here with him,' because he takes pride in his batting as well. He was like: "I'm going to stay here with you.' "When Alzarri came to the crease I just told him to play his natural game and I would try to bat as long as possible. It was rollicking good fun and, as Blackwood said, the result of neither wanting to let the other one down. While nobody would argue that it was anything but New Zealand's day, Blackwood and Alzarri Joseph lit up the evening with an unbroken 107-run partnership. They took an attacking approach, had a little bit of luck but played positive cricket." We weren't quite at our best in the last hour but you've got to give credit to. "Any time you have a side follow on you know you've played pretty well at some stage. "We know when we're able to swing it we're a lot more dangerous," he said.įor a long time it appeared this would be a three-day test but Southee said there was no disappointment in not finishing the job quickly. The right-armer who now has 289 test wickets credited an older ball that kept swinging for his first innings success. "He was pretty much the slowest of the bowlers but he was swinging the ball a lot earlier." "Tim Southee," was Jermaine Blackwood's blunt assessment of who was the pick of the New Zealand bowlers. Why would he and he's only getting better. Southee is fit, can bowl for long spells and has no intention of giving any form of cricket away as he approaches 32. It's not you don't start to hunt down 300 wickets unless you're doing something pretty special. Southee was better than good but in many ways it felt bog standard. It doesn't tell you that he took the first two wickets to fall and set in train the capitulation that was to follow. It doesn't tell you that when the West Indies took guard this morning they were 49-0 and the prospect of a long grind was in store. His 4-35 in the first innings reads well, but it hides a lot too. There are times when Tim Southee's excellence is almost taken for granted. The Black Caps bowlers produced a superb effort to dominate day three of the first test against the West Indies at Seddon Park – but one member of the pace quartet doesn't get enough credit, writes Dylan Cleaver. Andrew Alderson and Dylan Cleaver discuss Kane Williamson’s 251 run innings on the second day of the New Zealand-West Indies opening test in Hamilton.
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