Archangel: Hellfire (2017) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Archangel: Hellfire

Step into the cockpit of a six-story mech and feel its might at your command! You are the tip of the spear in the United States Free Forces’ war against the overwhelming mechanized forces of HUMNX, a…

58 18 July 2017

What Archangel: Hellfire is

Archangel: Hellfire is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Skydance Interactive and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Oculus VR, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Step into the cockpit of a six-story mech and feel its might at your command! You are the tip of the spear in the United States Free Forces’ war against the overwhelming mechanized forces of HUMNX, a tyrannical corporation that rules a post-apocalyptic America. Marshall an arsenal of weapons and fight alongside your squadmates in an incredible, hands-on VR battle across the scarred landscapes of our once beautiful nation.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Archangel: Hellfire holds a critic score of 58 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 13 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Archangel: Hellfire launched on 18 July 2017, within three weeks of Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Diablo III: Eternal Collection. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Diablo III: Eternal Collection.

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