Development teams Airtight Games and GRIN are both working on titles for Capcom with unique hooks for three dimensional gaming. While both trade in that most common of play mechanics, shooting things, they’re both predominantly focused on providing the player with a unique way to move about their respective worlds. GRIN’s revitalization of the Bionic Commando franchise is built around a grappling hook and Airtight’s Dark Void is built around having a jetpack. Superficially it might seem that these sorts of tools are little more than a gimmick, shallow expansions on the sort of gravity play that has been essential to gaming since the first time Pitfall Harry jumped on a vine. But what they really offer is new solutions to the problem that’s plagued 3D games since Mario 64: precision control on the Z-axis.
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