All the world’s presidents have been kidnapped—yes, even the worst ones. So humanity turns to the Department of Sneakin’.
Your job: to infiltrate the base of the evil lunatic Amadeus Guildenstern and restore peace and order. Yeah, it’s a ludicrous premise that never eases up. In fact, you’ll soon square off against villains like the vampiric Dr. Acula and Vice President Helicopter, who’s an actual helicopter.
The game is played from a top-down view as you slink into heavily guarded bases, dodge and quietly take down soldiers, fight bosses, and hack into systems.
Games of this nature are often marred by complex controls, but not here. You can do everything with one hand thanks to great design that leans on contextual operations. For instance, if you stand near a computer, you’ll automatically hack into it. And if you remain stationary during a big battle, special weapons like bazookas will auto-fire at enemies.
Never Stop Sneakin’ looks like a classic PlayStation game. That means the characters and environments are made with low polygon counts, and both lack advanced textures and filters. And yet everything still pops, thanks to great lighting effects and a rock-solid frame rate. Plus, you can play in either landscape or portrait mode.
The title is obviously a love letter to the Metal Gear Solid games, which pioneered and then evolved the stealth-action genre on home consoles. But it has its own personality, which is every bit as quirky and unconventional as the classics that inspired it.