‘Deathloop’ game review: Addictive action, on repeat

The roguelike genre goes mainstream in Arkane Studios’ latest PlayStation 5 exclusive, Deathloop which blends raw shooter action with a 1960s James Bond-like world, on loop

The 1993 Bill Murray-starrer Groundhog Day became the unofficial term for the much-loved time loop narrative paradigm. The same temporal phenomenon is at the core of Arkane’s latest first-person shooter.

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Colt Vahn is having a terrible day, waking up with a monumental hangover of sorts on a mysterious island’s beach where the laws of time and death don't matter. To make matters worse, he is constantly being hunted by Julianna ‘Jules’ Blake, a wise-cracking, relentless force, determined to defeat Colt. Playing as Colt, your driving force is to break the loop and end this cycle of killing by vanquishing all eight Visionaries (the game’s main antagonists in the form of scientists, artists and party animals who all want to kill Colt) before midnight.