{"name":"The Swindle","url":"https://www.hodnoceniher.cz/en/game/the-swindle","releaseDate":"2015-07-27","averageRating":70,"reviewsCount":1,"platforms":[],"reviews":[{"server":"HardcoreGamer","url":"https://hardcoregamer.com/2015/08/12/review-the-swindle/161574/","date":"2015-08-12","rating":3.5,"ratingBase":5,"ratingPercent":70,"abstract":"It’s hard to fully recommend a game with inconsistent controls, but The Swindle is awfully close to being excellent.  There are a huge number of enemies with different behaviors and the randomized level generator is more than happy to put multiple kinds together in ways that require different strategies to handle.  The art style not only serves the game well, but also looks sharp when the camera zooms in during the hacking mini-game, revealing detail and linework that gets lost on the normal pulled-back view.  The simple set of skills slowly expands into a large set of tools, with plenty of options to use them in a variety of situations in ways that aren’t instantly obvious.   When a heist goes well, with each situation requiring a combination of sneaky stealth and quick action using strategies developed on the fly, it makes you feel like a master thief who views the most restrictive security measures imagineable as little more than toys to be batted around for your own amusement.  Even an infrequent control failure is maddening when the difficulty is cranked up and every inch of the level is covered in cameras and patrol-bots, though, so until The Swindle sorts out its issues, it’s going to have to be merely decent rather than the excellent it could have been."}],"updatedAt":"2015-08-12"}