Ready or Not

Ready or Not is a first-person shooter that puts you in charge of an elite SWAT unit fighting chaos in a crime-riddled urban sprawl. The game is very realistic and will get your heart racing. VOID Interactive made this exciting game that puts players in high-stakes operations where they have to make moral choices under fire and work together with others. Every raid puts your command skills to the test in tough situations based on real-life police work, like breaking into fortified hideouts or defusing bomb threats. Ready or Not is a great tactical shooter for people who love them. You can play it on a high-end desktop PC or on Android devices through emulation powerhouses like Winlator. The game’s immersive tension and strategic depth set it apart from other tactical shooters.

The Captivating Storyline

Ready or Not takes place in the made-up city of Los Sueños, which used to be a thriving city but is now falling apart because of crime, corruption, and extremism. You are Commander David “Judge” Beaumont, the tough leader of the Los Sueños Police Department SWAT team. Your job is to restore order in the face of growing threats. The story takes place over a campaign of more than 20 missions that are all connected. Each mission shows a different part of the city’s decline, from abandoned drug dens taken over by cartels to luxurious penthouses that hide human trafficking rings.

As Beaumont, you face a group of bad guys: suicidal cultists hiding in schools, eco-terrorists planning mass destruction, and armed extremists who are inspired by nightclub shootings. Briefings from dispatchers and intel logs give suspects rich backstories that make them seem more human and show how the lines between criminal and victim are often blurry. As you move forward, you find out about darker conspiracies, like corrupt officials and secret organizations that are making things worse. Officer mental health logs and post-mission debriefs are examples of side elements that add emotional weight and turn routine raids into stories of sacrifice and justice. DLCs like Home Invasion and Dark Waters add to the story with naval operations and rural strongholds, leading to epic battles that make you question the cost of winning. This new way of telling stories, based on your choices and adherence to RoE, tells a gritty story of heroism in a world on the edge.

Engaging Gameplay Mechanics

The main part of the game is planning and carrying out actions in a very realistic tactical setting. Before each mission, use a tactical tablet to look over floor plans, goals (such as arresting suspects, rescuing hostages, and disarming bombs), and profiles of the suspects. Put together your five-officer team, each with a different set of skills like breaching or sniping, and then send them out by helicopter or armored vehicle. Use rams, charges, or optics to break down doors, and use CS gas, flashbangs, or beanbag rounds to keep people from getting hurt.

Rules of Engagement (RoE) are very important. Suspects must be given chances to give up unless they are about to hurt someone. If you break the rules, your score goes down and you get penalties. Give your AI teammates voice-like commands like “stack up,” “cover left,” and “advance.” Ballistics can show how bullets go through things, bounce off of things, and fall off of things. Kevlar is strong, but plates are even stronger. You can change more than 60 things, such as optics, suppressors, less-lethal weapons (like tasers and 40mm sponges), and lethal weapons (like MP5s, MK17s, and shotguns). Mental health mechanics make stressed officers switch roles, which adds strategy.

There are a lot of modes: Commander (story campaign), Quick Play (random ops), Ironman (permadeath), and Training Range. Co-op can have up to five players, and multiplayer has SWAT fighting human suspects in unbalanced battles. Suspects act in ways that are aggressive, evasive, or suicidal, and they change their behavior when they hear noise, see light, or smell gas. After a mission, arrests are worth more points than kills. Mods and leaderboards make the game more fun to play again. Controls feel natural whether you’re using a keyboard and mouse or a controller, and CQB is heart-pounding because one wrong lean can mean death. Endless depth means that it takes dozens of raids to master it.

System Requirements

Ready or Not’s detailed environments and AI need powerful hardware.

CategoryMinimumRecommended
Desktop GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 960 2GB / Radeon R7 370 2GBNVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB or better
Desktop ProcessorIntel i5-4430 / AMD FX-6300Intel i5-7600K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Android Processor (Winlator)Snapdragon 870 / Dimensity 8100 (30 FPS stable)Snapdragon 8 Gen 3+ / Dimensity 9300 (60 FPS stable)

Review Ready or Not

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Game Details

  • Publisher Void Interactive
  • Developer Void Interactive
  • Release Date 2021-12-17
  • System OS Windows 10 / Windows 11 (64-bit)
  • API DirectX 12
  • Resolution 1920x1080
  • File Size 50 GB
  • Pre-installed Yes
  • Genre/Tags
    Tactical Shooter Action

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