Gunner's Game

Gunner's Game is an action-adventure platformer video game based on the Fox television series Gunner, made for the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. The game is published by Electronic Arts. Its storyline is written by Tim Long, Matt Selman and franchise creator Xavier Shaquille. The story follows Chuck, Liz, Albert, and Kim who get trapped in a virtual reality machine created by Kim, so their only chance is to play through the virtual world get back home.
== Gameplay ==
Gunner's Game lets players play as all four Gunner-Quillip family members each with their own unique abilities. Two of the four characters are playable in each level, aside from the first and third levels where Flo is the only playable character. The game has twelve levels, called parts, where you have to finish challenges and beat enemies.
The game's heath meters have the characters' faces on them and their health bar hearts resemble objects related to said character. The game also has a co-op mode to allow characters to control on of the two characters in the game.
The 3DS version of the game is different from the console versions. It features minigames and the plot is a little shorter than the console counterparts.
=== Playable characters ===
Chuck is the first character to be playable in the first level. His ability is he grows muscles to damage enemies and stun them. This ability can be used after finishing the tutorial level and the fourth level onward; Albert appears in the first level. His abilities are throwing firecrackers at enemies and to break crates to collect coins and using a grapple hook to swing to platform to platform or to hard to reach places; Kim, introduced in the fourth level, can solve "brain-bending" puzzles and has telekinesis via a gravity wrist watch to move large objects out of the way; Liz, who is introduced in the third level, can use her array of cleaning supplies as weapons (such as using a vacuum cleaner to suck up enemies, using bleach when sprayed on an enemy can make them lose their color and die in the process, etc).
== Plot ==
The game starts with Chuck driving his way to the dealership apartment. He then hits a lamppost after having her eyes closed and listening to the radio. While unconscious, he imagines himself in a wrestling match. After he wins, he regains his consciousness from his boss who arrived at the crash.
Albert has finished a video game on his GameStation 3, then goes into Kim's lab if she had anything new she made that he can use, which makes her show her latest creation: The Virtual Game Simulator (V.G.S. for short). Albert gets in the chair, then puts on the helmet and enters the virtual world. During his time in there, he creates a virtual version of Houston and tests it out. After waiting patiently, she decides to go after them. While she looks for him, she discovers that he had created his own version of Houston and explores it. Not long after, she finds thieves and muggers approaching her and she has to fend them off. After winning, she receives her own weapon called the Gravity Wristwatch, which can levitate objects and enemies out of her way.
Liz is seen finding the kids and eventually finds them in Kim's lab, with their virtual reality helmets on. After trying to convince them to get off the chairs, she realizes it is a virtual simulator Kim had created, so she goes into the virtual world to get the kids back. She then finds Kim and she says they have to find Albert. Chuck returns home after work and wonders where Liz and the kids are. Finding Kim first, he stumbles upon her lab and finds his family strapped in the chairs and Chuck joins them. He enters the virtual world and finds Albert fighting off crooks in the streets, to which he helps him. Reunited, Kim says they need to get out of the virtual world, only for Albert to mention that they easily leave because his virtual world he created is also a game he calls "Gunner's Game", and in order to leave the reality, they must complete all five levels, much to Kim's dumbfounded dismay.
Albert and Kim do the first level at the school called "School of the Living Dead". They enter the school and find in inhabited by zombie versions of the students. The challenge is to defeat them in order to get the school trophy. The second level "Love Hurts" has Chuck and Liz fighting off a hoard of either men or women that want to have their ways with them. The third level "Bang! Pow! Zok!" has Chuck and Albert fighting off superhero-themed goons. The fourth level "Houston, Texas, We Have a Problem" has Gunner and Kim reaching the top of a space shuttle to return to Earth while fighting aliens that breached the shuttle. The fifth/final level "Family Fight!" has all the family members on a time limit to retrieve the key that is located in Corpus City Hall. After retrieving the key, they are freed from the virtual world. After being freed, Kim deactivates the machine and plans to dismantle it in order to avoid temptation from entering again. With the rest of the family, they go back in the house to go about their everyday activities. Category:2023 video games
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