VALORANT

Valorant is a free-to-play first-person multiplayer shooter for Microsoft Windows, developed and published by Riot Games. The game was announced in October 2019, under the code name Project A, and released on June 2, 2020. Valorant is a team-based tactical shooter and first-person shooter set in the near future. Players take control of agents, characters from a multitude of countries and cultures worldwide. In the main game mode, players either form an attacking or defending team of five players on each side.  Agents have unique capabilities and use an economic system to buy skills and weapons. The game has a variety of weapons including sidearms, sub-machine guns, shotguns, machine guns, assault rifles, and sniper rifles. Automatic weapons such as the "Spectre" and "Odin" have recoil patterns that the player must control to shoot accurately. The game is played over 25 rounds in standard game mode and the first team to win 13 rounds wins the game. The attacking team has a bomb which they need to plant on a building, called the Spike. If the attacking team protects the Spike successfully and it detonates, then they get a point. If the defending team defuses the Spike successfully, or if the 100-second round timer expires, the defending team gets a point. If all of a team's members are eliminated, the opposing team earns a point. The attacking team turns to defending team after twelve rounds, and vice versa. The game is played over 7 rounds in the Spike Rush mode so the first team to win 4 rounds wins the game. To further reduce the length of the game play, load outs are every round at random and each attacking player carries the spike they can plant at any site. It may not be the prettiest modern FPS around, but its visual simplicity allows for outstanding clarity in any war. Valorant makes me want to keep playing until there's nothing left to master with its teeth sunk in this deep.