There are a lot of things you can do in eight minutes. Make a brew. Reply to a couple of emails. Pop to the loo. Eight minutes is a surprisingly long time, actually, and I know this because I’ve lost loads of eight-minute segments over the last couple of weeks as I sat in front of my PC, trying to play The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
I feel a little mean kicking off a review by whinging about matchmaking, but when populating a lobby is so important – no, make that essential – to your experience, I feel I’d be doing you a disservice by opening with anything else. Because ultimately, it doesn’t matter how good this game is –and it is very good! – if you can’t bloody play it.
Texas Chain Saw Massacre is, at least, exactly what it says on the tin. An asymmetric horror cast from the same mould as genre leader Dead by Daylight, four victims fight to escape the clutches of Leatherface by lockpicking doors to get out of the basement, steathily navigating the exterior environs by avoiding its traps and antagonists, and escaping to the road. The twist here, however, is that our chainsaw-touting maniac is not alone; yes, it’s still asymmetric, but Leatherface is accompanied by two Family members, which makes it 4v3. And it absolutely works.
