
This allows you to lock on to a weak spot with your firearm and take down the enemy in just a few shots instead of emptying a full gun. Your “Strategic Targeting System” opens up a brief window to perform a “skill shot”. Part of the combat mechanics includes cutting off the limbs of your foes and decapitating them. Thus, to save up on ammo, you’ll need to get close to your enemies, dodge their attacks, and then eliminate them before they can kill you.

The final stages of the gameplay feature a number of difficult miniboss battles that come up quickly one after the other and lead to a grueling final boss fight.īullets are scarce at the beginning of the game. This makes players think about sneaking up on enemies instead of shooting them, which is a nice change from the game’s fast pace. In the latter half of the game, there is a level where Jacob is trapped in a series of tunnels filled with biophages that are blind but sensitive to noise. Throughout the game, the player can collect audio logs, which can be listened to for gaining more background information on the game’s characters and setting. The player can restore the character’s health with injection-style pickups. He must learn to use a mix of close- and long-range combat, as well as a special gravity weapon that was once used by Black Iron guards to keep prisoners in line.Ī holographic HUD displays the gameplay’s most essential data. A device implanted in the base of Jacob’s skull called a “Core Device” gives information about his health status. The player controls Jacob Lee from a third-person perspective. To survive the horrors of Jupiter’s moon, Jacob has to traverse dangerous terrain, unlock new weapons, gear, and skills, and use his own special shooting and close-range combat style against the ever-changing creatures while revealing some disturbing secrets.

Soon after his arrival, inmates start transforming into monsters, and prison riots break out.

The cruel hand of fate has cast Jacob Lee into Black Iron Prison on Jupiter’s moon Callisto. The Callisto Protocol is a science fiction survival video game that takes players 300 years into the future and immerses them in a narrative-driven horror.
