Movement is never restricted, and there’s a lot of joy in finding new and inventive ways to reach new areas. Want to drive a car halfway across the map? Go for it. You can headbutt anything, use your tongue to drag NPCs halfway across the map, grind, backflip and front flip, and generally do what goats do, and then some. There’s no death in Goat Simulator 3, and having that immortality makes you feel free to try whatever you want without fear of failure. There’re also collectables scattered across the map, often requiring inventive ways to find, such as grinding up to a water tower or sliding down a water slide. It’s so stupid, but it knows it is, and I couldn’t help but keep playing.īy completing quests, you’ll get a high score and improve both your Illuminati Rank (obviously), and get given new tools to use when travelling across the world, such as rocket-powered roller-skates and an Adamantium Shield akin to Captain America’s where you can launch it at anyone or anything. Perhaps my favourite was a level that replicated P.T., the horror demo by Guillermo Del Toro and Hideo Kojima, except with goats and a grandma firing projectiles at you in a wheelchair. Removing rubbish bags from a tennis court taking part in an election finding Bigfoot cosplaying at a comic convention and stealing a diamond in a Mission Impossible-type quest are just a handful of them. Instead, you’ll go from area to area completing various quests that are so stupid that I loved them. There’s not a lot of direction in Goat Simulator 3. Coffee Stain pays homage to countless games and movies, and it does so so unapologetically. The opening section is ripped straight from the opening to Skyrim, and there’s even a moment where you launch a nuclear bomb offering up clear nods to the Fallout series, where you even get your own Vault-Tec inspired jumpsuit. You’ll synchronise at Goat Towers like in Assassin’s Creed, grind telephone wires and railings like in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and more. One of the reasons I love playing Goat Simulator 3 is the various nods to gaming franchises and movies strewn across the open world. Skipping an entire game all together, Goat Simulator misses the sequel and throws you straight into the third entry, and boy, it’s one hell of a wild ride. Everything screams at you to put the controller down and find something else with some semblance of structure, but despite there being no clear story or structure, there’s something that keeps the controller firmly in your hands. It shouldn’t work, and it certainly shouldn’t be as replayable as it is. In the world of video games, Goat Simulator 3 is an anomaly.
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