Hood: Outlaws & Legends

It’s all good in the Hood. Mostly

- Luke Kemp

While this multiplayer heist game has strong whiffs of Assassin’s Creed – creeping around in foliage, assassinating enemies by creeping up behind them, running along in a crouch that looks like it would be terrible for your back – it has an aroma all its own. Successfully pulling off a heist is fun; doing it while other players are out to stop you, even more so.

Playing as part of a team with three other players, you conduct a heist against a map full of AI enemies. There are three stages to this: pick the sheriff’s pocket to nab a key, reach and open a vault containing a chest full of gold, and finally get said loaded chest to an extraction point and winch your way to victory. It can be a lot of fun, but soon becomes rote… until you try the mode that pits you against a rival team.