Archangel (2017), the single-player mech shooter from Skydance Interactive, is hosting a free-access weekend starting today, going until Monday at 3:00 AM ET (local time here).
Letting you step into the cockpit of a six-story mech as the main force behind the United States Free Forces’ war against the tyrannical corporation HUMNX, you command an arsenal of weapons to shoot down the enemy and protect a post-apocalyptic America.
Playing as either Gabriel or Gabby Walker, you bond with an experimental mech AI, M1KL, and are tasked with delivering it to the secret resistance facility Deep Mountain.
Gameplay is ‘on-rails’, meaning you don’t really get to locomote around the map, instead traveling through cinematic interludes filled with arcade-style shooting.
While the $30 price tag might have been too rich for your blood at launch back in summer, this presents a good opportunity to jump in and see if it’s really for you or now without. It appears the Steam version is not offering a similar free-access weekend, although Vive users can user Revive to shoe into the game over the next few days too. The PSVR version doesn’t seem to be doing it either, so it looks like only Rift and Vive will be able to take part.
You can find the Rift version here.