GITSSACFAO will be free-to-play when it properly launches later this year, but before then it's been on Steam Early Access charging at least £3.99/4,99€/$4.99 to get in early.

Just a touch of that and I'll be content. I want to see cool cyborgs do something cool. Those moments he speaks of are why I'm downloading it now (almost done!). 'But most of the time, it's feathering the trigger on an M4 carbine at someone halfway across the map, or rounding a corner and coming face to face with another player and just jamming SMGs into each other's faces and hoping for the best. I loved the 'oh shit' moment of being stacked-up outside a doorway with a group of elite cyborgs, only to see a seeker drone come spider-walking toward us, causing everyone to scatter before it locked onto its target and suicide-bombed it. When everyone is firing-off their powers at once, and you have a giant spider-tank getting blasted by turrets and a guy with a rocket-launcher for an arm, while it paints a targeting reticle on the battlefield before launching a guided missile, and meanwhile you're getting bum-rushed by a trio of invisible commandos, First Assault feels kind of glorious. 'There are moments when First Assault almost gets it right. Look, here's where I turn you over to our resident Premature Evaluator, Rob Zacny, for a bit: Publishers Nexon are holding a load of special events this weekend too.

Until Sunday, May 1st, at 1pm PST/9pm BST, we can all download and play all of GITSSACFAO (amazing acronym) through Steam for free. Look at me, doing my clowny dance in my floppy shoes, boogly boo. You know, the sort of fool who's quite excited to see that Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - First Assault Online has started a free trial weekend on Steam - even though she heard it's an unremarkable multiplayer FPS squandering its setting. Hi, hey there, it's me, your big idiot pal who can't resist anything labelled Ghost in the Shell cos cyberladies and robots and the future okay.

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