It doesn’t really matter why the enemies are there, just that they are. They show up, fire a few bullets to make life difficult, and then drift along their merry way unless taken out first. They don’t like you, you don’t like them, and that’s just fine for everyone. Granted, there’s way more of them than there will ever be of you, but that’s what power-ups are for. An arena shooter doesn’t need any reason beyond “we got guns!”, and while Rising Heat will have a plot (or at least a scenario) the demo that dropped today doesn’t hint at it. There’s a whole lot of enemies to blow through and that’s more than enough.

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It doesn’t really matter why the enemies are there, just that they are. They show up, fire a few bullets to make life difficult, and then drift along their merry way unless taken out first. They don’t like you, you don’t like them, and that’s just fine for everyone. Granted, there’s way more of them than there will ever be of you, but that’s what power-ups are for. An arena shooter doesn’t need any reason beyond “we got guns!”, and while Rising Heat will have a plot (or at least a scenario) the demo that dropped today doesn’t hint at it. There’s a whole lot of enemies to blow through and that’s more than enough.