In teams of three you scour the world trying to avoid, or slaughter, the hordes of “Nanos” that populate it. You start with a basic loadout of weapons - I began with a low-powered silenced pistol, for example - but then are encouraged to loot around the map and expand your arsenal. “Each round of Synced’s main game mode lasts around 20 minutes.

Then in the span of a week, your images will be studied in a photogrammetry studio in China, with the end result being a fully realised 3D version of your head available to download into the game, ready to go face-to-face with around 1,500 angry cyborgs.

In Synced’s case, all you’ll need to do is send 4 photos of your various facial angles over to developer NeXT Studios. But in the age of FaceApp and the willingness of people to sign their likenesses over to such companies, this sounds like a far less appealing novelty. It’s a feature reminiscent of Tony Hawk’s Underground, where you were only one email and a few hours of processing time away from seeing your blocky face performing McTwists on a New Jersey cul-de-sac. That way you can truly see how you’d hold up against a cyborg uprising from the comfort of your own home. Synced: Off-Planet, the new PvPvE shooter being published by multinational conglomerate Tencent, wants you to send photos of yourself to them in order to get your face in the game.

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