Blacklight: Retribution isn't your average online shooter. There are lots of people out there who would cringe at the thought of playing a free-to-play online shooter. I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm one of them too. The flood of substandard, badly named and outdated-looking F2P shooting games over the last few years haven't exactly done a good job of putting them in a good light. More often than not, it's always the same basic formula that Counterstrike created over 10 years ago, plus a few aesthetic tweaks here and there (sometimes with top-heavy and scantily clad female characters) and a cash shop to give wealthy players a way to pay-to-win.