*Possible Spoilers – You have been warned*
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What if I were to tell you that one of the most original games released this year was set in a ruined city shortly after an apocalyptic event? You may think that after Fallout 3, Rage, Dead Island, Left 4 Dead, Gears of War and a host of other titles, not including TV shows like The Walking Dead, that I was talking utter codswallop. However, you would be wrong. Ubisoft Shanghai’s Downloadable title I Am Alive is an interesting experiment in the post-apocalypse/survival horror genre. It’s not perfect, but you haven’t played anything like it, and not a goddamn zombie in sight.
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AKA: Memorable Moments in Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game!
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Rockstar Games’ highly anticipated Max Payne 3 is entering full hype swing now in the run up to its May release. We must say, it’s difficult not to get caught up in the hype when all videos suggest that it may well be the most stylish, gritty and gorgeous-looking way to shoot people in the face in four score and ‘twain.
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Ok, so that title may have been a bit misleading, and sensationalist and terrible.
But it’s not entirely untrue.
Ok, so it is.
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There’s nothing like sitting down to a session of some online multiplayer with some grown ups (adults/people over the age of 18 who have the right to vote etc) and having one of said mature persons scream down your Turtle Beach’s that you’re a “thin dick smooth ball bug fucker”.
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Video game hype is nothing new. At the best of times, a game manages to live up to the touting it receives in its marketing, sometimes even surpassing the public’s expectation. At worst, it takes all of those hopes you had for a great game and give you the exact opposite. Sometimes it can be so bad that you give serious consideration to trying a civil suit against the developers for wrongful advertising. But that won’t do any good, because after these atrocities are released their developers either try to ignore it and move on, or they go into liquidation.
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Our Press Start team ran out like the little fanboys we are last Friday and picked up Mass Effect 3. If gaming is your hobby too, you’ll know that disappointment is par for the course with AAA titles, and we barely have time to clean the shit out from our teeth week to week. Mass Effect is different, with c. 80 hours between three of our correspondents combined, I can honestly report that it is everything a fan of the series deserves, and an unprecedented accomplishment in gaming. We could just do a boring old review, but feck that. This game deserves your attention, period.
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We’re a little late on this one. It’s probably my fault as it was my holiday last week. For those of you who missed it, Assassin’s Creed 3 was revealed last week and thank mother of fucking mercy it doesn’t feature a modern day setting with Desmond “about as appealing as an underboiled spud” Miles.
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If you aren’t excited about Irrational Games’ follow up to 2007′s steampunk Epic, Bioshock, then you bloody should be. After 2K outsourced for the disappointing and entirely irrelevant expansion pack sequel Bioshock 2, we cant wait to see what original creator Ken Levine and his team have in store for us.
