Disaster ! Massive earthquakes have ruined our life.Buildings falling and dust is everywhere.The Earth is not as we know it any more.Get ready for some deep experience different from anything you encountered before.
You play as someone who is looking for his wife and daughter through the ruins of their city.During your search you will encounter several challenges,some will be how to climb a high building and reach the top before your body gets fatigued,breathing becomes difficult and your hands finally give up and let go,and others when you will encounter other human beings,some will need your help,some will stay away from you if you stayed away from them,and some will do anything to protect themselves and gain possession of any survival material you have.
Some can mistake this game for a survival-horror,it's not,it's just survival but it also has some creepy moments.The major thing that makes this game different from any other is the STAMINA gauge.Whether you climb a building,running or just walking in the dust you will always consume stamina.Thanks for that for the first time in video games going from point A to point B is a challenge by itself.it's not the matter of finding the right direction any more,you also need to keep an eye on your stamina,figuring out the next step fast and sometimes even facing a group of hostile thugs.
You gather 4 types of resources you find lying here and there.Some will re-fill your stamina,some will re-fill your health ( or both ) some are equipments and some are ammunition.
Climbing in this game is neither good or bad it's very similar to what you experienced in other games like Uncharted.But combat is a little different,keep in mind that this is a survival game literally,so you will be limited on bullets resources and even retries.When you encounter a group of thugs most of the time especially during the first half of the game you will always have a number of bullets less than the number of people attacking you which is usually 3 or 4,so you will need to think very carefully before you start firing,you need to forget your trigger-happy fantasies while playing this game.When you encounter enemies first thing you need to do is aiming your gun at them.They will instantly hold and raise there hands while telling you to calm and such,by pressing the action button you can order them to back a little which will give you small period of time to come up with a strategy on who to take them out,but keep in mind that there are different kinds of enemies,some will shoot at you no matter what and some will act as if they backing but will surprise you with a sneaking hit,so don't ever lower your gun or give them your back,and even if you are out of bullets you can still aim at them but it will only be few seconds before they figure out it's empty and decide to go for it.
You reach checkpoints very often but saving the game only happens when you complete your task,you have a limited number of retries and if you ran out you will have to restart from last save point which can be about 10-15 minutes,but you can get more retries by helping people or find them in the world.You can help people by giving them specific type of resourced and helping people will reward you with retries and sometimes they will give you some information about something or someone you looking for.
There are however some hiccups of course it's not all perfect,for instance one time i got shot and died by an enemy when i restarted and went back for him i successfully killed him before he fires at me,but when i picked up his gone i found it empty which doesn't make an sense.Also sometimes when you go near survivors you will trigger a conversation when you go away and right back the same conversation will be repeated as it's the first time they see you.But those are not by any means a deal breaker they are just a couple of things that worth mentioning.
The game is very short i personally completed it in 4:45 minutes and i wasn't rushing it at all.The story isn't that appealing and the characters even the protagonist aren't interesting at all.Graphics is dated and gameplay mechanics aren't that bad at all.
Conclusion:
If you like the post-apocalyptic survival style and you are looking for something new and different,challenging but not frustrating or even looking for some deep experience other than the so-called cinematic experience,putting aside the fact that this game have been in development for 4 years and considering it a 15$ 1.8GB downloadable game then you should check this out immediately.Personally i'm looking forward to an improved sequel for this.
Atari has obtained the rights to five lesser-known Ubisoft titles. The deal includes Cold Fear, I Am Alive, Child of Eden, Grow Home, and Grow Up.
Neil writes "October. The busiest time of year for new game releases. And this year is no different with a huge number of titles releasing over the next 30 days or so.
So you can't really blame the team back at Xbox HQ for delivering a bevy of Games With Gold titles that really do fail to enthuse many. In fact, whilst the free Xbox One and Xbox 360 games given away during September were pretty damn decent, October's free titles will quite possibly go down as one of the worst combination of Games With Gold titles this year."
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Where are the fanboys previously calling out PS+ as indie+ etc for many months this year, to complain about Octobers GwG indie line-up? Hypocrites.
PS+ had indies for months and months, then big games for October. Xbox had big games for many months, then indies for October. Strange change of pace, but GWG has been way better value for most of this year.
This. The last few months were bad on PS+. Also with an Xbox One you get 4 Games per month.
Soooo we're on the tenth PS plus / gwg offering Xbox only gave away big games four times so far and Sony has three times how is gwg a way better value this year
Umm last month had Lords of the Fallen and Journey. Before that PS+ had NBA 2K, Yakuza 5, Oreshika and other big games. Don't twist reality.
At Angerfist,
September was great for PS+ and PS+ gets SIX games per month. 6 > 4.
Why not bring it up? We're on a gaming comment section, and my comment is perfectly related and acceptable to the topic in question. Maybe you don't like the hypocrisy being called out but it doesn't mean that others don't want it. Fanboys be calling shit on their opposition for months but when it turns back on themselves they fall silent.
They cant. After years of console wars they think that kind of discussion is normal.
Oh nooooooo! I am a victim of the wrath of SeniorFartCushion! The guy called me an idiot!
Lol.
What you gonna do? Put me on a long list of people on this site you hate?
What's funny is live free games turn to crap in a faster time period then plus watch xbox fanboys ignore that.
Because 1 month containing a great little indie title after a huge number of excellent triple A free titles is not the same as every single month containing 4 turd indies.
The End.
What's up with every article being topped by a comment where one fanboy calls out other fanboys for being fanboys? How about instead we do Snarky comments like "what's up with this article containing words?" Or "what's the deal with everyone breathing air? Copycats." Fantastic job looking all but hurt and depressed though.
Now I'm not allowed to comment on comment sections? Who made you the ringmaster of comment sections? Not liking what others have to say and trying to stop it is against people's right to free speech and calling out others on their BS.
Ironic that your username is the same (although a very slight mis-spelling) as the company who market scams people all over the world into making them think diamonds are precious and a sign of 'everlasting love', to make people 'think' what the company wants them to think so to spend vast amounts on an engagement ring.
Most of us are just gamers who enjoy games, its people like you that think you're fighting some kind of war LOL
get a grip mate and go play some games, you might even have some fun.
*goes on Perjoss's comments* - sees he/she is pro-Xbox
Don't bother trying that 'innocent' go play some games angle to try and discredit my original point.
Keep going, read some more of my comments and you'll see that I'm also pro PS4 and pro PC, trying to label me an MS/Xbox fanboy is funny because if anything in the past I've stated that I dislike MS for numerous reasons. Keep fighting your war though ;)
Replies(1)If this was the PS+ lineup ppl would be rioting. This gwg lineup is absolute garbage, i'm shocked.
Sony had tons of Indies for like 4-5 months before October's much better month. Microsoft was killing it the past 3-4 months with retail games. Now they've taken a step back in October with these Indie games. Some are good, but others are meh. Not a great month for GWG, but I'll still play a couple of these games. I'll definitely play Resident Evil Remasted and Tranferformers: Devastation on PS4 this month.
Because it was many months... Many months. This is so far 1 month. It's not hypocrisy toll the same situation occurs.
But many here are recognizing it sucks. Many of these Xbox fans you mention.
Well, it's decent offering. But it's just lackluster this month.
C'mon man if this was the PS+ lineup ppl would be revolting and calling it utter trash. This lineup is atrociously bad. Mega baseball and a super budget pixel game?
Only because it had been trash for the last year. Don't compare the two.... If The next 2 months are trash too then that's when you can begin to compare.
I noticed that when Xbox has a major release like Gears of War, MS releases weaker games on Games with Gold to get you to play Gears. While Sony gives you better games to stop people from playing Gears. Both Sony and MS do this.
Not exactly. You can download the PS+ games and play later. You don't even have to download them to be exact. You can just put them in queue.
@nix... you can do that on xbox live too...
What Bossbattle said is correct. gaming publications say the same thing...and it makes sense, why would you give away a high profile game in a month when they are releasing a high profile game to the masses?...I'm willing to bet that november will have some stellar games with gold to overshadow the release of the playstation neo (i'm not calling it pro so deal with it.)
My point was, getting an old highly anticipated free game is not going to stop anyone from buying a new game.
I mean who is going to say "oh my God I'm getting Resident Evil free on PS+. Lemme not buy Gears 4."
Why don't ppl take issue with how MS only allows you to download certain games at certain times?
Because Sony knows Gears is a system seller. Gears has sold more than Uncharted. Uncharted 4 most likely put the series ahead of Gears. But that'll change once Gears 4 releases. And keep in mind that Uncharted released on more platforms including PS Vita but Gears managed to sell more.
@boss
And one GT outsells three Forza's which is released yearly, yet Xbox gamers still look at forza as better and say sales don't measure quality.
Funny you guys bring up sales of a franchise only when it fits your argument
Bossbattle
Don't compare Uncharted 4 to Gears 4. Gears 4 won't sell anywhere near what Uncharted sold and it won't get anywhere near the review scores. Gears 4 is not an Epic game, it's made by a new, ragtag developer and it shows. Gears 4 has always looked like a shell of its former glory. Gears 1 and 2 were great, but Gears 4 has mediocre written all over it. The voice acting, the combat, the visuals, it's all subpar. They copied every animation from Gears 3 instead of leveraging current gen hardware and creating new and better animations. The protagonist in Gears 4 is paper thin and even Laura Bailey sounds bad, it sounds like she just mailed it in. The game won't score above an 81 on Metacritic. It's only hope is that mp is fun, but this is not Epic's Gears of War, ppl need to realize that.
@BossBattle "And keep in mind that Uncharted released on more platforms including PS Vita but Gears managed to sell more." More platforms including Vita??? You mean only on Vita? No other platforms, and Gears has had 4 major releases including that horrible turd Judgment. Besides, I thought you xbox fanboys didn't care about sales? Oh that's right only game sales matter now, you guys are ridiculous...
It is interesting. MS is releasing a big game so that would be why.
And Playstation isn't releasing much so they figure maybe they can take out bigger hits and hope it negatively effects gears playtime. Many console gamers have both consoles so it is entirely possible.
BTW just report the people that responded you with fanboy like comments. They're insecure and need help. Don't waste your time replying to their jabs.
No but stop complaining about the monthly courtesy games. Complain about the £40 games with microtransactions.
Damn straight or endless paid dlc to a bare bones base (looking at you destiny there are worse offenders and to be fair I haven't tried the new dlc and have 0 want to.
Rafael Christian from Bit Cultures writes:
"Having great memories from video games is one thing. But when you have nightmares about them, it’s nonsense. That’s why today I am bringing you 5 sounds from video games that are made to stress you out, scare you and raise your heart rate. If you have experienced this, you know what I am talking about."
If we're not counting jump scares like from FNAF....hmm....
Well, yeah, Redeads are pretty damned high up on the list for me.XD
Though I think that Reapers from Mass Effect and the doom skulls from Kid Icarus Uprising are also good candidates for the "Oh sh*t, I hear it coming for me!" list.XD
um...
ups:
"different and new experience for a reasonable price"
downs:
"short"
reasonable price...short....
am i the only one does not expect a large game, for a price like that?
Thank you for your review. Now I'll be waiting for some good deal on this game (half the price at least).