DayZ – Worth The Hype?
With the recent explosion in popularity of the mod DayZ for Arma 2: Combined Ops, Seb and I decided to dive in and see what all the fuss was about. Note that I have played approximately 15 minutes in total of Arma 2 before installing and playing this mod. So without further ado, to our deaths!
Lone Survivor review – In a post apocalyptic world, only you can be confusing
As I said in this weeks Video Mondaily, today's review is on Jasper Byrne's indie survival horror: Lone Survivor. Now it's worth mentioning from the word go that this was indeed a solo project from one single man, so that ought to be taken into consideration when you have a look at the video from Monday and any other bits and pieces of information that you pick up about the game. I say this but honestly, I don't need to make any excuses for Lone Survivor because it is actually absolutely fantastic!
The game focuses on your character, an unnamed and unknown survivor of some apocalyptic disaster which has turned most of the population into weird shambling horrors. One hesitates to call them zombies because it's never mentioned that they are dead, rather the creatures are the victims of some virus which ravaged the population of the world/city/apartment complex. Generally I thought of the creatures as "mutants" so that's what I will call them for the duration of this review (this name was helped along by the appearance of some other unusual enemies, but I digress). The game's premise is rather simple your character ("you"?) have been holed up in your flat for weeks now and have decided that it is time to escape your apartment complex and escape the city itself - perhaps the idea is to search for survivors or to head to Pacific Playland (WOO! TWINKIES!), whatever survivors do.
Video Mondaily – Lonely Seb takes on Jasper Byrne’s Lone Survivor
Ladies and Gentlemen, lend me your ears! And I would appreciate it if those of you whose ears have already been lent would also lend me your eyes because in my experience it's rather difficult to read something by listening to it. I mean don't get me wrong, I have tried to press my ear to my laptop before in order to listen to whatever article I was trying to read but that only works once in every ten times, and even then I don't hear everything.
It is that time of the week where we once again delve into the world of games with an awesome video in which we show off both our own awesome and the awesome of someone's game. The game in question this week is Lone Survivor, a recent Indie Survival Horror game, by Jasper Byrne. I personally delve into great depth and detail in the game to show it off to it's fullest extent (pfffffft)!
Doom 4 Leaked Art and Rumours
Once again it seems that there were recently rumours that ID Software had cancelled Doom 4. This was coupled with the leaking of, I understand hundreds, of concept art, pictures and graphics all supposedly of Doom 4. Now you might have already heard about either one of these (the leak or the rumours) and wonder why we haven't covered it yet. Well the reason is quite simple, I just wanted to make sure that I didn't waste my own time (and yours) with MORE speculation.
And I was in the right, on both counts bizarrely. Doesn't happen often.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Justine review
In honour of the teaser website for the next Amnesia game by Frictional Games I decided that I would do a retrospective on the original Amnesia and it's add-on Justine. Allow me to start the review by mentioning that I am well aware of how much has been said about this game by every reviewer in existence and I am likewise aware that there probably hasn't been anyone who's ever played it that didn't like it.
Well unless the player absolutely cannot stand having to shower every time after gaming from having pissed themselves in fear too much.
Dead Island DLC
Some new DLC for Dead Island will be hitting the Island on the 1st of February. Apparently featuring the main game's original antagonist, Colonel Ryder White, it makes for an interesting idea for some DLC. Perhaps it's a prequel of some sort... I don't know enough about Dead Island to be able to say...
What I do know, is that there is a trailer, it's pretty cool and the DLC will probably be full of even more awesome and gruesome bashing and slashing of zombies to bits. And disembowelling. And electrocuting. And shooting. Hell how many ways are there to actually KILL a zombie?!?