My Twitter feed is fairly video-game heavy, but there’s a chance that yesterday at approximately 3pm, you saw Twitter explode with tweets about the announcement of Fallout 4. That and everyone making some kind of comment or joke about the dog in the trailer.
So what’s the fuss about Fallout 4? Is the series worth getting in to and do you have to start from the beginning?
Proteus is a sharp departure from what most people think of when they start talking about video games. Set in a randomly generated psychedelic landscape, the aim of the game is to…
…and here we hit upon the thing that makes Proteus a bit of a talking point for some people. The game does not give you any clear goals or win conditions.
Proteus uses something that many games forget about: Colour.
The beautiful, colourful and calming stress-free landscape of Proteus does make it perfect for one thing and that is learning how to control games played in a first person perspective.
Hunting giant monsters with your friends or being a giant monster hell-bent on destroying your friends sounds like an excellent pitch for an online multiplayer game to me. Evolve lets you hunt monsters and gives you the option to become the monster yourself if you feel like it.
Is it any good? I’ll be running a proper review soon once I put a few more hours into it, but here are nine things that you can love about stomping around as a monster, or chasing after a monster that’s stomping around in Evolve.