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.
The Last of Us is a zombie apocalypse survival adventure game that will push your emotional buttons.
If it does not make you cry, it will at least give it a good go and at the very least, you will experience your brain triggering that cry response that simulates the feeling of a golf ball being lodged in the back of your throat.
Read on for how The Last of Us will make you want to cry and generally make you feel at the end of your emotional tether.
(This post includes some mild spoilers about things that happen early on in the game, but stuff that I’m glad was not spoiled for me.)
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is a third person action shooter / brawler which does exactly what you would expect in that you play a Space Marine in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. This is a very simple premise the bellies a much more complicated background.
You take control of Captain Titus of the Ultramarines as you attempt to liberate a forge world from an Ork invasion with the help of two of your battle-brothers by murdering as many invading aliens as possible. The plot then opens up into the investigation of a doomsday-like device that the Inquisition have been working on in secret that harbours powers of the warp.
There will be parts of that last paragraph that you will not understand unless you are familiar with the Warhammer 40,000 setting, something that I think THQ are going to have a hard time with because there’s a problem here. The Warhammer 40,000 setting is weird. Brilliantly weird, but still weird none the less. There will also be more than one person giggling that the big blue space marines are called Ultramarines.