Antonio |
10-03-2013 12:49 AM |
Well I finished Sleeping Dogs about a week ago, really great game. Definitely recommend it if you like open world games with an emphasis on story.
Thomas Was Alone
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finished this the other day. At first I thought it was only about the characters and how you the player interacted with them, but as the story kept progressing it got more interesting as to where Thomas and his "friends" were headed off to do and what happens as a result. definitely one of the real surprises in the indie gaming scene for me.
Prey
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borrowed this from my friend a while ago, and just got around to playing it. I'm about halfway through this right now, and as far as I know it was a launch title for the 360 and was also on PC, but I just played the 360 version.
But yeah, this is not a completely oldschool FPS like the original Doom or Quake, but a little later in the genre's development. Think around the time of Doom III. As a result, this has a good older FPS feel and some interesting ideas in the gameplay. You play a character named Tommy who's visiting his Native American grandfather and his girlfriend on a reservation, and him and them are abducted by an alien race who wants to enslave them, with his grandfather killed in the process. Tommy now has to save his girlfriend and then the world and yeah you already heard this story before.
Anyway, what really makes this game fun is the gameplay. You mess with some of the alien technology including their weapons and vehicles, and the weapons are pretty cool and creative themselves(there's these creatures crawling on the ground that you could use as poison grenades) as well as Tommy's own powers to "Spirit Walk", or a power to separate himself from his body that his grandfather showed him through visions. You use it to get past barriers, solve puzzles and fight enemies. While they're not the toughest puzzles to solve they still break up the shooting bits with enemies pretty well. And also, the shooting is really fun and satisfying too. There's also these magnetic paths that allow you to walk upside down and on the sides of the walls, and it's pretty cool when you're shooting at an enemy that's at a 90 degree angle from you. That, and they could come in through portals that lead to different parts of a level, and it can be trippy at points. In a way this whole game is like one big peyote trip. XD
But yeah, if you're looking for something in the vein of Doom III with some interesting gameplay then give this a shot.
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