Video games: Hump day news roundup
- Here’s an interesting thing: There’s a game coming out for the Playstation 3 Network called The Last Guy. (Details are scarce, but the rumor is you’ll be playing the last guy.) Wired has a description and video, and it looks like you’ll be leading citizens through real cities to escape giant monsters, kind of like a cross between Pac-man, Snake and Google Maps.
- There’s an interview with a guy from Stalker: Clear Sky at Rock, Paper, Shotgun. It isn’t much, but there’s a 25-minute trailer of the game if you hadn’t seen it before. Clear Sky is the followup to the best game about running around in a freaky irradiated sci-fi Chernobyl. Admittedly that’s a limited field, but you can’t go wrong with the premise. The developers of Stalker promised an awful lot that they didn’t quite deliver on, but they distinguished themselves by providing something that was pretty darn good despite what was cut.
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But here I am with the dubious gift from a friend of mine who’s stationed in Afghanistan. While he’s filling sandbags, he’s requested I play his character in EVE Online. (He also requested a carton of Camel filters and all the Naruto episodes burned to DVD, but those are just one-time things.)
Steve’s pick for the Worst Movie Ever was Lommel’s Borderline Cult, which stars nobody and features nothing. I must, however, give the director credit for trying. Everything about the film is horrible and offensive, but it hs a certain stylistic flair that hints at the possibility of a not-bad movie, buried deep in there somewhere. If this guy didn’t suck so badly, he might be able to turn all that creativity into something good. Unfortunately, since he sucks, the flair just makes it worse.
So, there’s a
I’d like to tell you about another Japanese game that’s been in heavy rotation on the house PS3 this week:
The demo for the Spore Creature Creator has 