Tag: dead rising
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Games of the Generation – Part 2: The Intense
As a tactile, multi-sensory media, videogames are very good at getting under your skin. Whether it’s the sensory assault of Bayonetta, the twitch reflexes of shooters like Battlefield 3 or just the fact that the universe is about to be annihilated by Reapers, the most bombastic games grip you with a vice like intensity. And…
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Bored? Game! – City of Horror
Victims were apparently eaten… It could be Racoon city, or any other backwater American town in popular fiction at the mercy of a zombie invasion. The four cornerstones of American society – a bank, a gun shop, a church, and a hospital – stand around a deserted crossroads, overlooked by a water tower and strewn…
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The Dead Island trailer isn’t the worrying thing about the game
The controversial Dead Island trailer did its job ably and planted the game firmly on many radars when it was released earlier this year. Using smart cuts between forward and backward-running CGI footage, and, through either channelling Lost’s Michael Giacchino or holding him at gunpoint for the poignant score, it is a stunningly evocative piece…