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The Last Guy -- Google Earth + Zombie Apocalypse
Bamelin
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9umbflFsFp0
A much clearer video can be seen here: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/07/31/the-last-guy-is-here-to-rescue-you/
The Last Guy is the latest downloadable game to appear on the Playstation Network, and has showed up with very little fanfaire.
I downloaded the demo last night and found the game to be pretty addicting ... I'm on the verge of buying this one. You don't truly known the meaning of panic until you have 200 civilians following you, with zombies closing in on every street corner.
From the PS blog:
The game is pretty simple yet at the same time really makes you sweat. You have a set time limit to round up enough survivors and they die oh so easily. Strategies abound. Should I get as many survivors as I can and try to lead a long ass line of whimpering, civilians to the safety zone? While this can be very rewarding, the downside is that that long line of civilians may suffer ... casualties along the way (gruesome death at the hands of the zombie hordes)
Shorter lines of surivivors are easier to get back to safety, but you've got a quota to reach.
I recommend everyone at least give the demo a whirl, I'm enjoying the game alot more than I thought I would.
A much clearer video can be seen here: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/07/31/the-last-guy-is-here-to-rescue-you/
The Last Guy is the latest downloadable game to appear on the Playstation Network, and has showed up with very little fanfaire.
I downloaded the demo last night and found the game to be pretty addicting ... I'm on the verge of buying this one. You don't truly known the meaning of panic until you have 200 civilians following you, with zombies closing in on every street corner.
From the PS blog:
Playstation Blog wrote:Set some time in the 21st century, a mysterious purple ray hits Earth, turning anyone touched by the light into a monster or zombie. With zombies roaming the streets, unaffected people lucky enough to have been inside a building when the ray hit are anxiously holding their collective breath, waiting for someone to rescue them. As The Last Guy, you are the survivors’ last hope to survive this global crisis. Actually, the hero of the game is himself a zombie from the Himalayan mountains, on a quest to save the remaining humans from the zombies that have infested it.
Go forth and save!!
As for the gameplay, here’s a basic rundown. The Last Guy is a fast-paced and addictive classic arcade style game with simple controls. The game uses real-life aerial maps of various cities around the world, including Tokyo, London and Los Angeles. As the player, you are the last remaining hope in each of these cities to rescue mankind from the zombies roaming the streets. As you navigate the city, you gather survivors hidden throughout buildings and other nooks and crannies in the city. Once rescued, the nervous survivors will form a line behind you. The objective is to lead them back to the Escape Zone so the United Rescue Force can pick them up and whisk them off to safety.
To complete a stage, you have to get enough survivors back to the escape zone before time runs out. Which isn’t as easy as it looks, because if zombies get too close, the people in line scream and scatter back into the buildings, meaning you have to rescue them again. So you’ll want to keep everyone as far away from the zombies as possible.
Along the way, you will encounter 10 types of zombies , not including tougher “boss†enemies. As the Last Guy, you possess special powers like thermography or heat vision to help you see where survivors are hiding. You’ll also find helpful power-ups, like freezing time, warping back to the escape zone and temporary invisibility, scattered throughout the city to help avoid the pesky zombies.
The game is pretty simple yet at the same time really makes you sweat. You have a set time limit to round up enough survivors and they die oh so easily. Strategies abound. Should I get as many survivors as I can and try to lead a long ass line of whimpering, civilians to the safety zone? While this can be very rewarding, the downside is that that long line of civilians may suffer ... casualties along the way (gruesome death at the hands of the zombie hordes)
Shorter lines of surivivors are easier to get back to safety, but you've got a quota to reach.
I recommend everyone at least give the demo a whirl, I'm enjoying the game alot more than I thought I would.
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Kind of a cool idea. Reminds me of undead Pac-Man.
It is pretty quick, actually. From the demo I played, the youtube video didn't really look sped up. It's a neat game, but I'm not sure it's something I would pay 10 dollars for. It seems like one of those games that, in the end, the demo would probably be enough for me to bust out on occasion, play a couple times, and pack it away again, unless they add some really big play differences in later levels.
Let me tell you about Demon's Souls....
Well I've already ruined a few social lives (including my own
In all honesty though 9.99 is abit much to ask. I think I'm going to wait and see if it comes down in cost.
Also, I think I would have liked the gameplay mechanics a little better if they were more Smash TV and less Pac Man. Still, a neat idea.
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Actually yeah, that would be awesome if you could plug in your own maps, but at the same time I would imagine that would be a bit tough to do.
And I wouldn't really say it was closer to Smash TV since you really don't have any offensive moves other than running the hell away.
Regardless everyone that hasn't downloaded the demo should do so.
Yeah that's what I'm saying, I would have liked it if there were some offensive options and it was more like Smash TV, instead of being like Pac Man. I like Pac Man (I love Pac Man CE in fact) but when I think "Zombies," I also think "I want to kill them."
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The presentation is fantastic, and it is quirky and tongue-in-cheek, but the core game-play mechanic just doesn't interest me at all.
http://exanimusthegame.com/
Not to be off topic, of course.
Oh a flash version... Hmm...
Edit: hahaha! Tried the PA page and got stuck in the logo!
I think he was actually yelling at you for not using addictive.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
doh!