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RESISTANCEISFUN The tripods are looking
for you. Good luck.
Rage against machines in THE LAST RESISTANCE
ilderness and robots tools that make the smaller enemies
make for an evocative at least rather trivial to deal with.
W combination, one that The AI of those little spider bots is
works particularly well in the decidedly simplistic: they won’t stop
compact playing field of The Last chasing you, ever, until you’re dead.
Resistance: a game of hiding from Or, more likely, until they’re dead, as
deadly robots, and then taking they’re far slower and weaker than
them down. Playing out like a very, you are. The massive, War of the
very small-scale Far Cry, you’re Worlds-style tripod enemies pose a You can smash down
dropped into a refreshingly Nordic deadlier threat, and remain an barriers with the axe.
open space that offers maybe ten ominous presence even as you
minutes of exploration as you increase in killing power. The game
increase your arsenal enough to comes alive when you’re sprinting
eliminate a robot threat. There’s a between their search lights, to the
handsome bleakness to the next shack and its resources.
environment that makes it more The Last Resistance, however, is a
attractive than many apocalypses, small game. Not just in terms of map
its muted hues contrasting nicely size, but in its progression: you
with the stark black and glowing acquire the axe, and then the shotgun
red of the scattered enemies. in a linear order.
While you likely won’t replay it,
Speaking of which, it’s your job to there’s something to be NEED TO KNOW
eliminate them. You start the game said for a game where you 65
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READYPLAYERONE Christ.
From robots to no bots with NO PLAYERS ONLINE
here’s something eerie the Flag. It’s this steadily growing
about a public space that is anticipation that makes No Players
Tdevoid of people, a fact that Online so wonderfully tense to play
first-person horror No Players – you just know something will
Online utilises to its advantage. It’s happen as you run from capture
set in an online FPS, but one where point to capture point. But what will
you’re the only player. Meaning it’s that be, exactly?
just you and your gun, running As NPO comes to a close, and its
around an empty map. cards are laid out on the table, it When are ghosts going
becomes clear that it owes something to discover MP3s?
Naturally it’s not quite that simple to the technological horror of the
and the game eventually throws Ring series, only with a haunted
surprises at you, like… well, they game rather than a spooky videotape.
wouldn’t be very surprising if I gave If the final revelation is a bit
them all away. But the game’s few set- preposterous, then it’s hard to fault
pieces are effective, well-paced, the general theme of the game: what
expertly introduced and more are old servers but essentially
original than the prankish jump graveyards haunted by the people
scares found in many horror games. that have abandoned them?
Without revealing too much, the Though NPO doesn’t fully explore
abandoned server you’re playing on its promising premise, it does raise
isn’t quite as empty as the game questions as it puts one NEED TO KNOW
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