![]() “Dark and mature” may not be the go-to description for Star Wars, particularly since LucasArts’ acquisition by the House of Mouse, but such is the promise for this third person actioner. Crystal Dynamics are certainly brave in taking this iconic character in such a dark, mature direction - but will the cost to our heroine’s empowerment prove too great a price to pay? Vulnerability and survival are the watchwords for this reinvention of the Tomb Raider series, which finds a young and unworldly Lara Croft shipwrecked on an island - a far cry from the backflipping, dual-wielding daredevil treasure-seeker who murdered her way through polygonal archeological hoards during the mid-nineties. This one promises to add themes of insanity and perception to the traditional jump-scares and body-horror. What’s more, the game’s roots have hardly been forgotten: it's still perfectly possible to play the game on your tod. Firstly, didn’t we all the say the same gloomy things about Mass Effect 3’s excellent multiplayer? Secondly, Dead Space already showed it could deliver terror to a twosome in its (actually terrific, sadly undersold) Wii light-gun game. ![]() The sudden appearance of a co-op mode in this venerable space-horror franchise may sound like the marketing department got a little trigger happy with the back-of-box checklist, but there are reasons to be optimistic. It’s not only a showcase for the kind of polygon-crunching power the cutting edge PC can generate (finally loosed from the shackles of last-gen cross platform releases) but it also establishes a fiction that Ubisoft hopes will see it through the next decade. Now, the same gigantic studio, Ubisoft Montreal, has unveiled Watch Dogs - a game with no smaller a scope than Assassin’s Creed, combining the complex sedition of information warfare with brutish third-person action and, it is suspected, with some sort of clever multiplayer/singleplayer crossover. Though in recent years, Ubisoft has been happy to milk the Assassin’s Creed licence until its ruddy teats squeaked, let us not forget that the space-wizards-thru-history mega-franchise was born of huge creative risk: a new IP that cost so much develop that, rumour has it, sales didn’t cover the cost of development until its sequels were on shelves. Click on to discover why 2013 may just be the most exciting year for gamers yet.īelow, a special hour-long discussion between Logan, Evan, and Tyler about what they're looking forward to most in 2013. There are more combat bows than you can shake a punctured elk at, an unholy host of horrors, genre-smashing interstellar epics, multiplayer mega-franchises, petrolhead-pleasers, reinvigorated point-and-clickers, Kickstarter darlings, Greenlight outliers and many, many more. The next 12 pages detail nearly every reason to be excited about the 365 days to come, and the armada of delights they bring. But what’s that on the horizon, surging through the frothy wake of the year just gone? It’s - surprise! - 2013. "Knowing that it will be just one part of a larger experience, with all the sandbox survival gameplay that Stalker fans will want, makes it even more enticing."īut as a free download there's no harm in trying the game later this week - even if it might take until Survarium's meatier 30 players versus the environment Freeplay mode for things to really get interesting.2012 bobs away on the rushing river of history, washing into the past a dozen Dunwall guard bark memes, at least one controversially-terminated space saga and a worryingly-exhilarating excess of animal slaughter. "Even if Survarium were only ever going to be an online shooter, this beta is promising enough that I'd be looking forward to it," he wrote. In fact, the game's Early Access edition sounds like it will be similar to the open beta we played back in January, which Eurogamer's Dan Whitehead largely enjoyed. The current build only offers a simple PVP experience - the more robust Co-op and PVE Freeplay modes are still in development.ĭeveloper Vostok Games has set out a monthly update plan based around feedback from the community, but it sounds like those other modes are still a way off. ![]() The game is a long way from being complete. Survarium is designed as a free-to-play experience, but three limited edition starter packs will also be made available for sale. Post-apocalyptic shooter Survarium become available to download via Steam Early Access this Thursday, 2nd April at 8pm UK time.
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