One day I was talking to a classmate about games when he mentioned a "vertical shooter...with jet packs!". It took him a few moments then he recalled the name of Dark Void. I started to look into this game to see that it's release date is January 19, 2010, and stated to wonder why I hadn't heard of it yet. The story is a cargo pilot named William Grey crashes in the Bermuda Triangle and is teleported to a parallel universe where he meets other humans, called Survivors. The Survivors are battling an alien race known as the Watchers to get back to Earth. The Watchers are creatures that came to Earth and started making humans do their bidding. Eventually people called Adepts emerged and banished the Watchers to the realm that William gets sent to. What draws me in is the introduction of vertical cover. This story seems interesting, but usually in shooters stories are just kind of there to give you a reason to blow stuff up (not always, but usually) so I'm not necessarily excited about the story that sounds interesting. Although what does interest me is the combat. When in combat, you can climb up walls with your jetpack, which brings in new ways to defend yourself and attack the enemy. Also, the developers seem to be trying their best to make the flying of the UFOs and jetpack as responsive as possible to avoid the annoyances of some flying games where you try to turn and just hit a wall. I'm looking forward to this game, but I'm going to wait until the reviews are out because when you're dealing with something that has physics like jumping up cliffs and flying around with jetpacks, it could be easy to make the game hard to control, therefore not fun.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Dark Void
One day I was talking to a classmate about games when he mentioned a "vertical shooter...with jet packs!". It took him a few moments then he recalled the name of Dark Void. I started to look into this game to see that it's release date is January 19, 2010, and stated to wonder why I hadn't heard of it yet. The story is a cargo pilot named William Grey crashes in the Bermuda Triangle and is teleported to a parallel universe where he meets other humans, called Survivors. The Survivors are battling an alien race known as the Watchers to get back to Earth. The Watchers are creatures that came to Earth and started making humans do their bidding. Eventually people called Adepts emerged and banished the Watchers to the realm that William gets sent to. What draws me in is the introduction of vertical cover. This story seems interesting, but usually in shooters stories are just kind of there to give you a reason to blow stuff up (not always, but usually) so I'm not necessarily excited about the story that sounds interesting. Although what does interest me is the combat. When in combat, you can climb up walls with your jetpack, which brings in new ways to defend yourself and attack the enemy. Also, the developers seem to be trying their best to make the flying of the UFOs and jetpack as responsive as possible to avoid the annoyances of some flying games where you try to turn and just hit a wall. I'm looking forward to this game, but I'm going to wait until the reviews are out because when you're dealing with something that has physics like jumping up cliffs and flying around with jetpacks, it could be easy to make the game hard to control, therefore not fun.
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