Homefront strikes a rare nerve with its premise. The moment we began the single-player campaign, something unusual in videogames happened to us: we became terrified simply by a premise. Surely it has to do with a startlingly realistic idea that challenges the comfort of US supremacy in the modern era. We would imagine, though, that it has the potential for hitting a similar nerve for UK gamers, since although it doesn’t take place on “home” soil for those of you across the Atlantic, it still presents an unsettling, unfamiliar situation that neither the US nor UK has experienced in recent memory: military occupation...
The developers at inXile know that Hunted: The Demon’s Forge has been called “fantasy Gears of War,” or, more cleverly, “Spears of Gore,” but they embrace it… kind of. It’s “back to the basics” for Lead Designer Brian Fargo, industry veteran and founder of Interplay (the publisher of Fallout back in the day), who says he’s “recapturing the dungeon crawl experience.” That experience includes fulfilling, Gears-style combat, but according to Fargo, the comparison ends there, because Hunted is also about losing yourself in a twisted maze of riddles, secrets, and traps. It’s “Spears of Gore” with a splash of The Bard’s Tale (Fargo’s 1985 dungeon crawler), and maybe a little Resident Evil 5...
How Bethesda's new shooter shakes up the genre with a lot of fantasy magic.
E3 is barely a week away, and we're building upon our list of games we want to see more of at the preeminent gaming expo. In the second part of our twice-weekly E3 previews, this time we're looking at a game that might have you saying "Huwha? What the hell is Hunted: The Demon's Forge?" Well, let us tell you...
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