#NEXUIZ DODGING FREE#

Where Bright Falls was an environment with real scope for exploration and a wealth of characters, American Nightmare feels sparse, even for a game set in a desert. That said I never understood Alan’s fascination with Thermos flasks, perhaps he’s planning a picnic once he’s saved the world…Īmerican Nightmare begins by discarding most of what made the original fantastic unfortunately. As other stalwarts of the genre put greater onus on the action than the scares the original Alan Wake toyed with you on a more psychological level while still being action packed where it needed to be.

It remains one of the current console generations finest survival horror games in my opinion. It gave me a believable chunk of small town America and then just as I became comfortable it started to twist the people and places against me as darkness slowly began infecting the town of Bright Falls, telling me a great story as it went. I’m a big fan of the original Alan Wake, it’s Stephen King trapped in Twin Peaks atmosphere really appealed to me.

Rather than review something older from my pile of shame because I’m saving my pennies for Mass Effect 3, I thought that this week I’d continue taking a look at XBLA’s House Party line-up, so without further ado, please welcome Alan Wake’s American Nightmare to the stage! So, in the vein of blogs like Cheapassgamer I’ll hopefully be going back and looking at a few of those too. Cash is tight for me and big games getting fewer and further between as summer approaches. The used market being what it is there are some bargains out there and equally, some enticing games that turn out to be an absolute dogs breakfast.

#NEXUIZ DODGING FREE#

I started out on those games after all, I may as well review the set … and no, I’m not counting Nexuiz, it was free to play before and it’s still free to play now, if you’re paying Microsoft for the privilege of doing so a review from me probably won’t penetrate your ever thickening field of ignorance anyway.Īfter that I’ve got a few cheap games to cast an eye over. Hopefully this week I’ll be wrapping some words around the last game in Microsofts XBLA House Party - I AM Alive. If you’re putting ME3 down and you haven’t played it please go back to posting racist remarks on YouTube comments sections, or however else it is you get your kicks between your zoo keepers allotted feeding times. Also, you have to have bought and played the game to do so, unlike so many people that have tried to tell me ME3 is an “epic fail” on both EA’s and BioWares part… Anyone, and I do mean anyone that would like to argue otherwise is welcome to do so, so long as they are prepared to sit down, shut up and eat humble pie three times a day from my plate. Sufficed to say, Mass Effect 3 is brilliant. Unfortunately I’ve had to spend so much time policing debates on ME3 and fielding the “I am a sane person who is not entitled to the world because he’s played a game for sixty hours” point of view, that it’s taken almost all my enthusiasm to wax lyrical on the subject away. Secondly, it was my intention, having already had a brief foray into covering smaller XBLA titles, to go back to what I started out doing as a reviewer all those years ago - write up a review on something suitably BIG. There are two reasons for this.įirstly, you may not have noticed but Mass Effect 3 was released a few weeks ago, as such my spare time has been invested elsewhere… Seeking out advanced alien races. No, I’m not kicking off a melancholy StainD based sing-a-long, it genuinely has been a while since I’ve posted.

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