[360] [PS3] [PC] I Am Alive

[icycalm]

Action game from Ubisoft Shanghai with some sort of post-apocalyptic/disaster-survival theme. Grainy shots FTW:

http://videogamerx.gamedonga.co.kr/inde ... rl=1868976

Seems to be downloadable-only, which doesn't bode well for its quality.

[icycalm]

http://www.caltrops.com/2012/12/21/2012 ... -we-hated/

Pretty boring and nonsensical. It is ugly as shit and the story/setting/dialogue/plot are fucking god-awful. Completely unbelievable, irrational, nonsensical, bullshit. In a game with maybe ten NPCs in it, you really need to rely on plotting. This plot is shit.

I played about an hour of this on the 360, right up to the point where you get the gun, at which point the game crashed and I went to sleep. That was about a week or two ago. I've been meaning to give it some more time ever since, but shit was so boring I've just been putting it off, and having seen the above comments I decided not to. I am going to write half a mini review based on my experience, and then copy-paste the above text into it as the other half. That was really the reason I wanted to play the game a bit more: to find out if the plot/setting improved, which apparently they didn't, so fuck this game. It's not completely unplayable, it's even good on a couple of fronts (entirely mechanical ones, however) -- it's just so goddamn boring.