It absolutely would not be a total knock off of The Last of Us, right down to having infected zombie humans.Īnd when I say this is a knock off of The Last of Us, I'm not just talking about the presence of Clicker-like zombies. My expectation for a video game adaptation of The War of the Worlds would either be some kind of survival horror game about surviving against Martians who survived exposure to Earth's microbes, or an action shooter about humans counter-attacking the Martians on Mars, or something akin to XCOM. With all the potential of the source material, Steel Arts had to go with a zombie game?! The War of the Worlds is a classic sci-fi novel about a Martian invasion of Earth. As soon as I saw the first enemy, a zombie shambling around just like a Clicker from The Last of Us, my heart sank. I didn't have high hopes for this budget indie title, but I was curious what a game developer would even do with a property like War of the Worlds. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds,īut the visual and sound design is clearly pulled from the 2004 Steven Spielberg movie starring Tom Cruise. Wells' classic sci-fi novel The War of the World, called Darker Skies.ĭarker Skies takes place during the aftermath of H.G. shall we say "less high profile" games that piqued my interest, including the World War II shooter Hell Let Loose and a little indie game that claimed to be a sequel to H.G. You know, the Demon's Souls remake, Miles Morales, and Returnal. When I booted up my PS5 for the first time and signed into the PSN, I immediately downloaded a few of the must-have games. Post-apocalyptic sci-fi 3rd-person survival shooter ( < indicates platform I played for review) Nintendo Switch (via Nintendo Shop digital download). XBox Series S | X (via XBox Live digital download), PlayStation 5 < (via PSN digital download), The actual execution of that one boss encounter.No plot twist about dead family or other trauma. Levels loop back around to reduce back-tracking.
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