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VGCs: Three Beyond the Veil
Apr. 13th, 2013 01:30 amA flurry of video game completion lately.
Venetica - As the current incarnation of Death's daughter, you must hunt down the cabal of necromancers who plan a coup over the power of Death in Renaissance Venice. If you are killed, you transition to the land of Death for a while before returning. The return costs a charge that may be recovered by defeating opponents with a particular magic sword. Your charges increase over the course of the game. This is a third-person action RPG. I thought it was pretty good.
Rage - You are the sole survivor during the re-emergence of an Arc, one of a number of underground facilities designed to preserve humanity after an apocalypse. You find yourself in a wasteland of bandit camps, settlements among the ruins, mutant nests, and the high-tech forces of the Authority. Soup up your growing collection of jalopies with armor and weaponry for vehicle combat in arenas and while traveling between missions. Wow, these game designers are lucky they don't have Bethesda's lawyers on their ass...wait, it was published by Bethesda and developed by id? Why didn't they just call it Fallout Racing and be done with it?
Anyway, this game is excellent. You acquire blueprints to make handy gizmos, collect cards for a gambling mini-game, and indulge in car racing/exploding. And blast the bejeezus out of everything in sight. A high quality FPS.
Ghostbusters - Join the four classic Ghostbusters as the silent Rookie. Master the use of your proton pack as additional capabilities become available just in time to meet new paranormal threats. Enjoy the schadenfreude as The Asshat of the 80s returns for more abuse. (That would be William Atherton. I had a post here award him that title, but I can't find it just now.) Another very well done game.
Venetica - As the current incarnation of Death's daughter, you must hunt down the cabal of necromancers who plan a coup over the power of Death in Renaissance Venice. If you are killed, you transition to the land of Death for a while before returning. The return costs a charge that may be recovered by defeating opponents with a particular magic sword. Your charges increase over the course of the game. This is a third-person action RPG. I thought it was pretty good.
Rage - You are the sole survivor during the re-emergence of an Arc, one of a number of underground facilities designed to preserve humanity after an apocalypse. You find yourself in a wasteland of bandit camps, settlements among the ruins, mutant nests, and the high-tech forces of the Authority. Soup up your growing collection of jalopies with armor and weaponry for vehicle combat in arenas and while traveling between missions. Wow, these game designers are lucky they don't have Bethesda's lawyers on their ass...wait, it was published by Bethesda and developed by id? Why didn't they just call it Fallout Racing and be done with it?
Anyway, this game is excellent. You acquire blueprints to make handy gizmos, collect cards for a gambling mini-game, and indulge in car racing/exploding. And blast the bejeezus out of everything in sight. A high quality FPS.
Ghostbusters - Join the four classic Ghostbusters as the silent Rookie. Master the use of your proton pack as additional capabilities become available just in time to meet new paranormal threats. Enjoy the schadenfreude as The Asshat of the 80s returns for more abuse. (That would be William Atherton. I had a post here award him that title, but I can't find it just now.) Another very well done game.
