It feels like it's been forever since the first-person custodial genre has gotten any love. Thankfully, this oversight is being rectified with Viscera Cleanup Detail, which is currently seeking votes on Steam Greenlight and playable thanks to this early alpha download. I often complain the entire first-person perspective has been monopolized by shooters, so I'm glad to see a scrappy indie team come in to clean those shooters' clocks.
The game is the product of an internal, 10-day game jam at developer RuneStorm. It tasks the player with tidying up the messy aftermath of a thwarted alien invasion. From the looks of it, the toll was heavy on the human side, unless the aliens have red blood. Shouldn't aliens have different color blood? I think so. Anyways, massacre be damned. Why mope when you could mop?
Viscera Cleanup Detail features first-person mopping with the world's greatest mop (look at those bloated mop tentacle physics!), organ and viscera incinerating, and more. It's kind of amazing. Especially when your mop gets too bloody that it just starts spreading more blood all over unless you wring it out in the bucket, but why would you wring it out in the bucket when you could paint a bloody masterpiece like you're Clint Eastwood in High Plains Drifter.
If you dig this, you more learned folks might also enjoy Surgeon Simulator 2013 .
Tidy up a space marine's mess with Viscera Cleanup Detail [Polygon]
Hockey and non-hockey fans alike might remember the iconic NHL '94, the first NHL game to feature actual NHL rosters, teams, and logos. It also removed fighting and blood per league concerns. True to its era, NHL '94 offered a simpler form of sports gameplay, more arcade-styled and accessible, fun for either hockey fans who weren't big into games or game fans who weren't big into hockey.
For NHL 14 and the 20th anniversary of the series, NHL '94 is making a triumphant return as its own optional game mode, featuring all the iconic trappings of the game. The ice is blue, the player indicators are stars, and the music reverts to 16-bit organ tunes. They even removed the advertisements from the boards. In an EA game.
Gameplay-wise, of course, it's back to a simplistic button layout, while penalties are non-existent. NHL 14 physics minus the penalties can only mean a good time decking your friends. EA has been bringing its old sports properties back of late, with the wonderful NBA Jam: On Fire Edition and the slightly awkward NHL Blitz remake. Cool to see the NHL series get some love, and as an included game mode, no less. Does it feel too weird in 3D?
Ninja Theory, developer of the recent, divisive DmC: Devil May Cry, has a new trailer up on its website that chronicles its work during this soon to be recent generation. Spliced in is also a more mysterious project featuring a blue haired woman, which could be a glimpse of whatever new IP the developer is working on for next generation. The video ends with a "thanks for a kickass generation" note, which seems to imply, along with the rapidly approaching PS4 and Xbox One launch dates, that the unknown project is indeed for next gen.
The video serves as a nice remembrance for what the studio has worked on this console generation, with a small, sad counterpoint. Each montage features a Metacritic score awarded to the title in question. It is, I suppose, nice to track what can be seen as improvement, but it's a sad reminder of things like Metacritic-based worker bonuses. This is in turn a sad reminder of how poorly Enslaved: Odyssey to the West seems to have sold because it's a phenomenal game featuring some of the best writing, as well as acting, of the generation.
Still, all seems well. DmC: Devil May Cry is in the can, much to the chagrin of many of you -- personally, I dig the game for its gorgeous, Gravity Rush-styled aesthetic alone -- and Ninja Theory seems to be back to creating new IPs. Warm's the heart. Now comes the painful wait for something that can hopefully surpass Enslaved. Seriously, that game is fantastic, go buy a damn copy.
Ninja Theory posts new footage from mystery project [All Games Beta]
In Total War: Rome II 's take on the Battle of the Nile, you can either play as the Egyptians or the Romans. The latter is at a distinct disadvantage in terms of positioning and troop numbers, which means, yep, let's go with them for the walkthrough video. It's clearly the more entertaining of the two. Enjoy approximately 12 minutes of footage as we wait for September to get here.
Having tried and failed miserably at this mission myself, it's nice to see how things are supposed to be done. Even in failure, Rome II is a blast to watch unfold.
The gall of some people.
Here I was innocently joking in Chris Carter's review of iOS exclusive Deus Ex: The Fall that the lead character looks like Jean Reno, amidst all the "I never asked for this" quips. Then I catch wind, via Kotaku, that Eidos put restrictions in play to keep owners of jail broken iPhones and iPads from playing its $7 mobile Deus Ex -- restrictions that are kept hidden until users actually buy the thing. Playing on a jail broken device disables shooting.
While you could feasibly play through the game stealthily, sans guns, players (via user reviews left on the game's page) have been running into this restriction during The Fall's early tutorial, which could mean progress is stopped from that point on, unless you can get through the tutorial another way.
What dystopic cyberpunk future have I wandered into? Jail breaking your iOS device is a perfectly legal thing for you to do with a pricey piece of technology you purchased. Eidos is treating such consumers like pirates by implementing this hidden, game crippling feature. If this is meant to be an anti-piracy measure, it still strains credulity, because I doubt pirates would find it challenging to get passed such a measure. If you have a jail broken iOS device, save yourself $7 and avoid Deus Ex: The Fall.
Eidos Disables Your Guns in iOS Deus Ex, If Your Device is Jailbroken [Kotaku]
The publisher of Saints Row IV, Metro: Last Light, and Dead Island will be working with inXile Entertainment on the crowdfunded Wasteland 2 . Deep Silver will be responsible for the role-playing game's release at retail, quality-assurance testing of the localized international version, and fulfillment of physical Kickstarter rewards -- a bigger task than it might initially seem -- while inXile is free to "focus on all creative aspects" of development.
"This has the added bonus of allowing us to spend more of the Kickstarter funds on development while continue to retain all ownership and control," said inXile CEO Brian Fargo. "I've known the people at Deep Silver for many years and they have always been a first rate organization to deal with." Seems like a good collaboration, then. If nothing else, it's an excuse to bring up Wasteland 2, which is coming along slowly but surely. Check out that HUD!
The co-founders of Gears Of War and Unreal studio Epic Games walked away from this year’s Develop conference with the Development Legend award.
Tim Sweeney and Mark Rein founded Epic in 1991 and the team also scooped up an honour for their Unreal engine at the ceremony in Brighton last night.
Other winners included Crytek, with Crysis 3 topping the Visual Arts category, Rovio with Angry Birds Star Wars for the Best Use Of A Licence Or IP and Oculus VR taking away the Technical Innovation award.
The full list can be found over at Develop.
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Remember Obscure ? It was that fun looking four-player side-scrolling beat-em-up/shooter. Well it's undergone a name change, and you can now refer to it as Final Exam. The name was changed largely due to how fans kept thinking this was supposed to be a sequel of sorts to that other ObsCure games. Whoops!
The game's website has also launched following the name change if you're looking to learn more about Final Exam. I'm personally looking forward it as you can never have enough co-op games like this. Expect Final Exam to release sometimes this Spring on Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and PC.
Dragon's Crown . The mere mention of once recondite game seems to inflame impassioned arguments over the title's character art. Still, it's a Vanillaware game. And, like everything else the studio touches, it looks absolutely stunning. Should you agree, Dragon's Crown Artworks may be of interest.
It's a 64-page art book of George Kamitani's gorgeous handiwork, showcasing everything from full-color drawings of rats in wizard hats to the various poses protagonists shift between in the game. Atlus is including a copy of the book with every pre-order of the Dragon's Crown when the title releases on August 6. In the meantime, you can check out a sampler in the gallery:
There's something about the Fifth Element movie. I always watch it when it's on TV. Every time. No matter what part it is, no matter how many times I've seen it. This has nothing to do with anything on the site, really.
Today, Storm took another adventure through the God of War series, reviewed the new Shin Megami title for 3DS, somehow someone started a petition to get Microsoft's DRM back into the Xbox One (say whaaaat?), and more happened on the tenth of July, 2013.
Oh, and I got laid off today from my day job. So that sucked.
Destructoid Originals:
Storm's Adventure with The God of War Anthology Part 3
Live show: Colosseum: Road to Freedom
Community:
Community blogs of 7/10
Forum thread of the day: Animal Crossing New Leaf
Reviews:
Review: Shin Megami Tensei IV
Events:
Tokyo Game Show exhibitors announced, Microsoft included
