The Last Guy (PSN)
Demo is up on the Playstation Store... didn't expect that so soon! It's only a single level but the game is really darn cool. The Last Guy is a play on the classic snake game. You run around from building to building collecting people and taking them to the extraction point while making sure the zombies on the map don't monch them up. You can do a boost run and also gather all your people closer but that uses up stamina which slowly recovers over time. The cool part is that the more people you collect behind you the larger your stamina bar gets so it encourages you to really push how many people you can collect at a single time. Also, the maps are high-res satellite photos (or certainly look like they are) and the game claims to have 10 real-world locations to run around. I really like the visuals and the whole game is just really simple and unique.
Even just from that single level I can tell the game is going to be a lot of fun. It's out next Thursday the 28th for $9.99. I'm all over this.
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I'm downloading the demo as I type this.
You mean it's a top-down game for the PSN that's not a dual stick shooter? That is blasphemy, sir, and I won't stand for it.
It sounds like the "Protest roundup" game in WTF for the PSP. You gather a bigger and bigger crowd of people, trying to avoid The Man (who has narcs, like, everywhere trying to keep us down maaaaan) and try to get them to the site of the big rally.
It's my favorite game on WTF. I hope there's more to it in The Last Guy, though. For ten bucks there ought to be, like, shotguns or something.
hbi2k wrote:
I found it was hard to see what was going on. The satellite imagery is a novel idea, but it seems to make for an overcluttered screen. I think it would have been a lot better if they just designed it to be zoomed in about 50% more, so the last guy, people, and monsters would all be easier to identify in the environment.
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I had a really hard time figuring out what was what the first time through, but by the third time I'd played it I got used to what everything looked like.
My biggest problem with it was the way the map worked. It felt like some paths that should be open were blocked off, while I could pass through others. That might have been my imagination though.
Still, pretty nifty. Might be worth the ten bucks when I have ten bucks in the budget to spend on a PSN game.
hbi2k wrote:
If it's just your imagination, then I'm a figment you've conjured up, because I had the same problem. Can you imagine me a pony?
This is a fun game. Picked this up today. I'm thoroughly convinced we need a PSN thread similar to the XBLA thread. There are tons of great games on PSN.
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Any word if this game is coming to PSP also?
I've been looking at gameplay videos and it looks quite novel and very fun, in an old-school arcade kind of way.
I don't have a PS3 so I can't judge just how processor-intensive the final game is, but it doesn't seem too tech heavy.
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