Another week, another chance to save serious amounts on the games worth buying. Today the theme seems to be violence — fighting game prices everywhere are getting [upper]cut to size. I’d also like to flag the first decent discount on Aliens: Dark Descent. It’s got my pick as the sleeper hit of 2023. Absolutely nails the intensity of James Cameron’s Aliens.
In historical news, it’s been 32 years to the day since Aussies first met the blue dude with the ‘tude. Yep, Sonic the Hedgehog spindashed to stardom on CRTs everywhere. This prompted much critical acclaim and the first major conversations about gaming / light-induced seizures. Chalk that up to too much ‘blast processing’ or simply Sega doing what Nintendidn’t, I guess.
If you have any kind of co-op partner in your life, be they spouse, friend, sibling, or other (even a child, though the themes might be too mature for them), It Takes Two is a truly joyful trip you really need to take.
Borrowing from some of the greatest squad-based tactics games and adding its own twists, I don’t think I’ve played anything that really gets what was so cool about Aliens, the film, since Monolith’s Aliens Versus Predator 2.
The Callisto Protocol is a satisfyingly gory spiritual successor to the Dead Space series, but it’s ultimately more of a striking modern mimic than a scary new mutation. Well worth stalking at this price, though.
Includes playable characters Alien, Leatherface, Triborg, and Bo’Rai Cho. Also, previously released playable characters like Predator, Jason Voorhees, Tremor, Tanya, and Goro. Not to mention the Apocalypse Skin Pack.
