Diary of A Sane Man

I think I want THIS GAME Raw Danger. Usually I smack up organized crime goons, beat down serial killers, deal in illicit goods or kill terrorists in the video games I play. I’ve never played a game where I had to cope with a natural disaster (Prevent, maybe, but cope with? Nah.) so I’m intrigued to say the least. Front row tickets for the city-wide apocalypse and you gotta not only survive, but help other people to survive, all the while dealing with mother nature’s full-on wrath.

I love the idea that you have to keep your body temperature up in the game. With the city flooding and the rain not stopping it would have been a glaring omission had they not included hypothermia as a reality of the game. I hope they pull it off right. It looks like a semi-free roam game (I believe there’s still “levels” but they’re big and roaming) so you might not always find something to warm you up in time. Sweet. There’s some roleplaying elements thrown in too as well. And here’s the killer for me (killer as in “awesome”, not “ugh”), the friggin’ coup-de-grace, the death-strike for any resistance I might have put up: what you do with each of the six playable characters affects some things that happens to the other five characters. Booyah. I’m sold.

The graphics look a little weak, but I have a feeling that it’s intentionally so due to all the shit going on on the screen and in the background. It would suck if the game had lag issues, so I have a feeling that this is why they dumbed down the graphics a bit. They aren’t terrible, mind you, it’s just no Resident Evil 4.

I can’t wait for Raw Danger to hit the stores used shelf.

-=Grim=-

This entry was posted on Monday, April 16th, 2007 at 2:21 pm and is filed under Video Games. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.