Short Game Review: Shadow Complex
If you have 7 or more hours to kill, and you wish someone would make more 2D Metroid clones (with occasional, iffy use of the Z axis), this is the game for you. I hear it’s based on some Orson Scott Card novel, but I don’t know why they’d even bother claiming that, as it is a generic video game plot about a guy who has to take down a conspiracy of generic militants in robotic armor who want to conquer the U.S., and the characters don’t even appear in the novel. (That said, Peter David actually does much of the script writing, and it’s extremely enjoyable to sneak through ductwork and overhear bad guys saying the stuff that we always assumed bad guys must be discussing in video games.) Anyway, it’s slightly more expensive than a movie, but I’d say I’ve gotten decent bang for my buck.
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I took advantage of the deal on it this week and purchased it as well.
By Tony on 12.25.09 1:21 pm
It looked like fun, so much so (and in a not super hard way) that I may play it as well! (And that is saying a lot)
By Genevieve on 12.27.09 9:36 pm
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