03.05.2007 NEW BIOSHOCK GAMEPLAY TRAILER

This new trailer shows us a lot of what Irrational Games has been working on in BioShock. The majority of the seven minute video is just one battle against a single "big daddy" enemy. You have to outwit the guardian of the little girl by doing more than just aiming and shooting, a speaker at the start of the clip talks you through what special items are involved in slaying the beastly looking scuba diver. The blood and fire particle effects look decent, but my favorite part is how well they worked shadows into the underwater environment. The translucent lighting combined with a creepy little girl who drinks blood makes me think the game will be a mix between Myst's setting and Silent Hill's gameplay. Irrational Games has done a great job keeping the story pretty mysterious, I plan on picking this up as soon as it comes out to see if it'll live up to the hype. The video ends with a narrator telling you that you'll have to make the choice between saving yourself or saving everyone else, so hopefully there will be a bunch of branching paths in the story and a few different endings for more interesting replayability than your typical shooting game.

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12.11.2006 FREE GAME: KNYTT

TheLastBoss's robotic friend Destructoid found a freeware adventure game called Knytt that looks simple, yet should give you hours of addictive exploration. Ico and Zelda fans will surely go nuts over this  game's size and depth. In the video above you can see that falling doesn't necessarily mean dying - the light fades and you just venture further in the depths of the underground. How deep does it go? How high? How wide? This hang glider video shows that it's wider than you'd expect as the player zips past countless screens only to find more adventures. With 160 screens total it proves to be quite the journey with plenty of secrets along the way.

All you have to do at the start is run around and jump on walls to climb up them, making exploration fast and fun. The plot it as simple as trying to find your way back to your home world, but you'll be in no hurry as you roam around. To venture further and deeper in the game you'll need to find certain items along the way though, and those that have already played it praise it for its amount of hidden secrets. If you're holding off on Twilight Princess, don't have enough money for cool virtual console games, or just plain bored, then this game should definitely help.

I'm gonna try to bring a variety of different entertaining games to the site each week, so if you find anything extra addictive then let me know.

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