Like many PC gamers of a certain age, I would pay a lot of money for a new Dungeon Keeper. Much of my childhood was spent in the underworld, constructing deviously designed dungeons and amassing an army of powerful creatures to do my bidding. I’ll be brief – despite obviously craving the accolade, Impire is most certainly not the new Dungeon Keeper. It shares certain thematic elements – the underground lair, the quest for world domination and the evil demon at the heart of the tale, but it lacks the charm and wit that made Bullfrog’s classic such a joy….
January 25, 2013 – 9:43 am
There’s something to be said for the idea that art can find expression in any medium. For Jake Elliott and Tamas Kemenczy of Cardboard Computer, their medium is the strange blend of audio, video, text, and interaction of digital games. As their earlier game Ruins showed, the studio has a penchant for the poetic and the dreamlike, and you’ll find those elements in spades in their latest (and currently ongoing) work Kentucky Route Zero. It’s an adventure game in five parts – the first released in December 2012, with later instalments to follow this year. Firmly on the quiet, contemplative…
