Tag: apocalyptic
Synced: Off Planet is another live service shooter set in an apocalyptic future
Synced: Off Planet — a free-to-play multiplayer Rogue Like live service Looter Shooter (bingo!) — is releasing into Open Beta on December 10. Ahead of the curtain being pulled back for the public to see, myself and Sherif were able to try out some of the PvE content in an early press event.
Back from our adventure in the next of a long line of login-bonus ridden gameplay experiences, we sat down with Welsh Actor and our very own video person Jim Trinca, who interrogated us on our time with Synced. Our main takeaway? It’s alright… A perfectly acceptable, if a tad standard, shooter that may still appeal to a core audience upon release. For our full thoughts, check out the video above.
Synced takes place in an apocalyptic world where Nanos roam an exclusion zone, following a devastating disaster that dealt the dwellers of dozens of nearby domiciles a doomed hand from a dire deck. You, a brave explorer looking to venture inside this perilous region of the world in search of loot, secrets, and exhilarating peril must take on these Nano enemies as they appear in monstrous forms.
The Rings of Power just teed up the apocalyptic future of The Lord of the Rings
And they call it a ‘mine!’ A ‘mine!’
Warlander is third-person Chivalry with apocalyptic meteor showers
It’s a very odd feeling, building a catapult all on your lonesome while watching fiery death rain down on your enemy’s castle in the valley below. I suspect it’s probably a similar experience to watching the carnage of Chivalry II play out from the safety of a nearby bench. The newly announced Warlander from Nier Replicant devs Toylogic certainly has the medieval setting in common with Torn Banner Studio’s first-person hack and slash, but this free-to-play multiplayer warfare game is an altogether different beast. You control your warriors in third-person, for starters, and its more cartoonish visuals allow for, well, daft cataclysmic events like a flaming meteor shower to hone in on a player’s position without appearing completely over the top. As it prepares to enter its first open beta later today, September 12th, I went hands on with a brief demo build to see what it was all about.
‘White Noise’ trailer teases a postmodern, apocalyptic satire with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig
Don DeLillo’s postmodern 1985 novel White Noise has been described, like many of the author’s works, as “unfilmable”, rendering screen adaptations difficult. But director Noah Baumbach has tackled the material, resulting in his own White Noise, made for Netflix.
Starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, the movie is a contemporary satire, a blend of both comedy and horror. Driver plays a college professor of “Hitler studies”, who is married to his extremely private counterpart, played by Gerwig. Their family’s quiet suburban life is shaken up when an airborne accident casts chemical waste throughout their town.
White Noise has a huge cast, with Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Lars Eidinger, Andre Benjamin, and Jodie Turner-Smith also starring. This is Baumbach and Driver’s latest project together, following Marriage Story (2019).
The movie will open the 60th New York Film Festival next month, with the film festival’s artistic director, Dennis Lim, calling it “an unequivocal triumph”. We’ll have to wait until it hits Netflix to see for ourselves — the streaming date is TBC.
Apocalyptic FPS Meet Your Maker will have you raiding and defending forts in 2023
Freshly announced looter-shooter Meet Your Maker lets you tear the post-apocalypse down with extreme prejudice – but you’ll have to build up your own walls first. It combines building futuristic fortresses with raiding them for life-giving genetic material, either solo or in two-player online co-op. Revealed during today’s Behaviour Beyond stream, Meet Your Maker is the next game from the devs behind survival horror Dead By Daylight. Check on how the post-apocalypse is faring in the trailer below.