It's October and that means the screw would wants to jump into the scary stuff! First up is a recently released early access game on Steam called Horrors of Space. The game puts you and three other friends on a space ship trying to escape, running from a terrible monster with really heavy boots. Things Alien Isolation with friends.
Crytek announced a brand new title this year at E3, being Hunt: Horrors of the Gilded Age, a four-player co-op action shooter where you defend the 1800's against hordes of evil, and showed off Homefront: Revolution, a four-player open world shooter sequel to the middling Homefront. With two co-op heavy games in development over there, it must be nothing but smiles all around, right?
How to make your co-op zombie shooter unique in an ocean of co-op zombie shooters:
Today, we dip our toes back into the pool of cooperative tabletop board games. We've previously delved into the rich Lovecraft universe with an article covering Elder Sign. Moving beyond the fast paced, dice rolling puzzle aspects of that game, we come to the Great Old One of Cthulhu games, Fantasy Flight's colossal epic, Arkham Horror.
Mars. That red planet that floats around with stone faces in the sand, secret alien cities beneath the surface, and a curious little rover scooping up bits of soil. Also, Ironward Game's upcoming tactical survival game takes place there! The studio is currently hard at work on The Red Solstice, a co-op game that supports up to eight players who must work together in order to survive the harsh Martian climate.
Do you enjoy games that exist simply to test your bladder's ability to hold urine? White Noise Online takes a page from the Slender book of game design and drops you and some friends in a dark, spooky woods with the simple goal of collecting a bunch of tape recorders. Don't worry, though, because you've all got flashlights! Flashlights that do little more than attract the scary thing that keeps appearing just outside of your field of vision.
It's classic gaming time! GOG.com has just released System Shock 2, the spiritual predecessor to BioShock and one of the first games that made everybody stand up and nod approvingly at Ken Levine. Set in a dark cyberpunk world, System Shock 2 combines first person shooting and survivor horror elements with an intricate character customization system, giving players an enormous amount of freedom to tinker with skills like hacking, psionic powers, and good old fashion gun shooting.
We can’t seem to get enough of Resident Evil 6 right now, especially after our recent, hands-on E3 impressions with its co-op. Two new gameplay videos of heroes Leon Kennedy, Jake, and Sherry have caught our eye, and thus we must share them with all of you.
Every once and a while we get a nice surprise announcement. Today that comes from this GamesRadar preview of Resident Evil 5. So what's the surprise? How about the fact that a franchise that has been traditionally single player and about lone survival will add full featured cooperative play! Yup - drop-in/drop-out support, full integration of the 2nd character into the story, and all playable online with the AI taking over if your buddy runs away from the game in terror.
