What, you don’t like my Bond joke?
Ukrainian developer Action Forms and Publishers 1c Company (Russia) and 505 Games (European) have come together to tell us that they’re tired of the same old games. That have been coming out for this generation of gamers. They’re tired of the over-hype and need to focus on unimportant things like tweaking an achievement system or putting in a zombie nazi mode to justify a $60 price tag. Hell, they’re even tired of the $60 price tag and went just over 1/2 that, at $40.
Interestingly, they also incorporated Nvidia’s newly acquired PhysX technology, putting Cryostasis on a short list of games taking advantage of the new technology. Action Forms was able to give a new experience to players through a game that focused almost exclusively on storytelling and creating an atmosphere in which you really experience what the character experienced. An old nuclear icebreaker who’s hit an iceberg (ironic, isn’t it) is the stage, and you are Alexander Nesterov, charged with discovering what went wrong. This is a journey that is, like most journeys, flawed yet worth taking. There are few games recently that can say they really did something new or different. Cryostasis is one of them.
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