GAMES GOING BACK TO THE FUTURE
Adaptations of 80s action flicks are on way
I WOKE up one night to the sound of someone ■ breaking in to my house.
I quickly reached for my phone. My wife grabbed it away and whispered “Don’t do that, he’ll hear you! Take your baseball bat, go downstairs and chase him out!”
I reluctantly took my bat and crept down the ■ stairs. I tiptoed into the kitchen.
Nobody there.
Slowly, I made my way into the living room. Nobody there.
Getting really nervous, I crept into the dining ■ room. Nobody there.
There was one room left, the toilet. I silently approached, gripping my bat, and flung open the door!
Nobody there.
“Where could he be
■ hiding?” I wondered.
Then I remembered...
I don’t have a wife.
MY BUDDY sidled up next to me at the club ● and said: “Hate to be the one to break this to you, but I just saw some dude put his arms around your girl three times.”
I laughed and told him I didn’t believe him because nobody’s got arms that long.
MY WIFE yelled at me this morning because ■ the fridge was full of stir fries.
Apparently I was sleep wokking again.
AS THE success of Stranger Things fuels interest in all things 80s-related, we’re pleased to see a number of franchises from the era lined up for video games.
Kickstarting our 80s revival is the upcoming shooter RoboCop: Rogue City.
It’s the first game in the RoboCop series since the terribly disappointing 2003 outing.
Better still, Peter Weller is returning to voice the titular half-man, half-machine enforcer.
The developer behind it all is Teyon, the same studio that recently made Terminator: Resistance, which received middling reviews but plenty of positive word-ofmouth from fans.
Dead or alive, we’ll be up for giving the game a spin when it drops in June 2023.
Another new title recently announced by Nacon involves an open-world survival game based on the Ter
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minator franchise.
Although, because the game is still in very early development and due to be released “in the distant future”, not much else is known about the Terminator Survival Project.
Survival
That said, a survival game set post-Judgment Day with early era terminators hunting you down does indeed have promise.
Next up we have Aliens, a new singleplayer title announced last month by
Survios — a studio with a history of developing VR games like The Walking Dead Onslaught.
According to Survios, the game is being developed as an “intense single-player action horror game set in the iconic Alien universe”.
On a slightly less serious note, Illfonic are getting in on the action by making yet another fun-filled 4v1 multiplayer game, this time based on Ghostbusters.
Players will either assume the role of four proton-pack-wielding Ghostbusters or the maniacal ghost haunting unique locations across New York.
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed isn’t even that far away, with consoles and PC versions available at some point after October.
Publisher Bethesda has also promised an Indiana Jones game with a “wholly original, stand-alone tale set at the height of [his] career.”