Is This The Scariest Game Mag Cover Ever?
UK game journo veteran and Gamasutra columnist Jim Rossignol has updated his personal blog with a pretty astounding regional magazine cover - and we thank him for it!
He explains plaintively: "Game magazine cover of the decade? And yes, this is the actual cover of the current version of PC Gamer on sale in Russia and Ukraine." The cover shows an intensely scary communist skull type thing, with the text 'You Are Empty: Straight Outta Kiev', and then some Cyrillic which we understand not, even though Game Developer magazine has a Russian version, yay.
All we do know is that You Are Empty is the name of a Russian developed FPS title, which includes outlandish claims on its official website like "Realistic physics engine and sophisticated AI system... Distinctive and lively characters", haw - whoa, and bizarre zombie nurses, according to the official gallery. We're scared.
Comments
"bizarre zombie nurses"
It's too bad those good looking puppies are sitting on a DEAD nurse :-D
Seriously though, the game looks quite good. I wonder when (and if) we'll see it here in the west.
Posted by: Sokurah | October 28, 2006 8:06 AM
Unfortunatly, the cryptic cyrillic contains no nuclear launch codes. It says:
Straight outta Kiev
Realistic Faces: A Utopian Goal
(literally: Utopian path: Realism from faces)
So, ya, PC Gamer Russia is just as wary of these zombie nurses as you are. I assume the creepy cover is a reference to the fact that attempts at hyper-realism always look like zombies (think Polar Express)
Posted by: Capt_Poco | October 28, 2006 9:10 AM
I don't see how comments like "realistic physics" and "sophisticated AI" are "outlandish."
Perhaps you know a different definition for that word.
Posted by: theCurse | October 28, 2006 2:27 PM
That was kinda arch sarcasm, which comes across really badly over the Internet - I think I was trying to say that those are kinda pedestrian claims that most games would make. There, I've over explained it.
Posted by: simonc | October 28, 2006 2:32 PM
This November, I'm voting for any candidate who promises to outlaw sarcasm on the internet.
Posted by: theCurse | October 28, 2006 8:56 PM
what game is this?
Posted by: matt | May 22, 2007 3:32 PM