Close Range

This game looks hilarious. I've always wanted to shoot a horse in the face with a shotty. Throw in some baby seals, a White elephant and a 100 cats and the game will be mine. *edit: If it was a real retail product. Fail.

What, no babies?

Nice try, Alex you sneaky bastard.

Still - the shot of the ostrich made me chuckle worrying amounts.

What an amazing game. I loved how the middle part subtly makes a comment about Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror. When I shot that horse in the head, it wasn't a horse, or a head, really... it was American imperialism.

Well, where the game does have some interesting things to say about corporate espionage in a post-bailout economy, I think J. T.'s struggles with his personal demons (and hints at drug problems) were a tad undersold. Rescuing his brother certainly helped bring him back to earth, but I think they should have emphasized his melancholy and malaise a little more in the early chapters.

Not enough racism.

The interesting thing (to me) is that there really would be a market for a realistic close range gunshot (or general wound) simulator. A variety of targets and weapons, sophisticated damage/deformation/blood and tissue splatter simulation, etc. Not a huge market, but I'm sure a sizeable number of the deranged and the curious would buy (or pirate) it. Something like this probably exists for crime labs.

I had a similar thought earlier this week when I saw commercials for a program on Discovery about ancient warriors. The commercial shows the narrator (a former Special Forces dude) learning about the weapons and tactics of the warriors, and using the weapons on ballistic gelatin heads & torsos complete with skeletons, organs and blood. I occurred to me that if you could cheaply mass produce those gelatin and skeleton (gel & skel?) busts, you could set up an area and charge people to whack at them with swords, axes and maces. Tell me that wouldn't be fun.

I just want to realistically shoot rare and endangered animals in the face. Humans are just an added bonus.

Fantastic!

If it weren't for 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand being released this year then I'd have a new GOTY.