In seven days, developer Wolfire Games constructed a first-person shooter more interesting than most of the competition. How? By restoring the “power” in firepower.
Receiver’s design bills itself as an exploration of “gun handling mechanics, randomized levels, and unordered storytelling.” Armed with but a pistol and a tape player, you wander the spartan corporate corridors and passageways of a mysterious complex.
Here’s where Receiver stands out: Its room design and layout changes every time a new game begins. The normally one-dimensional pistol transforms into a lesson in micromanagement, as every part of actually operating a firearm comes into play before pulling the trigger. You’ll need to load bullets in the pistol’s clip, insert the clip, then cock the hammer — all actions performed automatically (sometimes with inhuman speed) in other games, but a completely manual affair in Receiver.
This piece is out for vengeance. R.I.P. Grandson Gun.
The 7 Day FPS game jam kicked off last Saturday. With five days left in the jam, several interesting projects are already developing.
Liam Lambert, GIZORAMA - "So “Fall”, or “Autumn” as we like to call it in the UK, is almost upon us, or is already showering us with a brilliant cascade of crispy brownness depending on where you live or what particular calendar you subscribe to. For videogames this means we’re about to encounter a similar cascade of brownness in the form of big budget AAA releases, most of which happen to be games wherein you blow stuff up, shoot guys, and say things like “The LZ is hot”. Destiny has ushered in this year’s Fall of Titan shooters (which doesn’t include Titanfall), and we’re soon to be graced by yet another Call of Duty game in the form of COD 11: Are They Even Trying to Name These Things Anymore, a game with notably fewer market competitors this year, what with the absence of the now delayed Battlefield Hardline: You’d Better Believe This Will Be Controversial."
