Say what you’d like to, but gaming has become a big pile of clichés: World War II, Alien Invasions, Zombies, Post-Apocalyptic, Fantasy Worlds, etc. These clichés dominate our gaming worlds and sometimes take themselves way too seriously about it.
Well, what would happen if you combined all of these gaming clichés into one game, threw in a bunch of guns and jetpacks, and featured a radically subpar hero that is as much a cliché himself as the environments? You’d get One Epic Game, and Grip Games has performed this unthinkable feat and slammed the game on the PSP Mini service for 3.99 USD/ 2.99 EUR while they were at it too.
Mario writes: Released on august 2nd of 2011 (U.S.A) and developed by Grip Games we have One Epic Game, no.. that’s his name really! With a very good dose of humour, parodies of both games and movies the game offer a lot playability for those looking for a game they can pick and play on the go.
Triverse writes, "Hmm, what are some of the biggest cliches in gaming going today? Alien invasions? World War II? Zombies? Yeah, those are a start and the basis of One Epic Game by Grip Games. OEG is a runner game, there we said it early so anyone not into those types of games can stop reading right now."
Rather than attempt to shackle the simple, arcade action with a boorish plot about a brave soldier saving the Earth, One Epic Game (OEG) instead pokes fun at all the biggest and (crucially) the most overdone genres and settings in gaming. So you’ll be leading main character Alpha Dog (even his name is a jibe) through a zombie outbreak, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, World War 2, an alien invasion and a fantasy world.
The funny thing is there’s actually very little in the way of plot, but that’s kind of the point. It makes a statement about the often scattered and pointless nature of action game plot-lines, and things just happen. There’s usually a self-aware and hilarious reason given, but it’s no more believable than ‘we just wanted a change of scenery’, and it’s kind of not supposed to be. It’s hard to explain; it needs to be experienced.
