Plus, if a decision ends up causing your demise, you’ll sometimes get gifted a negating rewind, seemingly undermining much of the import your choices should have. Centering the story around livestreaming and dropping a passing reference to Jeffrey Epstein are as truly topical as the script ever gets, yet without these elements it’d be easy to believe the game had been sitting on a shelf for years.īloodshore really falls shortest as an interactive experience, though there are only two options to choose from throughout the game, and they’re really quite dull most of the time. It’s all puddle-deep and old-hat, though. What postures as substance here is pervading social commentary on the perils of fame and reality TV, income inequality, the barbarism of humanity, and our continued sick taste for human suffering as entertainment. Despite the large roster size, it never feels like there’s actually 50 people in the game at all because we see just a handful of them throughout the story, and no matter the promises of “extreme violence,” bombastic death scenes are few and far between. More generous critics might suggest this is all part of a knowing attempt to homage the cornball FMV games of decades past, but that feels like a cop-out given the genuinely fun potential of an interactive live-action battle royale game.Īnd that’s really the focal point naff acting and a laughable script could easily get a pass if Bloodshore were a good time, but ultimately it leaks low effort from every single pore. Matching the iffy presentation is some similarly dodgy acting, though given that each and every character is a hollow stereotype you won’t remember for long, they can’t really be blamed for failing to do much with it – or the oft-risible dialogue. Even the bit-rate of the video footage itself is bafflingly low, as is most painfully apparent in the low-res menu video (which, worse still, is set to an awkwardly looped music track). Though the cinematography isn’t terrible, the game overall lacks visual polish and its reliance on wonky VFX elements only make the budgetary constraints more obvious. The first thing you’ll probably notice about the game is the lacking production quality compared to prior Wales games. We focus on one of the six teams, led by over-the-hill actor Nick (James Palmer) who reluctantly co-operates with his colourful squad of hopefuls. This latest game is a little different, though one of the teams is comprised of bloodthirsty death row inmates, and while previous games allowed imperiled players to “tap out” to exit the contest with their life in tact, this time it’s a true fight to the death with no escapes. The task? Drop onto a remote island in small teams and kill everyone else until you’re the last one standing.
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The latter proved to be a competent attempt at a choose-your-own-adventure heist flick, but the publisher’s latest outing feels like a cynical regression to the FMV genre’s chintzy heyday.īloodshore plays out as a listless throwback to lazy earlier stabs at mixed-media gaming, yet perhaps most aptly resembles one of the many straight-to-video knock-offs of The Running Man or Battle Royale – though it’ll also be unavoidably compared to Squid Game (despite actually being very different).īloodshore takes place in a dystopian near-future where the widening class divide has prompted a shady outfit called The Corporation to launch a now-hugely successful reality TV show, Kill/Stream, where 50 applicants are selected to compete for a cash prize of £100 million. Wales Interactive’s efforts to revive the FMV game began rather promisingly with the likes of The Bunker and especially Late Shift.
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