By Marty Mulrooney
Worms Revolution is the latest instalment of Team17’s popular Worms series of artillery strategy video games. When Alternative Magazine Online previewed the game last month, we noted that “Worms Revolution could mark a pleasing return to form for the series.” AMO has extensively played the PC (Steam)/PlayStation 3 (PSN) versions of the game and the verdict is in. So, does Worms Revolution manage to revolutionise the series and return it to its roots?
Filed under Games
By Marty Mulrooney
The Last Policeman is a science-fiction mystery novel by Ben H. Winters that poses one simple question: What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Published by Quirk Books, the story follows Detective Hank Palace as he tries to solve a potential murder in a pre-apocalyptic United States.
Filed under Books
By Marty Mulrooney
In 2010, Alternative Magazine Online interviewed legendary video game designer (Earthworm Jim, The Neverhood) and graphic novelist (Creature Tech, Ghostopolis) Doug TenNapel. Power Up was also chosen as one of AMO’s best books/graphic novels of 2009, with TenNapel described as: ‘One of the great graphic novelists of our time.’ Therefore, when the ‘Doug TenNapel Sketchbook Archives’ Kickstarter project recently came to our attention, we were understandably quite excited.
Filed under Alternative Musings, Books
By Marty Mulrooney
The Last Express in an award-winning adventure game designed by Jordan Mechner, who is best known as the creator of the Prince of Persia franchise. Originally released on PC in 1997, the game is now being made available on iOS devices for the very first time thanks to DotEmu, a Paris-based developer and publisher that specialises in modern releases of retro titles. In The Last Express, the player takes control of American doctor and fugitive from the law Robert Cath, who boards the Orient Express after receiving an urgent telegram from his best friend Tyler Whitney. When he finds Tyler dead in his compartment, Cath finds himself embroiled in a plot equal parts conspiracy, politics, romance and murder.
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