Gizelle Money writes, "If the catastrophic super storm known as Sandy taught me anything, it's to never go outside when the entire city of New York has just been ravaged. Without power and with nothing to do but to sit idly and twirl my Rubik's Cube during those seemingly endless days (my portable gaming devices utterly drained and useless), I decided one night to escape out into the streets. While many would argue that the likes of Pyramid Head, Big Daddy, Sweet Tooth, Nemesis (and to a lesser extent, Tyrant), or even the entire cast of Thrill Kill, would make for some unfortunate video game characters to run into during a city wide blackout, what I envisioned on those deserted streets was much, much worse."

