GG:
“What is a friend?” asks Decay: The Mare. When I started the game and saw this question, which is made explicit in its second and third episode, I was really excited and intrigued by every connotation that it could entail. Particularly, after playing the first episode, I started wondering about how this game was going to treat friendly characters, about the futility of the word ‘friend’ in videogames and how it may affect our daily lives. I also wondered if the game was going to be a study on the nature of friendship or its fickleness. It surprisingly does, more or less. Decay: The Mare is better seen as a piece about human drives, both friendly and aggressive, than as a terrifying and butt-tightening experience. It advertises itself as a horror-based game, when it is not. In fact, everything that is supposed to be horror-y just fails miserably.
Gareth B writes: "The best kind of horror is the horror you don’t see, hear, or even quite understand.
Stephen Spielberg kept the shark hidden until the end of Jaws, and when you saw what it really was, a rubber prop, the fear suddenly subsided. The most recent Alien movies have told us what the aliens are, what they like to eat, their thoughts on fashion, and no doubt their favourite music. That in turn has seen them become a lot less scary.
Decay - The Mare opens up lots of questions before you even load up the game, but does it keep the fear factor alive? Or is it as scary as Mr Bobby on a Saturday night in the 1990s?"
Neil writes "Friday the 13th has got a lot to answer for. First we had confirmation that the super scary The Evil Within 2 was here, and now we're being notified that it's time to get stuck in an endless nightmare. Yep, Decay - The Mare is available right now."
Pixelgate.co.uk writes:
''The Steam week long days are here and there’s a few gems to be had.
TimeShift – £2.49
imeShift flew under the radars of many people since its 2007 release. It may not look all that great, but the gameplay mechanics are still fresh.''
It's been a while since I've played Time Shift. Guess I need to find my copy for 360.
Gotta love Steam sales, though the consoles are starting to push some interesting deals out too! Still, Steam has been doing it well for so long.
