The coming of age genre has provided me with many of my favourite films: Stand By Me; The Breakfast Club; Dead Poet's Society; Superbad; and more recently The Kings Of Summer. It's a genre video games have rarely tackled, but Life Is Strange has with wonderful results.
Despite the murder mystery, the time-manipulation and alternate realities, Life Is Strange is ultimately about a girl growing up, finding her friends, discovering who she is and fighting her demons. It's this which is at the heart of the finale, Polarized, and not the culmination of a murder investigation.
The final 3 episodes of this unique adventure get reviewed at Player 2
It's not only Russia who will get a monthly subscription option for StarCraft II and Battle.net.
Blizzard announced yesterday in a press release that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty will be available in Brazil for a relatively low retail price and give a six months access to Battle.net (the only way to play StarCraft II's multiplayer mode). Thereafter, players can choose a 30 or 60 day subscription plans where monthly costs have yet to be revealed.
While it was to be expected, I don't like this at all. I am pretty sure US and EU will see paid options as well.
It doesn't really matter to me that much since I will be doing Single player mostly but I still dislike it.
Well as long as they still have the option to buy the more expensive 'unlimited access' version, I don't see this as a problem :)
With the final chapter in Dontnod's teen drama serial coming to a close, Gamesfiends' Zeth takes one last adventure with Max in the episode 5 review.
"If you've invested in the series I don’t think you’ll be disappointed in the conclusion of the story. The execution might stumble in places, but it never falls and Dontnod have managed to bring together a thoughtful and artistic story that has enough substance to be discussed as a game or an analysis of coming-of-age. "
