StrategyInformer: Swarm Preview

Some people knock videogames for taking a cavalier attitude to death. Many games see us gamers mowing down enemy after enemy remorselessly and with no emotion, and that frightens some people – and those same people would be downright terrified by the death-fest that is the upcoming downloadable title Swarm from Hothead games.

Hothead are the same guys behind DeathSpank and the Penny Arcade games, but for them this is in many ways a first foray outside of the RPG genre. It’s more of an action-puzzler, giving you fifty blue-skinned creatures that make up the titular swarm and asking you to escort them through death-filled levels of traps, dangerous jumps and puzzles.