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First-Person Sleeper: Dreamkiller Trailer

By Jim Rossignol on August 18th, 2009.


This is an interesting trailer for Dreamkiller, if you’re interested in poorly imagined juxtapositions of media. It goes a bit spooky bed-time story to start off with, setting up a splendid atmosphere of psych-horror and then: Painkiller-esque ultra-death. According to the brief “Gamers will take on the role of Alice Drake, a psychologist with the extraordinary ability to enter the minds of her patients and combat the ravenous foes haunting their dreams. Utilizing a host of fantastic weapons and her own special abilities, Alice confronts our common demons only to discover an even deeper menace reigns within.” And that means dreams of miniguns, dreams of bulbous-headed baby monsters being fragged into the beyond, dreams of baddies going boom.

Actually I used to have FPS dreams when I was playing Quake III regularly, but these days I seem to have more RPG and RTS dreams. That means something, but I just don’t know what.
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Mind If I Come In: Dreamkiller

By John Walker on June 30th, 2009.

Seems very familiar.

Yesterday saw the rather subdued announcement of a new game from Painkiller: Overdose developers Mindware Studios, a “mega-bloodbath” called Dreamkiller. Subdued since the game tantalisingly teased as a cross between the brainless shooty nonsense of Painkiller and cerebral entertainment of Psychonauts is mentioned on neither the developer nor the publisher‘s websites. Which seems an odd tactic. Anyway, more details below.

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