Gargoyle-grappling action game Extinction is out now, offering large cities infested with muscular orc-a-likes and colossal ogres. It’s a bit like Attack on Titan, except the biologically exposed anime giants are replaced by armour-wearing big boys with sharp teeth and pointy ears. There’s a story campaign about saving civilians and beating back the Ravenii, as the baddies are called, alongside an “extinction mode” in which…
Extinction
3 years ago
Extinction is what happens when you take the thrilling, lightly traumatising anime Attack on Titan and remove the unsettling weirdness of its giant naked men, in favour of genero-ogres wearing tasteful loincloths. That's a bit of a shame, but the game they're starring in has me a mite more interested than the Dynasty Warriors re-skin that was the official tie-in Titan game. It's mostly down…
Giant-slaying action-RPG Extinction stomps out on April 10th
Extinction is Iron Galaxy's action-RPG that asks "what would it look like if a race of giant alien ogres invaded the earth, and the only thing that could stop them was a bloke with a flaming sword and a grappling whip?" The answer: pretty darn cool.I won't get to do any giant-slaying myself until the game comes out on April 10th, so for the time…
A desperate human race pushed to the brink of extinction. Enormous man-eating giants loom just outside the massive walls of the last surviving cities, and their only weakness is decapitation, or at least a sharp blade across the nape of their neck. Such death-blows can only be delivered by high-flying, acrobatic, sword-wielding warriors - our species' last line of defence.No, it's not Attack On Titan.…