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Arizona Sunshine 2 picks up almost straight after the end of the first VR zombie shooter with our wisecracking but unnamed protagonist waking up to see a military chopper crashing nearby, thus setting off a quest to find Patient Zero and rather more importantly, find anyone else who may be alive. Between you and those objectives? Well, plenty of zombies to blast into oblivion, of course!
You won’t be going alone on this quest, as within a few minutes of starting the game you meet Buddy, your AI companion dog for the game. He is quite the bestest boy ever, chasing after zombies (or Freds as they are known in game), collecting keys for you and generally being adorable. For an AI companion he’s quite smart and automatically attacks the Freds nearest to you, though you can command him yourself to go rip the throat out of a specific Fred. He by far the most useful weapon you have, but that’s not to say the rest of the guns are rubbish.
From pistols to shotguns, miniguns to uzis, all the weapons handle exceptionally well and you can pull off headshots from quite a distance. Reloading the weapons is fiddly at first – you have to eject the magazine, grab a new one with your other hand, shove it in the gun, then finalise the loading with yet another action. It’s bit like playing Twister with just your fingers in the Sense controllers as you have to press and hold multiple buttons all at once. I frequently dropped the gun mid-reload at the beginning of the game, but you do eventually get the hang of it.
Thankfully you’ve got time to learn. The Freds themselves are generally slow moving, although your do get ’28 Days Later’ running zombies further on in the game, and the usual armoured and tank sized zombies who take multiple hits. There’s a good amount of dismemberment so you can shoot of legs or arms if you want to slow the Freds down, and attacking them with one of the an axe or meat cleaver is especially squelchy. You can also craft land mines, two sorts of grenades and molotovs.
The campaign is quite long for a VR game, clocking in at around 12 hours and taking you through various locations. The protagonist does that thing that only characters in single player video games do thoughout: talking to himself. Thankfully the script is quite dry and he’s not constantly saying things like “Hmm, maybe I should check that area” and spends more of his time reminiscing where dog testicles go after pooches are neutered, or making jokes about 1980s classic movie Weird Science. Just for once I didn’t hate a character chatting to himself all the time.
The game also manages to make you feel like you’re the only one alive after a zombie apocalypse, mostly during the quieter moments when you find yourself rummaging through empty
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From developer and publisher Vertigo Games, Arizona Sunshine 2 is a VR zombie survival first-person shooter that puts you back in the shoes (and head) of the dark-humoured and sarcastic survivor introduced in the 2016 original game. Continuing to survive alone in the heat of the Arizona desert, the unnamed hero witnesses a helicopter crash. Desperate for human contact he strikes out to find the landing site only to discover a different sort of companion… Whether you’re an old hand at blasting brains, or you’re taking on the zombie hordes for the first time, here’s what you need to know about Arizona Sunshine 2.
Even as we enter the weekend today, December 23, interesting tidbits from the world of artificial intelligence keep coming in. In a shocking development, Infosys has lost a deal worth $1.5 billion with an undisclosed AI firm. The announcement came just days after Infosys Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Nilanjan Roy's resignation. In other news, a group of teachers worked with Yamaha to create an AI-assisted piano that tracks the notes of the music and augments the performance by adding whatever keys are needed but not pressed. And, Arizona creates its own deepfakes to prepare for polls. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.
We review Rauha, an engine-building card game published by Hachette. In Rauha, you are a shaman trying to score the most victory points.
Humans are horrible. You don’t need an allegory about the environment filled with blue aliens to tell you that. However, the joy of James Cameron’s Avatar isn’t in its humans, or the azure Na’vi, it’s in the vibrant, living world of Pandora. From the instant you start Frontiers of Pandora, it’s clear that Ubisoft has done an incredible job bringing this world to life, and while you bathe in the neon glow of its incredible wildlife, you’ll discover a people whose lives and culture you’ll want to protect.
NASA never fails to amaze with its groundbreaking projects. Currently, NASA scientists and Engineers are gearing up for an extraordinary NASA experiment named GUSTO (Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory) in Antarctica. According to NASA, this innovative project involves a balloon-borne telescope set to launch "no earlier than December 21” as per NASA. Yes, you read that right, it is a balloon-borne telescope. While it will be no match for the James Webb Space Telescope, It will still be a big cog in the gargantuan NASA machine consisting of land, air and space telescopes. It will launch from the Ross Ice Shelf, near the U.S. National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station research base.
It’s been a great week in the gaming world; we kicked off with the trailer for GTA VI, and rounded things off with a whole bunch of announcements and trailers from this year’s Game Awards!
It’s that time of the week where we ruminate on how we’ve spent our time, and wonder whether it was a useful way to spend our lives. Of course, the video game portion of it will always be unassailable, and I’ve been leaping, running and flying my way through the rather excellent Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. I also chilled out for a while with Abzu, before definitely not chilling out with the action-packed Asgard’s Wrath 2.
Developer INTERIOR/NIGHT has announced that its narrative adventure game As Dusk Falls is coming to PS4 and PS5 on March 7. The PlayStation release of the game was announced with a new trailer during The Game Awards 2023, which you can check out below.
As Dusk Falls, the narrative adventure game about two families linked together by a burglary gone wrong, hit Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC in July of last year. More than a year later, developer Interior/Night is bringing the game to PlayStation, but you'll have to wait just a bit longer to play it.
Xbox console exclusive As Dusk Falls is coming to PlayStation in March.
Thanks to our friends at Vertigo Games, we have an exciting competition to give away a Meta Quest 3 and an Arizona Sunshine 2 bundle that includes a copy of the game in addition to a bunch of merch. If you've been waiting to really sink your teeth into gaming in virtual reality, here's your chance!