While we wait for the planet’s supposed end of days in 2012, we prep you by looking at a few ways the world ends in videogames — then we ask survival experts how to beat the odds in real life.
Climbing. Stockpiling. Not thinking too much about the future. If any of these activities strike your fancy, then Ubisoft's upcoming XBLA adventure-actioner I Am Alive may be the game you've been waiting your whole life for — or so says the downloadable title's latest trailer, labeled "Survivor."
In the parched sands of New Vegas, the Sierra Madre casino beckons like a glistening oasis. And you’re the unlucky chump who falls for the radio signal coaxing all comers to seek its untold fortunes. Cue a lengthy, level cap–raising (by five!) tale of greed, betrayal, and horror.
Are you a people-pleaser? Then god help you in the wilds of Fallout: New Vegas, where military types (NCR) are clashing with ruthless slavers (Caesar’s Legion), who are at odds with psychotic bands of chem-addicted Fiends. You can please some of the many conflicting factions some of the time, but there’s no way in hell you can ever please all of them all of the time.
Gaming’s depictions of what a world-ending nuclear party feels like have been deceptively easy. Fallout 3 taught us that atomic annihilation is an excuse to sightsee America’s national landmarks; in Gears of War, humanity’s defense against extinction is a gang of linebackers.
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