This is just lame. This is in NO way at all a game. It is just a procedurally generated world that you walk through. It is boring and uninspired. Perhaps if there was interaction it might have been something worth talking about, but Minecraft already did the procedurally generated pixelated world and did it well. The concept of the music is pretty cool but that is about the only positive I can find. Surely there must be something better to review, hey Gamespot? The article should rather have been about a possible trend in gaming or a future direction games could take, not a review. Make this game a v0.001 alpha to something more like Minecraft or a MMORPG with a world per server with some depth and then you may post a review that does not waste space on an already crowded internet. Back to minecraft for me then
Proteus launches, and I am standing in the ocean, looking at an island in the distance. Everything I can see is constructed out of blocky, Atari-2600-ish pixels. Not knowing my purpose in this world, I slowly tread water... Read Full Review
Proteus is the sort of game best pegged under the "interactive museum" moniker: it is in a first-person perspective, and you are exploring an island, with a look resembling one of those old Atari games, only done with mo... Read Full Review