A blast from the past from a dog and a rabbit, a psychotic rabbit that would enjoy seeing pop stars mauled by wolves!
The Game is unusually short, but considering that I had to wait 12 years for a new game to come out and now I only have to wait a month for another episode, I don’t really mind.
For those of you who have grown up with Counter Strike under the pillow, Culture shock is an old fashion adventure game. This means you will have to sit in your chair and actually listen to a lot of talk. A warning for the new gamer: Culture shock respects a recipe created and used when quests were quests and action was action and genres did not hump each other in hopes of creating an ultimate retard game. It’s the first episode in a series of 6, a long anticipated series by those who have the age in gaming, and a series that proves that adventure is still alive as a gaming genre.
In Sam and Max Hit the Road the happy duo had to chase down Big Foot and the Giraffe Woman. Culture Shock stays true to the crazy, crazy world and we face former child actor called Brady Culture that wants to hypnotize the planet in to adoration by use of eye work out tapes with subliminal messages. He is helped by 3 white Gary Colemans with more personality problems that the one in real life. All the characters in the game add spice to the mix: a clerk that believes that every one is out to get them and that pepperoni and aliens are making video tape conspiracies, a small gangster rat (a real rat mind you) that hold phones ransom and a tattoo artist/ psychoanalyst. Trust me when I say that is a regular zoo and that I have never ever seen so much ironies and hints so absurdly wrapped into a game dialog.
If you’ve practiced a little with Day of the Tentacle or Sam and max Hit the road, Culture shock will be a piece of cake. Anyone that figured out that a monkey can be used as a crank will easily survive in the nihilist duo’s world.
IF you’re worried that the 3d engine will affect the game play don’t worry. They have done an excellent job of turning the old 2d world into 3d. If you truly surprise the sole of the game and take it into 3d your job is done. They have done it here perfectly. My hat is off to Telltale games that have truly given us a blast from the past. You know, that old past that everyone mentions on forums and/or bogs. My suggestion: play the game. If your and old gamer this game will tickle your funny bone like no other; if you’re a new gamer you need some old school training. If you do not like this game, then you are just one out of billion Couter-streker-ists that call themselves gamers.