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Matching the iffy presentation is some similarly dodgy acting, though given that each and every character is a hollow stereotype you won’t remember for long, they can’t really be blamed for failing to do much with it – or the oft-risible dialogue. Even the bit-rate of the video footage itself is bafflingly low, as is most painfully apparent in the low-res menu video (which, worse still, is set to an awkwardly looped music track). Though the cinematography isn’t terrible, the game overall lacks visual polish and its reliance on wonky VFX elements only make the budgetary constraints more obvious. The first thing you’ll probably notice about the game is the lacking production quality compared to prior Wales games. We focus on one of the six teams, led by over-the-hill actor Nick (James Palmer) who reluctantly co-operates with his colourful squad of hopefuls.

This latest game is a little different, though one of the teams is comprised of bloodthirsty death row inmates, and while previous games allowed imperiled players to “tap out” to exit the contest with their life in tact, this time it’s a true fight to the death with no escapes. The task? Drop onto a remote island in small teams and kill everyone else until you’re the last one standing.

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The latter proved to be a competent attempt at a choose-your-own-adventure heist flick, but the publisher’s latest outing feels like a cynical regression to the FMV genre’s chintzy heyday.īloodshore plays out as a listless throwback to lazy earlier stabs at mixed-media gaming, yet perhaps most aptly resembles one of the many straight-to-video knock-offs of The Running Man or Battle Royale – though it’ll also be unavoidably compared to Squid Game (despite actually being very different).īloodshore takes place in a dystopian near-future where the widening class divide has prompted a shady outfit called The Corporation to launch a now-hugely successful reality TV show, Kill/Stream, where 50 applicants are selected to compete for a cash prize of £100 million. Wales Interactive’s efforts to revive the FMV game began rather promisingly with the likes of The Bunker and especially Late Shift.

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