Performing jumps while climbing will take a large cut out of your stamina bar, rendering it a calculated necessity rather than the shortcut such a maneuver offers in games like Uncharted or Assassin’s Creed. Once your stamina bar empties out, you can continue running or climbing a little further by mashing the trigger, but doing so will quickly reduce the maximum size of your stamina bar. Whenever you show off your acrobatic side it costs stamina, which will regenerate every time you take a breather on safe ground. Stamina is equally important, as it not only allows you to run and sprint, but also redefines how we look at climbing in games. Health doesn’t regenerate, and must be replenished with various items scarred across the city.

Objectives offer a linear path, which can often be deviated from in favor of risky exploration. Thus starts a chain of events that sees you running, walking, coughing, climbing, slashing, and shooting your way all over Haventon to find the last remaining safe camps where your family might be hiding.įor the most part, I Am Alive delivers on its promise to bring to life a true survivalist’s adventure in a world gone to hell, both in terms of gameplay mechanics and how it conveys an oppressive atmosphere of hopelessness. You encounter a little girl in need of help, and a mysterious voice on the radio by the name of Henry wants you to bring her to safety. It doesn’t take long before you are sidetracked from the quest to find your family. He is a man with a singular purpose, but also a man who hasn’t forgotten what it means to be human. I Am Alive‘s everyman protagonist finds himself at the edge of Haventon, his hometown, visibly scarred from his survivalist trek to reach his wife and daughter, whom he hasn’t heard from since The Event. What is left of urban civilization is a bleak, harsh environment where a tribal gang culture has emerged from the ashes, and a dog-eat-dog mentality prevails above all others. Cities across America lie in ruins, all color removed from the world by layers of ash and dust, and those who were able to flee during the chaos have done so. Earthquakes and volcanic ash hint at a natural disaster, but nobody is left to explain what caused it. It’s been roughly a year since “The Event,” a massive catastrophe that has destroyed civilization. I Am Alive (Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network) It’s also yet another ambitious title in a recent string of games that tries to make us rethink what to expect from studios in the downloadable space. Years in the making at different studios, Ubisoft’s I Am Alive brings the Xbox Live Arcade “House Party” to a close with a post-apocalyptic bang.Ī story of survival, it’s full of ideas and twists on the action-adventure conventions we’ve grown used to.

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