Resist or Serve

Still in a writing slump. Haven't resorted to the so-called means of guerilla writing due to bouts of procastination. Creativity levels are not at peak yet. But something else was prodding me enough to go about soon after obtaining my long-waited monthly fix of NewType USA. The conscience prodding came about while sticking around with AEGIS people on the recent montly open meet they had. March ender's meeting and rounds of stories are a bit lean in some respects but one incident I've heard got me good since it was a bit synonymous with my current situation. That and some new eyecandy to look at with the soon-to-acquire new issue of NewType USA.

Onto the reason behind the title of this entry. Just recently acquired 3 new games for the PS2 last Saturday. One of the three games needs to be replaced since it doesn't seem to run. Defective game in question was Seven Samurai 20XX. The other two games that work is X-Files: Resist or Serve (XF:ROS) and The Suffering. XF:ROS is regarded by some game players as a Resident Evil or Silent Hill clone but the draw of the game is in a number of little details that would appeal to X-Files fans.

Storyline for it starts off as innocuous at first, Mulder and Scully investigate a number of murders in Red Falls, Colorado. Scully and Mulder were discussing about the possible merits of witchcraft in the case given what scant info they have about the possible perpetrators, a pair of teenaged girls. The rest of the "episode" proceeds with the discovery of zombiefied townsfolk, Mulder's psychic visions and subsequently the discovery of the so-called "black oil" in the area. The game actually comprises of 3 "episodes" with 2 acts per episode. You can play as either Mulder or Scully and see how the story handles on parallel tracks.

All the voices in the games are done by the cast of the tv show as well. Lone Gunmen (Byers, Langley, Frohike) are present as well as Cigarette-Smoking Man, Alex Krycek, Assistant Director Skinner and Marita Covarrubias to lend their presence and voice in the game. The story covered in these 3 "episodes" are more or less estimated to be within the timeline of around Season 6 on upwards given the obvious references of the alien ship fragments discovered in that season, mention of the black oil as early shown in Season 4. The TV series may be over but the game itself has enough immersion for one to go through it again.

"People rising from the dead and taking cheap shots from behind is just bullshit." - Mulder (Cutscene in XF:ROS)