We dissect the promising XBLA title.
There's one key trick up Deadlight's tattered sleeve: this apocalyptic 2D platformer doesn't look like a 2D game, and it certainly doesn't skimp on the realism. Most 2D games, wary of their dissimilarity to real and slightly more protruding life, play up the fanciful. Limbo casts realistic physics in stripped-down silhouettes, and Shadow Complex spins a heightened fantasy of underground bases and kickass agents. Deadlight combines the conspiracy and supernatural, mixing in more than a little of Fallout 3's ravaged America for good measure.
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There's one key trick up Deadlight's tattered sleeve: this apocalyptic 2D platformer doesn't look like a 2D game, and it certainly doesn't skimp on the realism. Most 2D games, wary of their dissimilarity to real and slightly more protruding life, play up the fanciful. Limbo casts realistic physics in stripped-down silhouettes, and Shadow Complex spins a heightened fantasy of underground bases and kickass agents. Deadlight combines the conspiracy and supernatural, mixing in more than a little of Fallout 3's ravaged America for good measure.
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