Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Dreams become nightmares in this Dreamkiller teaser]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/19/dreams-become-nightmares-in-this-dreamkiller-teaser/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/19/dreams-become-nightmares-in-this-dreamkiller-teaser/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/19/dreams-become-nightmares-in-this-dreamkiller-teaser/#comments"With great power comes great responsibility," Luke Skywalker once said. Wait, that's not right. Was it Hulk Hogan? Well, it doesn't matter who said it, just know it's the problem plaguing hero Alice Drake in Mindware Studios' upcoming Dreamkiller. See, she can enter the Dreamworld, but instead of having an army of robotic vampires or fighting Freddy Krueger in a church, she's forced to wield big guns and torch creepy dolls. Which one is better? We'll let you be the judge.

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click to PROBE THE INSIDIOUS DEPTHS OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS (ie: peep the gallery)
What is Dreamkiller? It's like Psychonauts and Painkiller had a baby, and that baby has grown into an angry teenager who then scratched the design doc for the game on the outside of his notebook. Mindware Studios - the developers behind Painkiller Overdose - are back to "probe the insidious depths of the subconscious" with Dreamkiller for the Xbox 360 and PC platforms, available this fall.

Ever wanted to go "inside the dark and twisted nightmares of tortured souls possessed by unknown forces"? Yeah, us neither ... but that's just what you'll do in the "role of Alice Drake, a psychologist with the extraordinary ability to enter the minds of her patients and combat the ravenous foes haunting their dreams." So, 12 "mega-bloodbath" single-player levels and "numerous multiplayer modes" are what they're offering.

The bad news: that same design doc was already used for some levels in Psychotoxic, where you also play a female protagonist who can enter people's dreams and do battle with their subconscious. Our own Ludwig Kietzmann, in a previous life, wrote, "Setting yourself on fire and then diving into a pool of broken glass is more fun than playing this absolute disaster of a game." So, the good news: it couldn't possibly be any worse than Psychotoxic.

Gallery: Dreamkiller

JoystiqDreamkiller: It's like Psychonauts and Painkiller had a baby originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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