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The latest entry in the Amnesia series, The Bunker, launches in just a few days, and it’s shaping up to be something special. PCG staff writer Morgan Park praised The Bunker’s open-ended gameplay in an earlier preview, finding it to be “inching toward the player agency and emergent gameplay of a full-blown immersive sim.”
How many Aliens licensed games have there been at this point? Enough for us to collectively forget that Aliens: Dark Descent was in development, certainly. Or at least we had until the first gameplay footage arrived this morning via IGN, along with a June 30 release date, which we watched and murmured a collective “that looks quite cheapest Dark And Darker Gold decent, actually”.
