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Adventure
| Also for: | PS4 | ||
| Viewed: | 3D Third-person, over the shoulder | Genre: | Adventure |
| Media: | Blu-Ray | Arcade origin: | No |
| Developer: | Compulsion Games | Soft. Co.: | Gearbox |
| Publishers: | Gearbox
(GB/GB) |
Released: | 10 Aug 2018
(GB) |
| Ratings: | PEGI 18+ | ||
| No Accessories: | No accessories | ||
Summary
Hold on to your headgear, things are about to get weird. We Happy Few's alternate-history 1960s England is a dark and trippy place. The well-to-do chuck 'joy' pills down their necks to maintain an ordered society, while the not-so-well-off 'downers' are forced to live in squalid conditions, eeking out a dank existence and teetering on the edge of madness.
You play as Arthur, a clerk who's gone off his pills and started seeing terrible glimpses of the world beneath the drug-fuelled haze he's been living in. Cast out among the downers, you must fight and craft to survive and maybe, just maybe, make your way to a better place. Gameplay is a mix of stealth, combat and crafting, but you'd better keep your eye on your survival meters because death is never far away.
This is a game that wears its influences on its sleeve, and it's a potent mix - BioShock, V for Vendetta, The Prisoner, Dishonored, Minecraft, STALKER, Brazil and 1984 all jump out. They make for a bleak, garish and downright creepy setting that really steals the show.
With different ways to attack your objectives and the aforementioned crafting elements, there are a lot of different ways to attack We Happy Few. Make no mistake, though, each and every one of them will lead you down a dark and twisted path.
You play as Arthur, a clerk who's gone off his pills and started seeing terrible glimpses of the world beneath the drug-fuelled haze he's been living in. Cast out among the downers, you must fight and craft to survive and maybe, just maybe, make your way to a better place. Gameplay is a mix of stealth, combat and crafting, but you'd better keep your eye on your survival meters because death is never far away.
This is a game that wears its influences on its sleeve, and it's a potent mix - BioShock, V for Vendetta, The Prisoner, Dishonored, Minecraft, STALKER, Brazil and 1984 all jump out. They make for a bleak, garish and downright creepy setting that really steals the show.
With different ways to attack your objectives and the aforementioned crafting elements, there are a lot of different ways to attack We Happy Few. Make no mistake, though, each and every one of them will lead you down a dark and twisted path.