The third video game is Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon. As with Hellgate and Fallout 3, I’ll start with the video, make a few observations about that video, and then follow up with some thoughts based on preliminary chasing up of material online. The following is a trailer is for the upcoming US…
Fallout 3
On to the second game. The following teaser trailer for Fallout 3 gives us a slow build up to the big reveal of Washington’s major landmarks, the Washington Monument: The trailer makes a fascinating series of moves. The “camera” takes us from the old valve radio playing the 1940s standard (nostalgia), out and up to…
Hellgate: London
Following on from my previous post, the first game up is Hellgate: London. Ray Girvan sent me a link to this YouTube video, drawing my attention to the fantastic view of St. Paul’s, the Houses of Parliament, and Westminster Clock Tower at the end: I’m unclear whether this is an official promotional video for the…
Ruins in Video Games – Introduction
Recently, I’ve been thinking about Chernobyl and the abandoned city of Pripyat in the exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant.1 More on that, in another post. As a result, I’ve started playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. I’ve not progressed far in the game and I’m still stuck in the outskirts of the Zone of…
TAG 2009
Just a heads up that the 31st meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group will be at Durham University, next week, running from Thursday December 17th to Saturday December 19th. This is, admittedly, rather late notice and, if the reader has any interest in this kind of thing at all, then he/ she most likely has…