The second colossus hunting adventure in as many weeks arrives on the PlayStation Store, although the majestic colossi have been replaced with hideous ogres. From the team at Iron Galaxy, mostly known for their port work and post-launch content for Killer Instinct, comes Extinction, a fast-paced action title that has you defend the human race from a marauding army of giant monsters.
The Red Capes Are Coming
There?s a real sense of thought put into Extinction‘s story, which tells the tried-and-true formula of ancient warriors with superhuman abilities defending a collapsing civilization. I was immediately pulled in and started to ask questions about the nature of the world and all the lore that was behind it, but it went downhill almost immediately. As soon as you start the game playing the character of Avil, you?re just tasked to go from city to city to protect the empire of some king. There are a few plot twists and revelations later on in the campaign, which consists of twenty-eight short missions, but all the lore and the world-building of the opening scenes is thrown to the side, and there?s a certain reluctance from the main character to divulge any interesting information about his past for a large portion of the game. I was left confused by this decision that took rich world-building and substituted it for meaningless dialogue that belongs in the PlayStation 2 era. Thankfully, in this case, most of the story is told through quick dialogue segments before the...