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ORION: Prelude, Guardians of Orion (Phase 2)

Dec 7, 2015
Premature Evaluation: Guardians of Orion
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Marsh Davies)

Though you wouldn t necessarily expect realism from a game in which jetpacking clone soldiers do battle with a tag-team of robots and dinosaurs, Guardian s big-name lizards are mostly creatures that co-existed at the end of the Cretacious period, rather than a best-of selected from across the dinosaurs 162-million-year stay on Earth. That said, the developers do find their imagination outstripping paleontological fact in the occasional creation of all new dinosaurs: one that resembles a rhino and another that can lasso the player with its tongue. But in some ways, the dinosaur mash-up is a longstanding paleontological tradition/hazard. Fake dinosaurs continue to plague the study, and though those fabricated wholesale are easy enough to identify with modern methods of analysis, it s still sometimes hard to spot those that have been restructured or amended to create new species to further line the pockets of unscrupulous fossil dealers.

Each week Marsh Davies leaps from his dropship into the untamed primordial land of Early Access and unfeelingly obliterates the nascent species he finds. This week he s turning dinosaurs to chum in Guardians of Orion, a co-op wave-survival shooter. It s also a top-down game – which you wouldn t necessarily guess from some of the footage used to advertise the game on its Steam Store page. >

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