Video games
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− | + | The Waste Land is an 8-bit, open world, role-playing action adventure title <br> | |
− | + | from indie developer Fledermaus; aka the one-man team that is Mr Michele <br> | |
− | + | Caletti. The fantasy adventure is based around the story described in the T.S. Eliot<br> | |
− | + | poem from which the name of the game has been drawn. (PC, The Waste Land) | |
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− | + | Fable I/II/III | |
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− | + | Lionhead Studios | |
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− | + | Monsters called Hollow Men appear. See: T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men. | |
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− | + | Spec Ops: The Line | |
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− | + | Yager Development/2K Games (2012) | |
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− | + | Fragmented narrative structure, similar themes of violence, rebirth and fragmented experience | |
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− | + | Silent Hill | |
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− | + | Bleh | |
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− | + | Fragmented, the hanged man tarot card reference, bilingual hidden messages, etc. | |
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− | + | Winter Voices | |
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− | + | inner seas | |
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− | + | Themes of loss and fragmentation of memory; death of the fathers and simultaneous emancipation and abandonment of the children. | |
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− | + | Fallout franchise | |
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− | + | Interplay Entertainment | |
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− | + | In Fallout: New Vegas, the quest We Will All Go Together is named for a song by Tom Lehrer, which humorously refers to the total destruction of life through war. The Fallout New Vegas NCR propaganda posters resemble propaganda from WWI and WWII. | |
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− | + | Walking Dead | |
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− | + | Bioshock | |
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− | + | Dishonored | |
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− | + | Shadowrun Returns | |
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− | + | Harebrained Schemes (2013) | |
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− | + | Post-war societal upheaval, fragmented world and experience, lost memories, a history that haunts the present. | |
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