By Nick Pino
In a convention about wars past, present and future, sports games and fantasy worlds set far, far away from our own, one game stood out to me with its strong grounding in reality and even stronger message of anti-bullying.
It’s called Concrete Genie and while it didn’t get a trailer during Sony’s keynote, it’s something I couldn’t get enough of at the show. So how exactly did a game about a teenager with an oversized paint brush enthrall me?
While soldiers are important to keeping the world safe and secure, and sporting events keep me entertained after long days and nights at the office, they’re not the best representation of my life. I’ve never fought on a battlefield, and sports, well, those aren’t my forte.
But being a creative kid – the kind who liked to write, create and play and get picked on after and during school – that’s who I was and in many ways still am.
For people like me, Concrete Genie is that little window into the past – to help jog your memory for what it was like to be fun and creative in a world that seemed scary and glum. The enemies aren’t aliens that …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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