Passage
If you still think games can’t transmit serious messages, try this.
Not much more to say. Just PLAY IT.
Update: Passage is getting some choice reviews in the gaming blogosphere, like this one.
And this, and this plea from Ian Bogost.
Funny how it’s the sort of game that makes everyone quietly say ‘Please play this.’ – instead of the usual ‘OMG this is SO cool, go out and pwn some!’
Unfortunately I can’t get this to work on my work PC, but having read through this: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/statement.html I am very excited to get my hands on it at home. Cheers P.
A lot of people around the blogosphere are relating it to this film:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo