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tigsource.com - 1/3/2009

Gravity Bone

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Gravity Bone is a stylish first-person action game set in the seedy world of Nuevo Aires. The game is almost painfully short, but has enough panache in its two levels to make it somewhat of an indie sleeper hit of the end of 2008. Creator Brendon Chung has an impeccable flair for graphic ...

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Fun For Free - Jed
4 color rebellion — ... . This is definitely a game I’d pay money for on Wiiware. The other game is very different, it’s a FPS with very original, and cool, graphics. There’s not much in the way of gameplay, but the graphics and style in Gravity Bone makes it worth a try. ...

The Daily GameDev.net
GameDev.Net — ... , which has been getting deservedly rave reviews across the entire Internet. It mixes the fun of platform adventuring with vicious, arbitrary brutalizations of your hapless explorer. Another independent game which has been getting positive press is Gravity Bone , a stylish espionage thriller which, albeit short, looks delectable.

Gravity Bone
Play This Thing — ... it "succeeds where photorealistic voice-acted three-dee stories stumble because it stays in the realm of the abstract." What's a little weird, in fact, is how over-the-top the praise has been; it's a cool game, but it's also a straightforward 3D platformer, and it's not merely "painfully short" (as Derek Yu says), but awkwardly abrupt. I have no problem with "short," but just as short fiction needs different pacing from novels, so do short games; while the ending sequence is astonishing, it also makes you think that Chung got to a certain point and said "Screw this, I've wasted ...