“A cup full could power a city of millions for a month,” says the in-game narrator. So I best get to the discussion of the game before I actually croak: In the “Alien Rage” universe, when humans joined the deep-space race by the year 2230, we got lucky very quickly and happened upon Deimos 875, a massive, million-year-old asteroid that had been cooking up Promethium, a highly efficient source of lava-like energy. I guess I’m really starting to sound like a crotchety old man now. (Actually, several professional reviewers make this same case, but they use it as a critical argument to prove how dated the game feels.) If any of us-and I mean any of us-had encountered this intentionally clichéd, “homage” title five or six years ago, we would have been stopped in our tracks…or at least we would have been highly entertained. We’ve got so many great games to choose from (and within those games so many choices to make), that chucking a somewhat flawed, largely (and deliberately) derivative game like this into the trash bin doesn’t require a second thought. My theory? This game tanked because we’re spoiled beyond belief. Currently, it sits on Metacritic with an appalling, headscratching score of 52 for PC (and an even more bewildering 46 for the console version). The result? “Alien Rage,” published by CI Games (known in a previous incarnation as City Interactive), was almost universally dismissed by critics when it was released. (I mean someone carefully penned the dialogue spewed by these otherwise generic jarheads.) It’s a crazy fun, fast-paced, difficult-as-hell, old-school-inspired, space-marine shitkicking, first-person, sci-fi journey with big effing explosions, smooth-as-glass gameplay, electric environments and colors, and genuinely humorous banter. “Alien Rage” (2013, Poland) illustrates precisely how goddamned spoiled we are. We’re horrendously spoiled little mutherfrickin’ brats. And when I say “we,” I mean you and me, game players like us. While the tactics are questionable, I must concede one point: It’s been a year since my last post. (NOTE: The following post is inspired by Mark L., faithful crappy blog reader and part-time City Interactive devotee who threatened physical and/or virtual violence if I didn’t add new material to the site. Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green.

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