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Towards the end of last year, Oli wrote an impassioned tribute to the double-A game, speaking out for the "dozens of great games that end each year as cultural flotsam on the beach of indifference." "Solid, characterful, double-A genre games like these used to be the staple of an entire industry," he said in a piece cunningly disguised as a tribute to Asura's Wrath, one of our games of 2012. "But as the market for boxed console games shrinks and publishers get more gun-shy, there are fewer of them every year. You'll miss them when they're gone."
It's probably a bit early to talk about Remember Me, another title being published by Capcom, getting washed up on the beach of indifference, and a couple of hours in its presence suggests it certainly shouldn't be: a brilliantly stylish third-person action game that takes the colourful future chic of Mirror's Edge and wraps it around Uncharted-esque exploration and slick combat, there's a lot to admire here. As a boxed game that's not realistically shooting for Call of Duty numbers, it's probably fairer to point out that this could be the last of its sort, and it's the kind of thing we'll certainly miss.
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