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Red Dead Redemption is a 2010 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar San Diego and published by Rockstar Games. A spiritual successor to 2004's Red Dead Revolver, it is the second game in the Red Dead series. Red Dead Redemption is set during the decline of the American frontier in the year 1911 and follows John Marston, a former outlaw whose wife and son are taken hostage by the government in ransom for his services as a hired gun. Having no other choice, Marston sets out to bring three members of his former gang to justice. Matt's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/flabin Our Website: https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/ Review us! https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/review Like our music? Sign up for Epidemic using this link to help the show with a free 30 day trial. https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/music Segue music provided by Jeff: https://soundcloud.com/thejbones

In this episode we discuss the original Resident Evil! Resident Evil is a survival horror video game developed and released by Capcom originally for the PlayStation in 1996, and is the first game in the Resident Evil series. The game's plot follows Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, members of an elite task force known as S.T.A.R.S., as they investigate the outskirts of Raccoon City following the disappearance of their team members. They soon become trapped in a mansion infested with zombies and other monsters. The player, having selected to play as Chris or Jill at the start of the game, must explore the mansion to uncover its secrets and find a way to escape. Matt's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/flabin Our Website: https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/ Review us! https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/review Like our music? Sign up for Epidemic using this link to help the show with a free 30 day trial. https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/music Segue music provided by Jeff: https://soundcloud.com/thejbones

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction is an action-adventure stealth video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal as part of the Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series. The events of the main game take place three years after that of Splinter Cell: Double Agent, and is followed by Splinter Cell: Blacklist Matt's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/flabin Our Website: https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/ Review us! https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/review Like our music? Sign up for Epidemic using this link to help the show with a free 30 day trial. https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/music Segue music provided by Jeff: https://soundcloud.com/thejbones

In this episode we discuss Valve's hit puzzle platformer, Portal 2! Like the original Portal (2007), players solve puzzles by placing portals and teleporting between them. Portal 2 adds features including tractor beams, lasers, light bridges, and paint-like gels that alter player movement or allow portals to be placed on any surface. In the single-player campaign, players control Chell, who navigates the dilapidated Aperture Science Enrichment Center during its reconstruction by the supercomputer GLaDOS (Ellen McLain); new characters include robot Wheatley (Stephen Merchant) and Aperture founder Cave Johnson (J. K. Simmons). In the new cooperative mode, players solve puzzles together as robots Atlas and P-Body (both voiced by Dee Bradley Baker). Jonathan Coulton and The National produced songs for the game. Matt's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/flabin Our Website: https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/ Review us! https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/review Like our music? Sign up for Epidemic using this link to help the show with a free 30 day trial. https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/music Segue music provided by Jeff (non-news): https://soundcloud.com/thejbones

The Sims is a series of life simulation video games developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. The franchise has sold nearly 200 million copies worldwide, and it is one of the best-selling video game series of all time. The games in the Sims series are largely sandbox games, in that they lack any defined goals (except for some later expansion packs and console versions which introduced this gameplay style). The player creates virtual people called "Sims," places them in houses, and helps direct their moods and satisfy their desires. Players can either place their Sims in pre-constructed homes or build them themselves. Each successive expansion pack and game in the series augmented what the player could do with their Sims. The Sims series is part of the larger Sim series, started by SimCity in 1989. Matt's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/flabin Our Website: https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/ Review us! https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/review Like our music? Sign up for Epidemic using this link to help the show with a free 30 day trial. https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/music Segue music provided by Jeff: https://soundcloud.com/thejbones

Cities: Skylines is a progression of development from Colossal Order's previous Cities in Motion titles, which focused on designing effective transportation systems. While the developers felt they had the technical expertise to expand to a full city simulation game, their publisher Paradox held off on the idea, fearing the market dominance of SimCity. After the critical failure of the 2013 SimCity game, however, Paradox greenlit the title. The developer's goal was to create a game engine capable of simulating the daily routines of nearly a million unique citizens, while presenting this to the player in a simple way, allowing the player to easily understand various problems in their city's design. This includes realistic traffic congestion, and the effects of congestion on city services and districts. Since the game's release, various expansions and other DLC has been released for the game. The game also has built-in support for user-generated content. The AI in Cities: Skylines Matt's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/flabin Our Website: https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/ Review us! https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/review Like our music? Sign up for Epidemic using this link to help the show with a free 30 day trial. https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/music Segue music provided by Jeff: https://soundcloud.com/thejbones Special Guest: Ervin.

In the SimCity games, the player develops a city from a patch of undeveloped land. The player controls where to place development zones, infrastructure like roads and power plants, landmarks, and public services such as schools, parks, hospitals and fire stations. The player also determines the tax rate, the budget, and social policy. The city is populated by "Sims", simulated persons, who live in the city created by the player. The three development zone types are the major areas in which Sims inhabit: residential zones for houses and apartment buildings; commercial zones for shops and offices; industrial zone for factories, warehouses, laboratories and farms. While there is no particular win condition in a game of SimCity, the balancing act of the above-mentioned factors provides the constraints which make gameplay possible. To maximize population or profitability, to re-create real-life locations in-game, achieve an aesthetic design or to trigger as many natural disasters as possible are among the many possible goals one can determine for oneself while playing a SimCity game. Matt's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/flabin Our Website: https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/ Review us! https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/review Like our music? Sign up for Epidemic using this link to help the show for a free 30 day trial. https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/music Segue music provided by Jeff: https://soundcloud.com/thejbones

Luigi's Mansion is an action-adventure video game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. The game was a launch title for the GameCube and was the first game in the Mario franchise to be released for the console. It's the fifth best selling GameCube game of all time. In Luigi's Mansion, the main story is played out over four stages, with players able to also access a training room and a gallery at the Professor E. Gadd's laboratory between stages. In each stage, players control Luigi as he explores the mansion's rooms and hunts down the ghosts that lie within them, acquiring keys to get through locked doors and eventually dealing with a boss ghost hidden at the end of the stage, with more rooms becoming accessible as each stage is completed. Luigi's Mansion Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUtOezg__g&t=40s Pokemon Games Announced: https://youtu.be/eo8hexuJSak?t=659 Matt's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/flabin Our Website: https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/ Review us! https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/review Like our music? Sign up for Epidemic using this link to help the show with a free 30 day trial. https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/music Segue music provided by Jeff: https://soundcloud.com/thejbones

The game is set in the year 1912 and follows its protagonist, former Pinkerton agent Booker DeWitt, who is sent to the airborne city of Columbia to find a young woman, Elizabeth, who has been held captive there for most of her life. Though Booker rescues Elizabeth, the two become involved with the city's warring factions: the nativist and elite Founders that rule Columbia and strive to keep its privileges for White Americans, and the Vox Populi, underground rebels representing the underclass of the city. During this conflict, Booker learns that Elizabeth possesses strange powers to manipulate "Tears" in the space-time continuum that ravage Columbia, and soon discovers her to be central to the city's dark secrets. Matt's twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/flabin Our Website: https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/ Review us! https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/review Like our music? Sign up for Epidemic using this link to help the show with a free 30 day trial. https://www.thisgameinhistory.com/music Segue music provided by Jeff: https://soundcloud.com/thejbones

Assuming control of Subject Delta, a hulking Big Daddy, players are tasked with fighting through Splicers, the psychotic human population of the city, using weapons and an array of genetic modifications. The game also includes a story-driven multiplayer mode that takes place during Rapture's civil war, before the events of the first game. BioShock 2 was chiefly developed by 2K Marin, with 2K Australia, Arkane Studios, and Digital Extremes providing additional support. The story received major changes over the course of development. Garry Schyman, the composer of the first game, returned to create the score for BioShock 2. BioShock 2 begins on New Year's Eve 1958. Subject Delta, a Big Daddy, patrols Rapture with Eleanor, his Little Sister. Eleanor's mother, Sofia Lamb, separates the pair and forces Delta to kill himself. Delta awakens in 1968, resurrected by Little Sisters under the control of Eleanor.