Oil's Well RedrilledSystempunkt'd | Submitted by the99th on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 22:38. |
Oil's Well Redrilled is a re-make of the old Sierra game from 1983, created by FireStorm Productions. You should be aware of peak oil, because it you're not this game is just a hack-ish time-waster (and you won't survive the next decade). If you are, this game becomes ripe with metaphor, furling out to a meditative exercise on the nature of the beast, the hunger we share with it, and how we got to this point.
It starts with the dinner; several people are sitting around the table, represented as multicolored shapes -- squares, diamonds, circles. You tab through the up and down keys, cycling through them, learning their names, getting aquainted. Then you play with the left and right keys, moving through time. Two people leave, then another, then the dining room is empty, and the narrative unfolds. Daisy discovers the body in the study.
