Observer (Xbox One) Review
The survival horror genre has gone through a big revival in the last few years after seemingly disappearing from the landscape completely. It is a genre where smaller developers, like Bloober Team, have been able to experiment and release games such as Layers of Fear. Taking everything they learned from that release, the studio has now moved to a cyberpunk setting with their latest release Observer. Taking place some 70 years in the future, it sees players take on the role of Detective Daniel Lazarski in a Blade Runner inspired version of Poland. Like many other fictional looks at the future, the world of Observer is a sort of dystopian nightmare where a devastating war has ravaged the land and disease spreads across the planet. The populace is completely dependent on neural implants and the technology corporations that rule over them, relying on digital drugs to erase the horrors of their lives from their minds. As the game begins, you receive a call from your missing son. Abandoning your official