Liven up a walk in the woods by investigating a crash
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RELEASE Out now (Early Access)
DEVELOPER White Pig Games
PUBLISHER Duality Games
LINK whitepiggames.com
First-person games tend to hand you a shotgun then send you off in search of someone to unload it into, so it’s a refreshing change to play a game in which the most dangerous thing you’ll be waving around is a cordless drill (and you’ll need some batteries for that too).
PlaneAccidentis not a game about causing a jumbo jet to plummet from around 30,000ft, but instead casts you as an investigator, first on the scene following a crash and responsible for working out what happened using drones, email, and little flags that mark the location of debris.
The tutorial mission is entirely set in a warehouse, with all the parts and items you’ll need in easy reach, but once you’ve sniffed out the reason this plane crashed (it looks like a bomb, which makes it sound much more action-packed than your trips to and from the office, courier truck and tool bench would otherwise be) you’re sent out to the woods to tackle the real thing.
SPARSE WOODLAND
When you get there in your pickup truck, there’s little to see beyond the sort of house in the woods some of us dream of and a stream with a little waterfall. It’s a sparse woodland, the rocks kind of angular (in the warehouse tutorial, there were shafts of sunlight passing through the blinds that promised some lovely outdoor locations) and some textures decidedly low-res once you get too close to them. It’s a Unity game and this is demo code, so there’s time to sharpen it up.
THE REAL INVESTIGATION STARTS WHEN YOU’RE BACK AT YOUR HANGAR-LIKE OFFICE
PLAYED IT
Once the plane wreck is in sight, you can use a drone to scout the area out (it rises straight up from the back of your truck, taking no notice of the power lines above) and scan the area for debris. I find the propeller of the plane a long way from the fuselage, but also discover that someone has dumped a washing machine and an old Atari game console out there too. The plane’s two seats have been thrown from the doors during the crash, though the bodies have been removed, and the engine is still on fire. I quickly put it out with a fire extinguisher, and g
