It's hard not to crack a smile at former PC Gamer columnist Xalavier Nelson Jr's game premises. His previous games include a "sci-fi body horror market tycoon," an "open world Strand-type game," and An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs (which is just its name). The upcoming El Paso, Elsewhere, which I played for a bit at GDC last month, doesn't disappoint in that regard. It's about "confronting your relationship trauma" by stopping the world-ending designs of your ex-girlfriend, "Draculae, lord of the vampires," who's holed up at the bottom of 46 substories that spontaneously appeared beneath a motel in Texas.
To get to her, you'll have to wield guns and wooden stakes against "distorted werewolves, biblically-accurate angels, vampires and more." The third-person shooter is heavily inspired by Max Payne, with slo-mo leaping and a pill-addicted, block-headed protagonist who likes to monologue about life's contradictions.
