ODF502: 80's Revival in Contemporary Media

So far in 2013 I've been noticing a lot of media artifacts being revived from the 80's style. The most prominent events and trends in the 80's popular culture of the decade include Music, Film, Television, Fashion and Video games. Popular video games include: Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong and Tetris  to name the least. With today's technology, all these games can easily be recreated to fit today's media or today's contemporary games could be made into 80's style. 

I recently saw a teaser trailer of a next gen console system named 'Cyber Punk 2077'.

Cyber Punk 2077 has an amazing 80's style concept to it, yet it is based in a retro futuristic Blade Runner Esq world. The game is being developed by CD Projekt RED for the PlayStation 4 and XBOX ONE consoles, it is due to be released in 2015. The game will feature an 80's style futuristic world in which ultra-modern technology co-exists with a degenerated human society. The developers mentioned that the game aims to be mature and ambitious, with character customisations being strongly tied to the plot. Analysing the teaser trailer, I'm guessing these customisations will be the cyber limbs and the Real Skin. According to the developers, the story of the game will be a non-linear one and will have different character classes throughout, the game will be playable as a multiplayer. The teaser trailer received a lot of positive feedback for it's amazing graphics and the developers are also known for their previous PC game, The Witcher. Below is the teaser trailer of the game: 

Another 80's Revival game that caught my attention is Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. 

Blood Dragon is a FPS developed and published by Ubisoft as a stand-alone expansion to the 2012 video game Far Cry 3 meaning players do not need the original copy of Far Cry 3 to gain access to Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. The game, a satire of 1980s action films, takes place on a retro-futuristic open world island crawling with evil. Players can play as the action role of eye-patched cyborg protagonist Sergeant Rex Power Colt. The release of the game was on April 30 2013, for PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network, it has also been released for XBox. The game received generally positive reviews from professional critics on release. 







As a promo for the game Ubisoft hired VFX You Tube stars known as Corridor Digital to create a short film to help promote the game. Here's the link to it below: