If you’re nearly anything like we of The A.V. Club, expensive reader, then you want no justification to fritter absent some time enjoying a silly browser-primarily based video clip match. “Oh, I’ll expend five minutes enjoying this,” you might lie say to yourself, “just for a little psychological break.” Abruptly three hrs have gone by and you’re nonetheless enjoying as the rats in the partitions and whoops, weren’t you supposed to have submitted that story by now?
So despite the actuality that this is definitely a advertising for Netflix, we’re of program going to publish about the “browser-primarily based, top-down, defeat ‘em up videogame” they’ve introduced to celebrate The Previous Guard, the streamer’s new action movie starring Charlize Theron and Kiki Layne. (We favored it!) And even though we are not covering it for the reason that the sport will come with the probability to get an “immortal” Netflix subscription, we’re also not going to underplay that portion, mainly because if you are going to unintentionally invest an afternoon participating in a video game you intended to play for 5 minutes tops, you could as effectively have a shot at being rewarded for your alternatives.
The motive for the gimmick is uncomplicated ample: The Old Guard are a team of covert operatives who also take place to be immortal. In the movie, Theron plays Andy, or Andromache of Scythia in the game, that’s you, wielding her trusty Labrys (a giant ax). If you die, that is ok! Like Andy and the customers of Chumbawamba, you get knocked down, but you get up yet again. In the game, loss of life only slows you down marginally.
Now, Netflix can’t essentially give you an immortal membership due to the fact that supposes that Netflix will in no way die, and every little thing dies, alright? As an alternative, the winner will primarily get no cost Netflix for the vast majority of their mortal existence, which is still probably a pretty strong prize (assuming the globe lasts for at the very least a couple more years). But there is, of system, a capture: it is a 1-weekend-only deal, July 17–19. Whoever has the greatest score at the conclusion of the weekend wins the prize.
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