No one learns anything and there is no real plot resolution. I found the story in I Am Alive to be initially compelling but as I neared the end of the game I found myself less and less interested until finally I had hit the ending and was subsequently disappointed. This is the world where I Am Alive takes place and it maybe an okay place to visit but I sure wouldn’t want to live there. A some folks are just really defensive, brandishing their machetes in an effort to ward of would be raiders but most of the people left in the city of Haventon are terrible terrible people who will not hesitate to kill you and take whatever supplies you may have. There are a few other survivors scattered around the toppled buildings and ruined subways but most people in this city are not as happy to see Adam as those in need of help. As he returns to the ruins of Haventon he begins a search for his wife and daughter. He was on the east coast when the disaster struck and it’s taken him a whole year to walk home. Most people would hold up in a safe place and wait for rescue but not Adam, the game’s protagonist. People are sick from the dust that has covered the city of Haventon and frightened by the armed thugs that now roam its streets. I Am Alive doesn’t take any liberties with society, this game has a very bleak view of what the world really could be like after a catastrophic event.
Additionally, I was really interested in how a post-apocalyptic game would fare when set in a more realistic world as opposed to something like Fallout 3 or Left 4 Dead. I’d been waiting for a post-apocalyptic survival game without all those troublesome undead running about or a constant fear of radiation poisoning. When I saw the first trailer for I Am Alive in 2008 I was instantly hyped.
Finally earlier this year Ubisoft announced via their Facebook page that I Am Alive would arise from the dust on March 7th. In September of 2011 that small glimmer of hope became a shining beacon as a new trailer was revealed with a release date slated for Winter 2012. Then in May of 2011 Ubisoft announced the cancellation of a few projects, but mysteriously I Am Alive was not among them, indicating that there might still be hope for the title. The studio then went dark on the project for a few years and many people began to speculate about the game’s cancellation. The first teaser for Ubisoft’s I Am Alive debuted at E3 in 2008.