Rust Review

Rust delivers all the fun of a nudist colony in post apocalyptic Earth.

Rust, the post apocalyptic survival game seems to have been inspired by Minecraft, Darwin, and porn. You spawn in a hostile world with no clothes, no cell phone, no guns, just a rock. Not even a particularly big or heavy rock which could be an effective weapon, its just a plain old rock. Like Minecraft the player has the freedom to wander around a sprawling world filled with animals, resources, and beautiful landscapes. Unlike Minecraft the player is surrounded by other players on the server. They all start out just like you do, naked alone and hopeless, but through hard work and team work they can achieve success in this world that many people can share. 

In my time in the game I quickly discovered that many of the other players are not interested in altruism. As a naked man I was killed and robbed fifteen times before I found a friendly player. Eventually I found another player named Steve, we wandered the world, fighting off the zombies and bears, and hiding from better players who had built homes where we were. Steve was significantly farther along than I was, but he shared with me many of his weapons, medicine, and even clothes. After many hours together Steve and I shared Skype information so we could team up and play again. He let me set up my bed within his house so that way when I signed off my character wouldn't be killed by other players and have my inventory looted. What Steve didn't know was that I had already learned the rules of the wild. As Steve signed off I told him that I would sign off as well. I lied. As Steve signed off his avatar fell asleep inside his house, I went ahead and took my oppritubity to murder him and loot his body. Knowing that he would hunt me down with his house full of guns and grenades he had fashioned for himself, I decided it would also be advantageous to steal everything from his house. But he had all of my information for the game, he could easily hunt me down if he forged new weapons, which is easy to do with a house as defended and secure as his. I knew what I had to do. From the outside his house was an impenetrable fortress, but from the inside I could easily tear it down. I razed his home leaving nothing but a few standing walls and his corpse lying on the ground.

When Steve signed back on and saw what I had done he sent me a long paragraph on Skype about how he knew he shouldn't have trusted me, should have killed me when I was weak, and many other offensive things he wants to do to my avatar and me in real life. My only reply was, "Thanks for the free stuff." I then proceeded to help out a random player and the exact thing that I did to Steve happened to me as he murdered my player in his sleep. I should have known better, but I rationalized it as I needed a clan to compete with the other players who formed clans or groups.

That is the nature of Rust, you need to work together to move up in the world, but inevitably the selfishness of every player comes out as the cut-throat world is in a constant state of self destruction and re-alignment. It is almost a social experiment on the human race, and it is nail biting every step of the way.

5/5

Pros	Cons
+Nudity	-Still not a Completed Game yet
+Great Gameplay	-Nudity
+Illustrates Survival of the Fittest