The Baconing
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The Baconing is an adventure developed by Hothead Games, released 30 August 2011 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux and Mac.
What The Baconing is
The Baconing is an adventure game developed by Hothead Games and released in 2011. It was published by Valcon Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on PhyreEngine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You are DeathSpank, a hero and the ultimate Dispenser of Justice. You must defeat the Anti-Spank and his army of Cyborques, before they cast an evil shadow over Spanktopia.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Baconing holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon 64 (or equivalent) running at 1.7 GHz or greater, 1 GB or greater of RAM and ATI Radeon X1900 GT 256MB and the Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB PCI-E cards (Shader Model 2.0 and 24bit depth buffer support required). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The Baconing launched on 30 August 2011, within three weeks of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Gears of War 3, Resident Evil 4 and Resistance 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Gears of War 3, Resident Evil 4, Resistance 3.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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