Post by Toxic_Few on Sept 12, 2009 13:49:48 GMT -8
I grabbed a game last night from Steam that's on sale this weekend for $10, actually $9.99 lol. I didn't expect too much as I've never heard of this game nor the publisher, which turns out to be an independent release. This turned out to be quite an interesting game. I would say the overall theme is science fantasy. The rounds can last an hour sometimes, depending on how the server is set up and how many are playing. The best way I can describe this game is that it offers something for different people. If you're a fps genre, you'll like the different classes and the different ways you can load them out. There's 2 races, the Humans and the Animals. Both have balanced character types and the more you work as a team to gather and conquest resources, the more eash individual has to spend on an upgraded character. The game also offers upgrades by way of earned points. These points go into 4 different attributes, and are earned similarly to the way Quake Wars does. The more you kill, the faster you get to upgrade your abilities. Pretty neat system as it begins with everyone equal and the better players advancing more quickly.
If you like strategies, this has the opportunity for anyone that would like, to be able to jump in the comm side of the game and control players as though they are players on some board game gone awry. LOL
It takes a bit to understand all the apspects of it, but the gameplay is really fun and the graphics are very nice, especially since I remember what some of the mods looked like for the original half life. One of the nicest things about this game is that you can spend as much time as you want in different training modes to understand how to play with all the options.
Something else I really thought was nice was the price you pay for the game is for life. You get a preferred player status and even if this game takes off, you can say you were one of the first.
My biggest hope right now is to find a game we can all play and get together on vent again. I love it when we go into a server and as a team we annihilate other pubs. You guys rock as a team. Anyhoo, it's well worth the money and the game even advertises that all games are recorded. I assume they have a server just for that, but it sure would be kinda cool to review a game once you got the hang of it.
I'll be on all night tonight and probably tomorrow eve. Jump on xfire or vent and give me a shout if you grab it.
TOX
If you like strategies, this has the opportunity for anyone that would like, to be able to jump in the comm side of the game and control players as though they are players on some board game gone awry. LOL
It takes a bit to understand all the apspects of it, but the gameplay is really fun and the graphics are very nice, especially since I remember what some of the mods looked like for the original half life. One of the nicest things about this game is that you can spend as much time as you want in different training modes to understand how to play with all the options.
Something else I really thought was nice was the price you pay for the game is for life. You get a preferred player status and even if this game takes off, you can say you were one of the first.
My biggest hope right now is to find a game we can all play and get together on vent again. I love it when we go into a server and as a team we annihilate other pubs. You guys rock as a team. Anyhoo, it's well worth the money and the game even advertises that all games are recorded. I assume they have a server just for that, but it sure would be kinda cool to review a game once you got the hang of it.
I'll be on all night tonight and probably tomorrow eve. Jump on xfire or vent and give me a shout if you grab it.
TOX