Monday, December 19, 2011
Dead Island
A great game to play with friends, not so good by yourself or with strangers but still playable. It's a lot of fun and the landscapes have a nice variety to keep it feeling fresh. As you play the zombies you face become harder but I didn't feel overwhelmed by the amount of them at any point in the game, it could stand to be a bit more challenging. There's a few secrets in the game and a lot of thought was put into the co-op mode. The game contains vehicles and suprisingly they aren't awful to control, they actually handle pretty decently. I really enjoyed playing through this game with my friends and highly recommend it if you have someone to play with.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
A really fun casual tower defense title from the first person perspective. If you have never played a tower defense game before the objective is to setup a wall of towers between the enemies and your base, they will walk through the maze you have built and be damaged by the towers.
Sanctum takes this a step futher by putting the game into the first person view, after you have built your towers you press enter and begin the wave and the game transforms into a first person shooter. You are given 3 guns. A machine gun which features a grenade as it's secondary fire, a sniper rifle & a freeze gun which you can use to slow one enemy or freeze a group.
In between waves you may upgrade/build towers or choose to upgrade your weapons. Upgrading your weapons lets you deal more damage with the machine gun & sniper rifle, let's you zoom in further and shoot more shots without reloading while using the sniper rifle or freeze enemies for a greater duration with the freeze gun.
There are a number of different towers you can build on your walls. The gatling gun tower good for taking out waves of small enemies, the lightning tower which deals strong damage but takes awhile to recharge and in later upgrades will do a chain lightning attack damaging multiple enemies, the anti-air tower which shoots missiles at air enemies and the mortor tower which shoots powerful bombs at a slow rate to damage groups of tougher enemies. In addition to building towers you may also build & upgrade slow fields to reduce the speed of enemies as they move through your maze.
Multiplayer is tons of fun although in no way competitive due to the use of random waves, the upside is that things are kept fresh and interesting as you don't know what to expect each time you play a map. It features support for up to 4 players, the limit was previously 2 but due to community feedback the developers decided to upgrade it to 4 as well as adding the ability to pool resources between players to upgrade towers.
Each map is beautifully crafted by some talented map designers, there are tons of minute details that you would probably overlook if you weren't searching for them as well as numerous secret areas that help flush out the background story to the game.
The game feels really professionally made considering it is an indie title and is a blast to play. I highly recommend this title to anyone who enjoys tower defense games or first person shooters.
Battlefield: Bad Company™ 2
This game has awesome visuals, yet still runs really well for a console port. The game features fast paced gameplay set in large open enviornments wtih vehicle and infantry combat. Each class has several guns you may unlock by killing enemies & completing objectives. There is a cool squad based system where you join squads of up to 4 players and may spawn on other members of your squad as well as getting additional points for healing/repairing/resupplying/assisting members of your squad. This encourages co-operation between small groups of players and if you are playing with your friends makes it easy to stick together. The game supposably has built in voice chat but i've never had any success with it so I recommend playing it while using steam group chat or a similar third party program such as Teamspeak or Mumble. The game is heaps of fun when you are on the winning team but can be incredibly frustating when you are with a bad team and the enemy manages to advance to your base.
FEAR
FEAR is a first person horror shooter that can freak you out at times. It features really intelligent AI who will work together to flank you and perform other realistic military tactics. To counter this your character has supernaturally fast reflexes, the games way of simulating this is giving you the ability to slow down time with a recharging bar. The bullet time slowdown effects look especially nice with some impressive bullet trail and explosion effects. The game features a very fast paced multiplayer experience which has since become available completely free from http://projectorigin.warnerbros.com/fearcombat/main Multiplayer has several game modes such as Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch & CTF (your standard fare) as well as adding Slow Mo Deathmatch which puts one slow motion powerup on the map and whoever has it gets the ability to slow down time for everyone. Multiplayer features a nice variety maps set in offices and factory warehouses. The game also contains a level edtior.
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