I have always liked turn based strategy games.. They used to be “the” game genre, but over the years as time and technology has marched forward they have largely started to decline in favor of more real time strategy games and first person shooters.
So when W!Games introduced Greed Corp a modern turn based strategy game with a very clever land collapsing mechanic to the PC late last year, I was pretty excited.. This was the first I had heard of it even though the PS3 and XBox players had access to it since last February. I don’t follow the console games market at all so it was completely new to me.
I have to admit I really like it.. The best part about this game is that it’s actually a game.. Meaning it focuses on game play not wizbang special effects or graphics.. I really feel that this is a shining example of good game design and salute the W!Games folks.
A while back I was trolling the intertoobs for a new game when I stumbled across Perpetuum Online; A Hungarian borne MMO based in the distant future on a far away planet where the avatars are Mech based as are the mobs with a large skill based PVE and PVP system.. Booya! It sounded great!
So when it came out the other day, I was one of the first to sign up. And I have to say I’m having a good time with it, but I’m getting ahead of myself..
Now I want to give a fair description of the game, and I want to do my best to review it for its own merits, but its going to be really hard for me not to point out the similarities with Eve Online.
That is to say, its really similar in a lot of ways.. You could sum up a lot of the game by saying; Eve Online has space ships.. Perpetuum Online has mechs.. And you’d get a pretty fair idea of how Perpetuum works.
I really do enjoy the Call of Duty franchise.. It started out as a PC shooter back in 2003 and was pretty much heralded as the game to be or beat.. They continued with expansion after expansion and broadened their horizons to other machines. At this point the franchise spans something like 15 to 20 titles on 5 or 6 different platforms earning more than $3 billion dollars world wide, and even includes it’s own line of action figures.. However their latest offering is down right bad and they should hang their head a little..
More over, for a game that started on the PC one would think they would give it more love than they do.. At this point the PC version of the latest game is completely unplayable by a large portion of the market, myself included and some how that seems okay to them.
I never played the first Force Unleashed game and I sorta regretted it as I knew several folks who said it was a pretty good game.. So I was really excited when they announced a Force Unleashed 2 for the PC. I figured that I’d finally get to try what everyone was talking about..
Well I’ve tried it.. What a piece of shit.. This is quite honestly the first game that has pissed me off in a long time.. And I mean absolutely barking at the computer, pissed off..
So I am a HUGE fan of Portal.. It was quite possibly one of the best 3 hour games I have ever played.. I mean, it was absolutely genius.. It a first person physics puzzle that walked this amazingly fine line of comedic darkness that kept you thinking, and laughing..
The only negative feedback anyone ever was able to come up with was how short it was.. When I say its a 3 hour game.. I mean it, it’s a 3 hour game.. Even going slow you should be able to solve it in that amount of time.. You can eek out a couple extra hours of fun by doing the bonus levels or trying to get all the achievements but that’s really it..
That was a tad disappointing, but Valve knew they were on to something and started working on the next installment almost immediately..
I can’t even begin to describe how awesome this is going to be.. I’m so stoked.. And I have to say, I totally called it!! Or at the very least I wished for it really, really hard over a year ago.. I know they have been working to get to this point for years, but I want to take credit! haha
Firstly – Watch this video that Engadget posted today:
I am SO very proud of Harmonix.. They have the vision to follow this thing through to the final conclusion.. You guys ROCK! Even if the end product is only so so, it still will go a really long way towards a musical reawakening.. I can’t wait!!
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