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Eufloria Many games in the Real Time Strategy genre seek to deliver a tense, seat-of-your-pants, "what will happen next?" experience. Such is not the case with Eufloria, the independently-developed, slow-paced title that entered into the public spotlight at the 2009 IGF Festival. Seasoned RTS veterans may find themselves frustrated with the game's simple nature and lack of multiplayer, but for those on the look out…
Prince of Persia, simply put, is one of the most beautiful games of this console generation. It is also a serviceable platformer. If this is everything you look for in a game, the new PoP absolutely deserves a rent, (and if you don't mind its short length, maybe even a purchase.) If you also require engaging story, however, you may be disappointed in this title. Prince of Persia is the forth title in the series to…
KORG DS-10 Synthesizer is an application for the Nintendo DS that allows the user to design and mix up to 16 musical patterns in order to create electronic, loop-based songs. At first the software seems severely limited. Each "pattern" is made up of only two synthesized tracks, the maximum duration of which is about 4 beats (not measures... beats.) Add in a stunted instrument selection and you have something that,…
Apologies, but for just one minute I have to join the screaming multitudes. Let me say that there are cliff hanger endings, and there are endings that com e simply because the developers decided that the next game would begin here. Assassin's Creed has one of the later category. It's a shame that the game has such a bad case of schizophrenia - it oscillates so quickly from being engaging to being mind-blowingly dull…
ICO, a puzzle-platformer produced in 2001, is a game that many have chosen to describe as "minimalist." Cutscenes are few and far between, and when they do appear, the few characters within the plot (there are three) generally say only a few words. This might be a downer for those who appreciate BIOWARE-esque conversations to advance the story, but ICO more than makes up for the lack of speech with rich facial and…
One certainly has to credit Team 17 for pursuing the "Worm's" franchise for so many years; the result of that work is visible in many aspects of the Worms: Open Warfare 2 experience. For those unfamiliar with the franchise, Worms is a game of the turn-based soft-strategy genre. Players square off against each other with an army of tiny invertebrates, four to a team in this iteration. Their main objective is to…
I'm sure that it's written elsewhere how Homeworld functions as a quality strategy game. I've decided to let those who genuinely appreciate the game for that reason do the talking on that subject; for my part, I don't think the RTS aspects of the game have too much to do with the grand level of entertainment that Homeworld delivers. First and foremost, the Homeworld experience is a powerful story. All other facets…
