Choose Your Own Adventure
Thinking back at the most recent games I have played, for example Borderlands, Mass Effect, Assassin’s creed 2 and Red Dead Redemption, I have noticed something quite often; the fact that it is becoming almost commonplace to use a quest or mission system as a way to further player progression. Thinking about it more I realise that the system is able to bring forth similarities between games which would otherwise stand firmly separated by their differences in genre, mechanical considerations or setting.
Donkey Kong Country Returns – Is This Like the Original Donkey Kong Game?Our favourite barrel smashing, banana eating, Tiki destroying ape is back with the new Donkey Kong Country Returns Wii game and from what i have seen it looks pretty amazing. For years true old school gamers have waited for Donkey Dong and Diddy to return in a proper platform and with new and better graphics, moves and levels this will have us squealing like a little kid in a sweetie store!
Classic Game Review: Parthian KingsThe King is dead, and the kingdom is in chaos. Who will gain control of the fallen crown? Will it be you, or one of your less worthy opponents?
Classic Game Review: Planet FallPlanet fall is a text adventure game that begins with you, a lowly ensign, scrubbing the decks of the Stellar Patrol Ship Feinstein. Your life has never seemed worse, and your future looks very bleak, boring, and uneventful. Right about this time your ship is rocked by an explosion.
Classic Game Review: Planet MasterPlanet Master Jasper’s ubiquitous smile was eclipsed by a dark cloud of displeasure as he stepped over the lifeless carcasses of the JAGHERS. “What a miscalculation!” he muttered across his protruding lower lip, “I never would have guessed they were too far.
Classic Game Review: Probe OneProbe one offers something for both the adventure and arcade-action enthusiast. In this science fiction based action adventure, you explore room after room of a space colony research centre. Your objective: find the transmitter and escape.
Classic Game Review: Reforger 88REFORGER ’88 reflects the same kind of careful research and exciting game theory which the hobby has come to expect from Gary Grigsby after games like Guadalcanal Campaign, Carrier Force, Objective Kursk, and War in Russia. In this simulation, a hypothetical invasion of the Fulda Gap by Warsaw Pact forces with the main objective of securing Rhein Main Air Force Base near Frankfurt, U. S.
Classic Game Review: Sea StalkerThere you are, cosy and safe in your research laboratory, hunched over your workbench, studying the diagram of your futuristic submarine, the “Scimitar.” Suddenly, the videophone alarm begins to blast, but you’re so engrossed in your work that you don’t look up until your friend Tip Randall rushes to your side yelling, “Patti, snap out of it!” You pick up the microphone and speak with Zoe Bly, Commander of the undersea Aqua dome.
Top Nintendo DS Games for GirlsNintendo DS is a handheld gaming system that has been around for many years, and has been loved by girls of any age since the very beginning. This year, Nintendo will be stocking store shelves with some of the best DS games for kids. As expected, there is a Nintendo DS game available for just about any hobby, movie, or game imaginable, so the hardest thing you’ll need to do when finding the perfect one for the girl on your list is choosing which ones NOT to give, since your options will be endless! To get your job started, here are some of 2010’s top Nintendo DS games for girls.
Classic Game Review: MicrobeRobert Clardy and Synergistic Software have done it again! As much of a breakthrough as ODYSSEY was, Clardy has outdone himself with MICROBE. It’s like nothing I’ve ever played.
Classic Game Reivew: How About A Nice Game of Chess?Here’s a version of Odesta’s Chess 7.0 program for Commodore 64 owners. It’s easily the best chess-playing program for the C64 and it does so much more than a typical chess program that it needs a new category.
Classic Game Review: Movie MakerMovie Maker (MMTK) is a one of a kind program for developing your own computer-animated visual sequences, or “movies”. This program places you in both the director’s chair and at the artist’s drawing board. You devise the action, set the scenes, and create the actors, props, and background, and playback your creation as a complete movie.