Tuesday, March 4

Games you must play

Here are a few GREAT games you must play


GATE 88



Gate 88.. ah good memories, I just recently downloaded gate 88 onto the hard drive again and let me tell you it was pretty fun playing one of my all time favorites again.  Enough of my ranting.. Gate 88 is a unique multiplayer/singe-player RTS (real time strategie) based in space as you can tell from the above picture. You start out in your commander ship ready to build the HQ (head quarters).  You'll goal of course is to protect your HQ by placing 4 different types of turrets and by building farms to gain money. You will have to research  though or the enemy will over come you.  

Now your going to want to build you HQ then head out far into space to build a Farm for researching and gaining money, if you build your farm by your base the enemy will most likely destroy it and there goes your hard work.. Your base is going to get ransacked so its a good idea to make anything not related to base defense at another location.  

Now I'm not for sure but I know you can join sides online with other players that being if you find enough players but I'm guessing your more then likely to run into other people while online.  My first play and it took a couple mins and some one said "hey there".. I was confused being like what?? where is this person? Is he just a computer??? It wasn't, it was a real person just sitting in the spectator sit.  

The Man joined, his name, "Z",  he was a nice guy, we talked for  awhile then played a short game where I ended up at his mercy being destroyed multiple times but I didn't back off I continued to fight this player obviously more experienced.. Good times but it soon came to a end when my girl friend needed the computer.  


Gate 88 gets a steady 3.5/5






Operation Cleaner 2




So operation cleaner 2 puts you right into the business of blowing Sh** up! Don't let the cute simple graphics fool you. Operation cleaner 2 isn't a easy game you can just play once and be the king of destruction, no you have to practice.  I'll give you the best advice for this though, start out with 20% dynamite then work you way up from there.  

You'll start your career out as a new demo company trying to work your way up, starting with small jobs that are easy enough to complete. You gotta remember this is a simulator, you'll have to pay for your crew and lawyer fee's. 

So maybe you think "why can't I just set a ton of TNT in the middle and blow it". Well you can go ahead and start laying waste to the building by placing a ton of TNT but you have to remember there are buildings near your demo site and if you even touch another building money is going to be flowing though your pocket. 

So all in all operation cleaner 2 is a great game to have to let some steam off, well at least till your failing horribly and wrecking havoc all over town and go bankrupt. 


Operation cleaner 2 gets a 4/5



Ski Stunt Simulator





There Isn't much to say about ski stunt simulator except it's a good time waster.  Nothing more, nothing less. Its just a good game to have to show your friends and have a little fun. Lets move on.

Use this key to get full access to the game.
User: free key
Key: 5D5B-9D2A-50CA-ED67-FDEE-7827-B7F9-690F


Ski Stunt Simulator gets a 2.75/5



Battle Ships Forever




Battle ships Forever is one very unique game by wyrdysm games.  Battle ships forever is closely based on warning forever but takes the game much further. You control a fleet of battle ready star ships out to rid the universe from evil or to wrack havoc.  Battle ships forever features multiple game modes including campaign, sand box mode, and skirmish.    The game is a RTS but instead of spawning units you pick your star ships at the beginning of a stage.  You can't always just go head first, some stages you have to devise strategy to keep your fleet alive long enough to complete the mission.


 Ship Builder

Along with the game battle ships forever, you'll also get the "ship builder" enabling you to make your very own death star (star wars reference).   The game is very unique in the way that I've never really seen anything like it, except for one game but I can not remember the name.  The game that is just like this was awesome, instead of controlling a fleet your a lone fighter fending off all the bigger battle ships. 


 Now I wish I could find that game for you guys, I know you space guys would love me for it... If any one knows what I'm talking about please please please tell me where it is, I've been looking for it forever!!!  


Battle ships forever gets a 4.5/5



Mount&Blade War Band

Warning!!
Mount&blade war band may cause addiction


Introduction


Mount&Blade War Band... what can I say.. It's one of those games you'll almost instantly fall in love with. I'm warning you now, you will become addicted to this game.  It may take an hour or two but it will happen.  Once you get the hang of it you'll be so hooked your wife or girl friend will be jealous. 

Ok enough of that, Mount&Blade War Band is one hell of a game and thank you tale worlds for this masterful creation of awesomeness.

Mount and blade war band is a game about med-evil times,  conquering the revival factions, and gaining wealth and fame. 

Character creation

First of all you'll start the game off by creating a character that you will use in battle. Make sure you get enough strength and charisma.  You'll need charisma to get the skill leadership.  The leadership skill will determine how many men you will be able to have in your army. 

You Adventure Begins

You'll start as a single man army with little to no money at all. Your first goal is going around to towns recruiting men to join your army. At first you may only be able to convince one or two men to join your cause, but soon enough you'll get four to six men at a time, raising arms to fight behind you.  Once you have around 20-30 men you will want to find bandits or army deserters to fight. BE careful who you pick a fight with. If you have 20 men and try to go up against the King of Nord, you'll get demolished!!  Each king will never have less then 100 men on him at any given time.. Even with a evenly match game 100 vs. 100 you will still probably lose since the king has all trained men.   

Soldier Development

Soon enough your men will learn enough from battle to be upgraded.  You will need to pay them though, so that they may be able to buy the equipment required to take the new role.

 Example;  Nord recruit goes from a Nord recruit to a Nord foot man.  He will need 10-30 gold to be able to purchase a shield and sword.  Then Nord foot man will go from Nord foot man, to Nord Archer, or a Nord Skirmisher.. You choose the path with which you want them to train.   Either you want your end result to be a Nord knight or a Master Nord Archer.


Choose Your Alliance

After many successful battles you will acquire renown and honor.  When you acquire enough "Renown" you will be eligible to give your self to a "Faction or Alliance".  You will receive  benefits by joining a faction, one of which is the right to own towns and cities, also castles.  Now you'll only start out with one town till the king likes you enough to award you with newly conquered towns. You will also be able to marry royal blood and join in on war parties.  Being in a faction also gives you protection from the king and his noble men. When you join a faction you are a noble man.  Noble men are the kings right hand men and are allowed to do pretty much anything they want except attacking your factions home land.

Picture; Going to war with the king and his nobles

The numbers beside the characters are the number of men in there army

WAR

As you journey through the land you will notice factions going to war against each other. The game is ever changing, so you will never seen the towns owned by the same factions. When one faction goes to war with another its kinda like chess. They move into the enemy factions lands and begin to take towns, castle and cities.   Journeying into a hostile faction territory while at war could be traitorous and very dangerous. Being in a faction that is at war with another faction, then being in the enemy factions territory  will attract the enemy faction into attacking you. If your not prepared you could have your whole army slaughtered by the enemy faction.

 Losing a battle will result in almost all to all of your army being killed. You must run from a fight when you know your odds aren't in your favor. Some times you will have to leave 12 of your 70 men behind, so that you may have a chance to flee from the annihilation that is coming.


Other Activities


Now if your not one for war and murdering the farmers and merchants for money, you could always enter the tournament, earn money the legal and honorable way. Tournaments are held at castles, you may find out when there will be a tournament by asking in the tavern.  Talking with the tavern manager will give you a lot of information. He will tell you a lot of information about quests and other missions. Most people in the tavern are looking for work, as in military work.  These men aren't cheap though, some time you will pay up to 2,000 gold for 6 men instead of the usual 10 gold per man.  There is obviously a reason for the high price, almost always these mercenary for hire are highly trained men, ready for battle. Hiring all mercenary's will be a little pricey though. You will need to pay your men there weekly wages, if not they will abandon you eventually.  


Goods Trading

So if your not looting and stealing all your merchandise from farmers, towns, or merchants you can buy goods from towns, cities, and castles to be sold at other locations for good profit most times. This is one of the ways to play the game as a good legal noble man. 

Castles, Noble, Towns, and faction relationships

Almost everything you do will affect your relations with one of the above. This can have a good impact or a bad one. You will get cheaper goods if the town loves you or get protection from the farmers in battle if your close enough.  One time I was out numbered by 60 men and I knew I was completely screwed.. BUT!!!  to my rescue there is a near by town that hates the faction who is attacking me and they bring over a hundred men to my aid!       We won the battle and I only lost one of my men.  So you see how complex this game can be.   

Of course as stated above when you prove your self against a enemy faction, the king will accept you and dub you a noble knight of his faction and from then on out or until you choose you will fight under him. Personally I choose the Nords.


There is certainly more I have missed but I promise you will fall in love with this game instantly!!

I'm sorry to say this game isn't free. You can purchase it from the tale worlds web site or steam.


Mount&Blade War Band Receives a 5/5


Soldat

2d Shooters never felt so good


Soldat is a 2d side scroller online shooter. You can play off line but all the fun is online. Matchs consist of up to 16 to 32 players.



Multiplayer modes

  • Capture the flag
  • Team Death Match
  • Free For All (Death Mactch)
  • Zombie Matchs (Map name will tell you if it has zombies)
  • Rambo Match (one person gets a god like bow)
Weapons



Soldat is a fast paced action packed 2d side scrolling shooter. You may think at first it might not be worth your time, but I promise it is defintely worth the download. Considering you probably haven't seen anything like it, or maybe you have. This 2d side scroller isn't like the rest, it's fast paced and twitch shooter. It takes some master like skills to compete with some of the other players on here. 



Once you get some real skills you will be destroying every one in your path.  For noobs I'd say use the Mini Gun. Its a spray N pray heaven when using the mini gun. Your almost guarantee to get a kill when you wipe that damn thing out. You'll piss a lot of people off along the way too.


Soldat comes in at 3.75/5




The list is not finished!!  Come back for the other half. You won't be disappointed.  I've been working on this for the past 3 hours.. Time to rest. Thank you for the support, enjoy.