Game Review by Jonathan Tran
Game Rating = 3.5/5 Balls
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Take two parts Civilization, two parts The Sims, and one part Animal Crossing, and you’ll understand the fun and frustrations of Virtual Villagers 3: The Secret City.
Game Review by Sherri Bubb
Game Rating = 9/10 Balls
We won’t share the solar system, and the aliens are not impressed!
Harvest: Massive Encounter by Oxey Game Studio is a unique real-time strategy game which incorporates 2D fantasy. You are the base commander of a space colony deep within the galaxy, your job is to expand the colony while bravely defending it in every manner you can.
You have a selection of five building types. Now use these creatively, protect the colony, and fight hordes of evil aliens. Construct power plants, defense towers, and mineral harvesters. Supply them with adequate energy to fend off the evil intruders. There are a plethora of strategies on offer which will see you facing the greatest battle ever fought.
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How does one define tedium? King Mania could well be the way. The premise and promise were there but the execution, well off with their heads! 300AD is the group behind this decidedly dull release through Reflexive. It does nothing at all to advance strategy gaming and may aid in decreasing insomnia.
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“Chocolatier 2: Secret Ingredients”, a sequel to the game “Chocolatier”, has a storyline that takes place in the 1920s. You’re an industrialist of chocolate manufacturing. You start with one factory in San Francisco, California and the object of the game is to become a successful entrepreneur and own factories all over the world.
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Depths of Peril is a great little gem in the world of indie games. You start off by picking one of the stock classes (fighter for fighting, rogue for sneaking ect.) Then you are thrown into a rather lengthy but informative tutorial before embarking on your quest to become leader of a small village before one of the other convents obtain the title. The game is easy to play but has enough depth to keep you interested long after the trial period.
Band Of Bugs is a breath of fresh air. After downloading the free trial, several members of my family had fun playing the trail version and are begging for more. At $14.95 for the full version, it may not be out of reach of our pocketbooks.
Master of Defense By Voodoo Dimention 4/5 Balls
Does your therapist tell you that you get defensive a lot? Does this make you defensive? Do you scream “De-fense De-fense De-fense” in your sleep during football (American Style) season? Well have we got a game for you. In Master of Defense by Voodoo Dimention you are the hero defending your people from hords of monsters nastier and uglier than the Lord of the Rings demons and goblins.
How do you defend your legions of loyal townspeople? You build various kinds of defensive towers and place them in strategic locations between the monsters and your townsfolk. You can build three kinds of towers: one that defends against both ground and air attacks, one that defends against air attacks only and one that defends against ground attacks only. You are able to buy upgrades to each of the individual towers. You are forced to choose between upgrading existing towers and or building new ones. The game also equips the hero with magical spells designed to harm if not kill the bad bad bad monsters. Voodoo Dimention has created a fun creative original game which challenges the player forcing him/her to think strategically. Try it now. Come on you know you want to. Everyone’s doing it. Just one puff.
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Game Play: 4/5
Graphics: 3/5
Sound: 3/5
Overall 4/5
“Kudos Rock Legend” is, in a very short and pensive word, addictive. The game has a very simple premise: create a band and make it famous. Not exactly a captivating premise, however, the execution of the game makes it incredibly fun.
As with every other simulation game, you are dictating the decisions and carving out your own story. The game starts out fairly easy. The mechanics of the game are simple to learn and simple to pick up, it just requires a bit of reading. The tutorial hints that pop-up are very useful. They usually tell you when you have achieved something and what it leads to, and what you have to do given the situation you are in.
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One of the first objectives of the game is to hold auditions for additional band members. There are positions you have to fill, including: keyboard, drums, bass, guitar, and, oddly enough, saxophone. Each time you choose to hold an audition you are presented with people of varying talents and varying character traits, each aiding and hurting the group in a variety of ways. If you get a photogenic person, when they appear on TV, you get a lot more notoriety, or if you get a destructive person, you will find yourself paying hundreds of dollars to make up for his reckless behavior. After you set up your band you are able to create songs so that you may play them during gigs or compile them into a CD (for a hefty sum). The higher the quality of your songs, the better fans will enjoy your performances and buy your CDs.
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The greatest challenge the game presented for me was to juggle the billion problems the game presented. Fixing them is an easy remedy, but to fix them while not being a detriment to the other factors is a hassle. I often find myself deciding if I should let my musicians rest or rehearse for a show, but if I rehearse for the show, I will not get to go to another band’s concert so I can gain some inspiration for creating songs, but if I do that, I will not be able to do an internet interview to help the band gain notoriety, and so on and so forth; confusing and tedious, but enjoyable. The game consistently kicks me to the ground with seemingly impossible obstacles to overcome, but I cannot help but keep coming back.
The visual design of the game is pleasing but nothing extraordinary; simple shapes with various bevels and color gradients make a UI that serves its purpose. The music is good but lacks variety. You listen to one song throughout the entire game and it is not a complete song, rather a repetitive melody and vocal. You would think that a game oriented around music, would provide a better melodious experience.
This game is worth its buck. I find myself captivated by the game and time seemed to fly by as I was transfixed by the games addictive nature. Despite the mediocre visuals and sound, it is a truly good buy.
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Zero G Game published Kudos Rock Legend
When I first heard the title of the game “Virtual Villagers 2” published by Big Fish Games, I thought that I was going to be playing simulation game similar to that of “Sim City”. I was not expecting playing a game more in line with the 90’s craze Tamagachi. Not that I was not a big fan of Tamagachi, as I, sadly, did have several Tamagachi pets of my own.
The story is that these people wandered and got lost in this village of lost children. It is now your goal to keep them alive and figure out the mystery of the village. The learning curve on the game is fairly easy thanks to the tutorial tips that flash across the screen when you first play; if these did not exist, everyone would probably be digging their own graves. You dictate these people’s lives by clicking and dragging them on to various intractable objects on screen. If you were to put them in the water, they would begin to fish, or if you put them next to a broken building, they would begin to repair it. As they perform these tasks such as fishing or repairing, they would gain proficiency in these areas.
The game was very enjoyable until I realized that the game kept going after you leave. I often times do not visit my computer for days at a time, and when I do, I do not exactly remember if I should check back or not. The game is not very forgiving ignoring your villagers and often times, I find myself deprived of people due to famine. I have to frequently check back every 6 hours to make the village is fine and appoint new tasks for people already finished with the current task. I really wish the villagers were smart enough to move onto new tasks themselves while I am away because it really becomes tedious when the village is starving and no one can figure out to for themselves that, possibly, they should start fishing or picking coconuts for food.
The progress of the game for new comers is a lot of trial and error. If I were to put this guy onto of this flower, I wonder what will happen. If you fail the first time, you should try several more times to see if something is going to happen. Seems the error rate for discovering new things is rather high. I have had to try several times with a villager before he knew how to fish properly.
Graphically the game is sound for what it is. I have seen more aesthetically pleasing games with the same memory size, 33 Mb, but this game makes good use with what it has. They use simplistic sprite driven animation upon a simple static background, but there are some nice subtle touches of visual flair, such as shadows under the characters, sparkles in the water, and rings that form when a character touches the water. The music is very nice, soft and subtle, and complementing to the overall theme of the game which is primitive and tribal.
I would recommend this game for someone who has 20$ to spare and find themselves in need of a game to simply pass the time. There is also a need for diligence in the player because abandoning your village for too long will result in their utter doom
3/5 Balls
