Time for another roundup! Two pieces from Resolution to share, first up I look at the EGP Art Game theme where I talk to various indie stars about their EGP games and art games in general. I also interviewed Anthony De Sa Ferreira about the Toki remake.
Finally, on The Reticule I have reviewed King Arthur The Role-playing Game. link.
So a new year (bit late for that – ed) means it is time to get back to The Roundup, a once in a while collection of my writings, and occasionally a link to something else I think is really good.
First up, way back from the middle of November is my interview with DiRT 2’s Adam Askew. More recently I actually went ahead and reviewed said game.
I also gave Pro Evo 2010 a review and to bring us up to date is my interview with the guys behind Desura.
That is it, for now!
I’m back here on the blog! Been busy changing hosts over the past few days for something a bit more suitable, should be back with the Roundups soon.
Chris
Welcome to the second Roundup here on evo-gamer.com, I hope that people who read this find it useful to keep track of what I am writing and any other interesting bits and pieces I spot along the way.
Hit the jump and see what there is this week.
After the EU election results last night saw the BNP get two MEPs elected there was some Twitter chat, at one point Jim Rossignol said Perhaps the reason there isn’t a liberal, technology and media savvy party to vote for, is because no techno-liberals ever go into politics.
If you hit the jump you will find a ‘manifesto’ for what I think a techno-liberal party would stand for. Note this isn’t a real manifesto in any way, shape or form.
The_B has slaved away for hours to create the following video where he looks at the recently announced Scout Update for Team Fortress 2.
Warning: this video contains explo-cans
Browsing around some old folders on my laptop today I came across something from a few years back, this was known as ‘The PC Gamer Forum Project.’ Basically a group of people from the PC Gamer Forums and myself got together to try and start making a mod. We didn’t really do much, but I still have the introduction to the story. Well it was a cross between a story and something else. Read on to see it in all its’ glory.
Do you think that your MP needs some training on real world issues before they make a decision that will impact upon you? Cliff from Positech certainly thinks so. He is of the opinion that most politicians aren’t qualified for the job, but he has a remedy.
Cliff is offering a free copy of his political strategy game; Democracy 2, to any elected official, be they from the UK, US or anywhere else in the world. He hopes that politicians will get a copy of the game and practice doing their job in it, would this improve the current crop of bureaucrats though? I doubt it.
This is an interesting idea, it will worth waiting to see if this picks up any mainstream coverage, and to find out if any MPs take Cliff up on his offer.
After a long wait all you European World of Goo fans can now buy the game. It is available right now on Steam and amazon.de as well as a host of retail outlets. The game is retailing for €20 and Ron Carmel has said that they are looking at getting the game on the UK amazon site as well.
Find all the lovely information about the European release of World of Goo here.
First off the bat, Left 4 Dead is beyond awesome. I have just spent the best part of two hours with three of the guys from the RPS Steam Group playing through the demo levels on the Expert mode. It wasn’t until we finally managed to get to the safe room at the end of the second demo level that I realised how long we had been playing.
I was too busy playing and getting sucked into the game to take many screenshots, but those guys at Rock, Paper, Shotgun have some galleries of the game from their trip to Valve.
This game is just amazing in co-op mode, singleplayer is ok, but it has nothing on blasting through the hordes of zombies with three friends. They seriously are hordes, at times the AI Director will send what seems like thousands of zombies at you and will then throw in some Boss characters like the Boomer or Hunter.
When we were playing it was the Director that we talked about most, this thing is magnificent. It can build the tension so much just by keeping the opening areas of a level relatively clear of zombies. After the onslaught that we battled against so often in the opening rooms of the second demo level, to fail and start again in near total silence in freaky.
I won’t forget the moment when we entered the last but one chambers and heard the sobs of the Witch, we saw he sitting in the doorway blocking our path to the final battle. With three of us on very little health we decided to that the person with the most health would instigate the fight. It was quick and brutal, only two of us were left standing with 1 health a piece, we managed to force the Witch to retreat away from the level.
That was intense, and it was pure awesome. I can’t wait to get back to play this again tonight.