Some cool games
Just posting to list some cool games I've found recently, in order from cheap to not-so-cheap.
DoodleJump: iPhone game for $1. Cute graphics, instantly accessible gameplay. Very fun. Just title left and right to get the dude to land on the platforms to keep jumping higher. You lose if you hit the bottom of the screen without landing on a platform first.
dotdotdot: iPhone game for $2. Very nice graphic presentation, challenging, fun, short. These are good things to have in an iPhone game. Just tilt the phone left and right to line up the ball with the slot so it can go down to the next layer. But each successive layer has a different center point, and may or may not be reversed.
Orbital: iPhone (version I'm playing) is $2. Good graphics, very clever design. Launch balls into the playfield from the bottom; when they stop, they grow until they touch something. Balls have a 3 on them. Each time you hit an existing ball with your shot, the number goes down. At zero, it pops and you get a point. If the ball bounces back to where you shoot from, you lose.
Greed Corp: PSN/XBox Live game for $10. Nicely presented turn-based strategy game. Its core element is greed and decay. It's fundamentally about capturing all the territory on the map. But the Harvesters that give you $2 per hex they touch also destroy those hexes and ultimately. themselves. If you try to preserve land to have room to maneuver, your opponents will destroy their own for money and come steal yours. It's 1-4 player, and supports both local and network play.
Mushroom Wars: PS3 game for $10. This is mainly a simple single-player RTS. It's cute and fun. There is a 2-player offline version which is fun, but there are only 6 maps. This game has some of the best graphic design I've seen in a video game. My wife, who is a graphic designer, says it's like a breath of fresh air in the jungle of video game graphics. But she likes stuff like Rez and Eufloria, so that's hardly surprising. She's right though. :)
Heavy Rain: PS3 game for $60. I'm not generally someone who likes narrative games. I find the narrative gets in the way of the gameplay. A notable exception is God Of War, which is very gameplay heavy and just happens to have excellent cut-scenes. Heavy Rain is a narrative game with very sparse Dragon's Lair-style gameplay where the focus of the game is the narrative. I don't feel the narrative gets in the way of the gameplay in this game because the narrative is the gameplay. I'm not very far in yet, but so far I've enjoyed it a lot.
Well, that's all for now.
DoodleJump: iPhone game for $1. Cute graphics, instantly accessible gameplay. Very fun. Just title left and right to get the dude to land on the platforms to keep jumping higher. You lose if you hit the bottom of the screen without landing on a platform first.
dotdotdot: iPhone game for $2. Very nice graphic presentation, challenging, fun, short. These are good things to have in an iPhone game. Just tilt the phone left and right to line up the ball with the slot so it can go down to the next layer. But each successive layer has a different center point, and may or may not be reversed.
Orbital: iPhone (version I'm playing) is $2. Good graphics, very clever design. Launch balls into the playfield from the bottom; when they stop, they grow until they touch something. Balls have a 3 on them. Each time you hit an existing ball with your shot, the number goes down. At zero, it pops and you get a point. If the ball bounces back to where you shoot from, you lose.
Greed Corp: PSN/XBox Live game for $10. Nicely presented turn-based strategy game. Its core element is greed and decay. It's fundamentally about capturing all the territory on the map. But the Harvesters that give you $2 per hex they touch also destroy those hexes and ultimately. themselves. If you try to preserve land to have room to maneuver, your opponents will destroy their own for money and come steal yours. It's 1-4 player, and supports both local and network play.
Mushroom Wars: PS3 game for $10. This is mainly a simple single-player RTS. It's cute and fun. There is a 2-player offline version which is fun, but there are only 6 maps. This game has some of the best graphic design I've seen in a video game. My wife, who is a graphic designer, says it's like a breath of fresh air in the jungle of video game graphics. But she likes stuff like Rez and Eufloria, so that's hardly surprising. She's right though. :)
Heavy Rain: PS3 game for $60. I'm not generally someone who likes narrative games. I find the narrative gets in the way of the gameplay. A notable exception is God Of War, which is very gameplay heavy and just happens to have excellent cut-scenes. Heavy Rain is a narrative game with very sparse Dragon's Lair-style gameplay where the focus of the game is the narrative. I don't feel the narrative gets in the way of the gameplay in this game because the narrative is the gameplay. I'm not very far in yet, but so far I've enjoyed it a lot.
Well, that's all for now.
posted by Almo at 7:36 PM
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