This is part two of my ongoing series of diaries from the world of Champions Online, written in character as The Exclamation. This week, fresh from his victory over the Qularr, Ex is sent to Canada to help the armoured mounties defeat a strange zombie invasion brought about by a sudden and dangerous storm. He is not amused.
The following article is the first part of a series of diaries coming from the world of Champions Online, written in character or course. There may even be the odd comic in the future.
It was my Day of Defeat, I loaded up Valve’s Source based World War Two shooter and promptly died. A lot. In my defence I am a bit out of practice with playing Day of Defeat as I haven’t played this great game for many, many moons. You can put this down to the fact that when I initially played the game I was plagued by the infamous ‘stuttering’ bug which was a common occurance in Source games a few…
December 1939 The bleak position the Axis powers and the Shah in particular faced at the outset of December could only mean for a total strategic rethink, and despite their successes, the Allied war machine too appeared to need to take stock of the situation, offering a month of respite and reorganization.
With October’s successes hinting at a subtly precarious situation, can the Axis forces and Iran keep up the pace?
Here’s part 2 of my Hearts of Iron 3 Campaign Diary, detailing October 1939. We see an Italian blitzkrieg dominating Western affairs, while the forces of Carton de Wiart; a low ranking, but obstinate British division commander prove every bit as wily and stubborn as his grizzled reputation suggests.
With Hearts of Iron 3 proving to be such a leviathan game, I decided to accompany our verdict of it with a long term campaign diary to demonstrate how a full play of the campaign could turn out, and have a laugh a long the way.
Open world games are ‘in’ right now and they are becoming ever more popular in the racing game genre. I am talking about Fuel and Burnout Paradise, two open world racers that take very different approaches to the concept. Fuel places you in a truly massive world based on the west coast of America, one which has been destroyed by the effects of global warming, Burnout puts you in Paradise City a much smaller but altogether more lively environment than…
With certain new games set for release at ever higher prices, while others (such as Men of War) have a distinctly lower price point and regular sales, it seems time (as ever, I suppose though) to think about what games should cost. Rather than blathering on in an opinionated fashion, I did a little survey, firing off a short list of questions to a section of The Reticule’s eminent friends in development to see what they thought about it.
I died. I had just reached the shingle on Omaha beach when a bullet from an MG42 took away the last 4 bits of health I had. I was devastated, after clawing my way through the sea, past the obstacles and up the beach I saw safety, just to have it taken away at the last moment. What was even more galling was the fact that I had completed my objective of getting to the shingle, though it wasn’t enough…