The New Flesh

Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood is undoubtedly one of the most visually impress 3D indie games I’ve ever seen. It also plays pretty well, sounds pretty good, seems technically solid and has it’s own fairly unique style and yet none of that can save it.

I can’t shake the feeling that this is big. The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition is more than just a game, more than just a port of an old game onto modern computers, a paradigm for the future of video game preservation, that LucasArts has made the move to produce this game may ultimately prove as important as the Abandonware movement, Good Old Games or DOSbox. Right now it’s an amusement but culturally this is a big step forward. Also as a game it freakin’ rocks.

I admit it, I’m not very good at real-time strategy games. Actually that’s probably a little misleading, it’s probably more accurate to say I’m really bad at RTS games. Pretty much every game I’ve failed to complete because it was too difficult to be fun was a real-time strategy and I’ve failed to finish pretty much every real-time strategy game (of course I never play on easy mode, I still have my pride). I don’t really know why, they’re just a mystery to me, I think I know what I should do and I try to but then somehow it all falls apart in the execution. I generally put this down to purely a lack of skill on my part but after today I’m inclined to think the whole damn genre is plotting against me.

Blueberry Garden is a lovely game, there’s no other word for it, lovely. It’s also small yet perfectly formed.

Have you ever dreamed of driving really fast down every road on Oahu? No, me neither, but that’s what I’ve been doing virtually in my spare time these last few days in Test Drive Unlimited.