So this is interesting. The game studio Amplitude released a cinematic teaser for Endless Space 2 earlier this week, and Endless Space just so happens to be one of the best grand strategy games set in space ever to be made. Guess what else was really good? Endless Legend. And Dungeon of the Endless was, from what I have heard, also pretty damn good. As far as teasers go, it's pretty but also pretty damn nondescript. Check it out for yourself:
"What if I could begin again?"
Oh, like with a sequel to your game? Clever.
Right, clearly no information to be had there, right? Just some pretty CGI and ethereal voice overs. Some snippets of a soothing soundtrack. But wait! If you act now, there's more!
Door Kickers is a lovely little indie title that I fear might have passed many a gamers by without much notice. It's the sort of title that lends itself perfectly to both PC and Tablet/Mobile gaming thanks to a perfectly executed UI and crisp, clear 2D graphics. Someone really ought to give it some well-deserved attention, don't you think?
"You rang?"
Door Kickers is a real-time tactical SWAT simulator with free pause from KillHouse Games. In it, you take control of a SWAT team and fight your way through meth-cooking apartments, hostage-littered office locales and pimped out drug lord yachts, all using a combination of real-time maneuvres and intricate planning while paused. You can choose between single missions of various difficulty or several campaigns with tiered missions and full, XP-driven squad control. Everything is top-down, extremely intuitive and it's a hoot to play.
Why? Why didn't they name it that? It's, like... right... there!
I realise I'm a little late on the ball here, but I simply can't wait for this behemoth to ruin my (already non-existent) social life. I mean, it's Total War and it's frickin' Warhammer, all baked into one delicious gaming cake. It's Total War: Medieval with orcs and fire wizards. It's the ultimate arm-seat general meets the place where it's always raining and you're there. It's taking a dump and eating at the same time (No? Just me?). What could possibly go wrong?`
I'm not a big fan of competitive multiplayer, so it's rare for me to find such a game that I truly enjoy. There's something about the genre that just irks me. Maybe it's the (often) heavy focus on APM; the art of flailing your hands around like an epileptic going for the mother of all seizures, or maybe I'm just too old to withstand the pressures of an amphetamine-fuelled competition. To me, most competitive RTS games rely far too much on speed and quick decision making, and not nearly enough on slowly building momentum and the stroking of beards. But in the upcoming wall street-in-space simulator Offworld Trading Company, I might just have found what I'm looking for.
