Games!

[andygates]

It's raining and horrid out there, so I'm in hiding.  Two games that might amuse in the gaps between shredding up Guitar Hero (top tips: ZZ Top sunglasses really do help; doing windmills really doesn't):

First, WolfQuest, which I guess is an EverQuest mod.  You get to play a wolf.  Go you!  Highlights apparently include marking your territory, so get ready with that 'piss on a tree trunk' action that I know you've been hankering for like Doom players hanker for the BFG.  Well, it might amuse the wolf-fetishists out there.

Second and much more weighty is the little Flash game September 12.  The premise is simple: you've got a god's-eye view of a marketplace milling with civilians and a few terrorists.  If you kill a civilian, the next few civilians who find the body will turn into terrorists.  It plays out rather like a zombie sim, as you'd expect.  But because of the context, I found it really touching.  The simplest outcome is a blasted Gaza mess of rubble teeming with bad guys.  If you find a little knot of terrorists and lob a shell, the random milling means that there's a fair chance of the shell clobbering some little kid... whose family then turn up, weep at his feet and turn into more terrorists.  I'm yelling "no! that's not what I wanted at all!" and resenting the stupid brat for getting in my ammo's way... it's more of a poem than a game.

Comments

[teahisme.livejournal.com]

If you have a desire to run around a game as a wolf and pee on things, you should try Okami. It is a great PS2 game, one of the last made by Clover Studios. Really it is maybe my favorite PS2 game ever and it has almost nothing to do with the peeing or the wolfness.

http://www.capcom.com/okami/

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Oh, I do, I do - I'm waiting eagerly for the Wii port!