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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.
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.
