Having had a little negative feedback on ‘The Majesty of Colors’ (you know who you are, you philistines) I’ve got a more traditional offering for you to start the week’s distraction. Angelico looks like it’s been ported straight from the Neo Geo – the cartoony graphics and exotic-cheroot vividity of the colours fairly make my palms itch for the feel of a joystick; I hear the tinkle of copper into the tray of the Penny Falls and wonder when I’ll have the courage to face the zombies in Altered Beast again…
Ahem. Where was I? Oh yes – so you’re Eros, or Cupid running your little winged butt off to get everybody together and making a little love before the sun goes down, by shooting them with arrows from your little bow. I was almost convinced by making the mad doctor fall in love with the jiggling nurse, but as so often before, it was the goat that clinched it for me.
Click here to make a Goatherd very happy <3
3D Paradise Paintball is the latest development in gaming via SNS. It has been presented by the Chinese company Cmune who develop games and applications for social networks. 3D Paradise Paintball has been listed in the top 5 Apple Widgets and the company have been awarded ‘Start-up of the day’ by Microsoft.
The game itself is a first person shoot ‘em up. It surprised me in many ways as being much more advanced than I had expected. The 3D rendering, map sizes and designs rival those of early millenium top-end development releases of the same genre, which, in my opinion, is already a triumph for a free online based and hosted game.
I was also impressed by the loading time, I was expecting to have to download a series of random plug-ins and watch a progress bar for the next 30 minutes, but even this ‘hunk of junk’ desktop of mine was in-game within 3 minutes.
All this mechanical and technical effort is let down slightly be some actual game play issues. The rather strange avatars leave something to be desired and I found it difficult to differentiate between friendlies and enemies at a glance.
The absolute, most important aspect of an FPS, for me, is the hitbox activity, which unfortunately seemed almost non existent. I mean, every time I actually managed to hit another player, I would decrease their health by the same value where ever the shot landed (apart from maybe the head, its quite difficult to tell where you hit). On another occasion I wasted several shots trying to ‘pwn’ this ‘n00b’ that was running away from me, despite my cross-hair landing perfectly in the guy’s back for at least 10 shots, I failed every attempt. Years of gaming experience would suggest to try shooting slightly ahead of the character to account for ‘bullet time’ but this too was without success. Truth is, I just couldn’t work out (bearing in mind I only had the chance to play for a short while) where, how and what affects the hit-boxes. But hey, its not like its trying to be Call of Duty or CS:S is it.
Overall, 3D Paradise Paintball is years ahead of it’s ‘Flash’ game competition and will only improve on their next project. I have every confidence that the Cmune team will be big news in years to come. Good job guys.
3D Paradise Paintball
How appropriate for this website is this game? It features both bunnies and inappropriate amounts of violence, death and other jollity. Buy guns, upgrades and generally pimp yourself out in the face of a long-eared, twitchy nosed apocalypse.
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This is one of the best and smoothest RTS games that I’ve seen in a while – reminiscent of Homeworld, if you stripped it down to a tower defence game. You have no mobile units, but build a resource collection and base defence network, all hooked in to your power generation and storage grid. There’s nothing crazily innovative about this game, but it’s such a well executed iteration of this type that it really deserves playing. There are bonus modes available if you register over at the Casual Collective website, and they have some other quite slick looking projects up there. Missile turrets are a good bet until the little yellow ring ships turn up, when you’ll need big lasers… Enjoy!
Description: Take to the road with your super-cool, leaping Lambo – Jumpin Ride!! You’ll need quick fingers and quick reflexes to get anywhere in this game. Go as fast as you can and jump over of those feeble hatchbacks that are in your way. You may need to slow down if your path is blocked by rows of cars. so use your head too!
Description: Click on squares to cycle through colors/values until rows and columns add to totals shown.
Instructions: You are presented with colored squares in a 4×4 grid. Click on the squares to cycle through their colors. Each color has a value which can be found in the color key to the right. The goal of this puzzle is to get each row and column to add to the totals shown.
Control Scheme:
* fire: enter
* movement: mouse
