Magicka: Vietnam
(PC) An expansion to the action-adventure fantasy game. Like the original, you play as a wizard using his sorcerous might to battle hordes of foes, except that instead of the original's Norse myth-inspired fantasy world you're in... Vietnam.
Remember a few months ago, when I referred to Kingdom Hearts as the “Game Premise Most Likely to Have Been Originally Conceived at 3:00 AM By People Sitting In a Huge Cloud of Marijuana Smoke”? I don't think Magicka: Vietnam displaces the current title holder, but the contest is sort of the first Rocky Balboa-Apollo Creed bout of bizarre video game premises: Magicka: Vietnam doesn't win, but it gives the champion a run for his money and proves it has what it takes to go the distance.
(PC) An expansion to the action-adventure fantasy game. Like the original, you play as a wizard using his sorcerous might to battle hordes of foes, except that instead of the original's Norse myth-inspired fantasy world you're in... Vietnam.
Remember a few months ago, when I referred to Kingdom Hearts as the “Game Premise Most Likely to Have Been Originally Conceived at 3:00 AM By People Sitting In a Huge Cloud of Marijuana Smoke”? I don't think Magicka: Vietnam displaces the current title holder, but the contest is sort of the first Rocky Balboa-Apollo Creed bout of bizarre video game premises: Magicka: Vietnam doesn't win, but it gives the champion a run for his money and proves it has what it takes to go the distance.
World of Tanks
(PC) Massively multiplayer online team-based action game built around tank combat, featuring American, Russian, and German armored vehicles from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. I'm not into MMOs, but what I've read about it sounds pretty cool. It's just unfortunate that the game has a name that makes it sound like a place you'd find at the mall between Spencer's Gifts and one of those fancy scented soap stores I go to when I need to buy a female friend or relative a present and can't think of anything else.
Yar's Revenge
(Xbox Live Arcade) I was sort of hoping that this would be about Tasha Yar from Star Trek: The Next Generation somehow returning to have a rematch with that evil talking oil slick that killed her in the first season, but no such luck. Instead, it's a remake of an action game for the Atari 2600. More specifically, it's a remake of an action game for the Atari 2600 that was programmed by the same guy who programmed the legendary E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial for the same system. To be fair, the original Yar's Revenge was reputedly much better than E.T., though being better than a game so universally abhorred that millions of unsold copies were encased in concrete and buried in the desert like nuclear waste or the dead-but-dreaming corporeal vessel of some malevolent elder god isn't a terribly exacting standard.
(PC) Massively multiplayer online team-based action game built around tank combat, featuring American, Russian, and German armored vehicles from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. I'm not into MMOs, but what I've read about it sounds pretty cool. It's just unfortunate that the game has a name that makes it sound like a place you'd find at the mall between Spencer's Gifts and one of those fancy scented soap stores I go to when I need to buy a female friend or relative a present and can't think of anything else.
Yar's Revenge
(Xbox Live Arcade) I was sort of hoping that this would be about Tasha Yar from Star Trek: The Next Generation somehow returning to have a rematch with that evil talking oil slick that killed her in the first season, but no such luck. Instead, it's a remake of an action game for the Atari 2600. More specifically, it's a remake of an action game for the Atari 2600 that was programmed by the same guy who programmed the legendary E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial for the same system. To be fair, the original Yar's Revenge was reputedly much better than E.T., though being better than a game so universally abhorred that millions of unsold copies were encased in concrete and buried in the desert like nuclear waste or the dead-but-dreaming corporeal vessel of some malevolent elder god isn't a terribly exacting standard.
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