Nikolaj has started a Battles from the Bulge AAR with the Elseborn Ridge scenario. It’s a great read and well illustrated and if you’re interested in BFTB I recommend having a read. Nikolaj does a great job of explaining what he’s doing, why, and where it’s going right (or wrong!). I just wish the damn game wasn’t so expensive!
Ever wanted to play a game where you and your friends control all the consoles on a spaceship’s bridge, while engaging hostile enemies in deepest, darkest space? If you’re like me, you’ve probably designed such a game in your head and wished someone would make it. Well, someone has! Enter Artemis, a “spaceship bridge simulator”. Up to six players can take the role of Captain, Helm, Weapons, Science, Engineering, and Comms (though only two players are absolutely required) and if you grab Artemis you can sit around a LAN party, or over the internet, and destroy enemy fleets. It’s only in the early stags of development, but its worth keeping an eye on.
If you want to get a feel for the game then check out these dedicated fans and their projector (skip to about 3 minutes in to see everything in action).
In our previous exploration of Homeland Defense: National Security Patrol, we explored the freeplay mode, beat up an old lady, and went broke. So far, so like the Federal Government, amiright? Hoho!
Today we’re going to check out a challenge, specifically, keeping the illegals from crossing the border! You see, those dumb foreigners have got themselves into a civil war and now some of them have the audacity to hope that the US will come to their rescue! But they are mistaken! We are going to be working as hard as possible to keep them out of America.
Yesterday I promised an AAR for a curious RTS game about running a US border post. The game, Homeland Defense: National Security Patrol, is a Valusoft title released in 2008 and now available for a few dollars over at Impulse. And since I promised, here it is, and everyone better be grateful, because this has been a painful, painful experience.
The game can be summed up easily. It’s Command and Conquer meets a Tea Party rally. It’s an RTS (although a terrible one) where your job is to stare at your border post ensuring your border agents vigilantly check everyone crossing the border for drugs, lack of legal entry permits or shock, the chance they are a terrorist. If you catch one of these ne’er-do-wells, you throw them in your detention center and interrogate some justice into them.
Or you could just tase them to death.
So goes the final line of one of the two reviews for “Homeland Defense: National Security Patrol” on Amazon.com, or as I will call it from now on, HDNSP. Rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?
HDNSP is a title that see the player “Plan, construct, staff and maintain border command centers, conduct city patrols and engage in anti- smuggling investigations.” You also get to experience the fun of “interrogat[ing] detainees to gain information about [the] future plans of smugglers or terrorists seeking to harm America”… because “illegals” are not all drug smugglers after all, they could be terrorists, right?
I noticed this game when it was brought up on QuarterToThree.com and being the sap that I am I volunteered to check out this little-known title from 2008. Not only that, I would write up my experiences on this site, so you to can join in on the fun of arresting brown people, building detention centres and interogating folks!
The game is installed, my mouse hand trembles in anticipation. Watch this space.
ServantCorps, who previously posted an AAR for the old game Conflict:MEPS, is now revisiting another old game, Hidden Agenda. Read along as he tries to subvert a game about rebuilding a banana republic in his “Lets Horribly Break Hidden Agenda” Lets Play!
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