So as a fellow gamer I know we all love free games, provided they are fun of course. Well I have come across a free browser game called Ikariam.
The game plays out as a civilization builder where you populate a town on an island. You work you way up by gathering wood and one other resource that the island provides. Eventually you get the opportunity to start a colony on an island of your choice. Take care when choosing, because the primary reason for your decision is which alternate resource do you want. The decision is important since you wont be making another colony for some time.
Another great idea is to build up a city army for defense and upgrade your wall to keep the rabble from trying to take over. Over all the game is great and definitely worth trying if have 5 minutes of down time. It takes a while to build/upgrade things later so you can set it t build and log off (ie: the perfect game for work).
Let me know what you guys think, I believe you will be impressed.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Ikariam
Savage 2 Revealed...
So having spent some time with the demo of the game, which I felt was enough time to give this game a fair shake I have composed this little review of the game.
Obviously since the game is a little older now the graphics are a little dated compared to some of the newer games on the market, but having grown up in the Mario bros. era anything better is beautiful to me. From the limited time I had, getting into a local server was much harder than I had originally thought. It seems like there not as many people playing in the US as there are in say the UK. This lead to the actual full servers that I played on to be more sluggish than usual and did detract from the experience. The actual game play was interesting with the fusion of the RTS elements from the Commander and the FPS of the soldier view it was nothing short of an interesting experience to be sure.
The classes in the game were fun to play, interesting in their own way, and lead to some interesting little skirmishes in the midst of the big battle. Mid way throughout the game there were some demon classes unlocked by gathering souls and those were definitely the embodiment of destruction as they cleared armies of guys in their wake.
Overall I would say the game is definitely fun to play, but if you are big into the latest graphics you could do much better for the $29.99 price tag that comes with it. I would recommend people head to their website here and download the free demo which turns out to be about 5 hours of play time (meaning only when you are in a game) so you don't have to worry about wasting time in the lobbies.
My obligatory number score for this one is a 8/10 for their unique fusion of two pretty straight forward genres.
Obviously since the game is a little older now the graphics are a little dated compared to some of the newer games on the market, but having grown up in the Mario bros. era anything better is beautiful to me. From the limited time I had, getting into a local server was much harder than I had originally thought. It seems like there not as many people playing in the US as there are in say the UK. This lead to the actual full servers that I played on to be more sluggish than usual and did detract from the experience. The actual game play was interesting with the fusion of the RTS elements from the Commander and the FPS of the soldier view it was nothing short of an interesting experience to be sure.
The classes in the game were fun to play, interesting in their own way, and lead to some interesting little skirmishes in the midst of the big battle. Mid way throughout the game there were some demon classes unlocked by gathering souls and those were definitely the embodiment of destruction as they cleared armies of guys in their wake.
Overall I would say the game is definitely fun to play, but if you are big into the latest graphics you could do much better for the $29.99 price tag that comes with it. I would recommend people head to their website here and download the free demo which turns out to be about 5 hours of play time (meaning only when you are in a game) so you don't have to worry about wasting time in the lobbies.My obligatory number score for this one is a 8/10 for their unique fusion of two pretty straight forward genres.
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