Dungeons

Fellow gamers,

Gameplay from Dungeons

My curiosity was peaked when I saw a game on Steam called "Dungeons". Dungeons is a game where you play as a maniacal dungeon lord who lures brave adventurers to his dungeon and then captures and tortures them so that he can use their gold and spirit to add to his dungeon. Think of this game as SimCity meets an RTS, but instead of building a city you build a dungeon.

I was all excited to play this game as it looked interesting and similar to the type of games that I like to play. The intro level is pretty simplistic with lots of text, which I hate... You are able to control your dungeon lord and he is able to fight adventurers, which you will be doing a lot of in the first few levels because your monsters are worthless until you can level them up in later levels. You also get goblins as henchmen who will do your bidding, but will not attack any of the adventurers. You lure adventurers to your dungeon by planting loot in strategic positions that make them wander into your dungeon and then use monsters and traps to incapacitate them so that your goblins can throw them into cages to be tortured.

The interface feels a bit clunky and un-intuitive. I had trouble casting spells because I was unsure if I had to target anything or just click them and the game does not make this obvious to you. Overall, I had trouble playing this game and it wasn't until I was a few hours or so into the game that I was finally grasping the interface.

I think it's a neat concept, but I'm saving my money and not buying this game...

Dead Space 2

Fellow gamers,

Hopefully I will be picking up Dead Space 2 this weekend. I was a huge fan of the first game and with it's bargain bin pricing I see no reason as to why everyone hasn't played this game. Very few games nowadays keep me motivated and moving along with the story, but with Dead Space I couldn't put down the controller. I even played the game a second time on the hardest difficulty setting. The weapons in the first game were excellent and while Issac's character in the first game wasn't that compelling, I hear that his character is fleshed out deeper in the second one. I cannot wait to pick up the second game and play through it. I'll have a more in-depth article once I play through it.

Also the ads for Dead Space 2 are genius. I have seen a lot more people interested in this game just because of seeing those ads on television.