Game Resume

04 September 2009

Power Grid

Power Grid is the updated release of the Friedemann Friese crayon game Funkenschlag. The latest cooperative publishing effort from Friedemann Friese and Rio Grande Games, removes the crayon aspect from network building in the original edition while retaining the fluctuating commodities market like McMulti and an auction round intensity reminiscent of The Princes of Florence.

The object of Power Grid is to supply the most cities with power when someone's network gains a predetermined size. In this new edition, players mark pre-existing routes between cities for connection, and then bid against each other to purchase the power plants that they use to power their cities.
However, as plants are purchased, newer more efficient plants become available, so by merely purchasing you're potentially allowing others access to superior equipment.
Additionally, players must acquire the raw materials (coal, oil, garbage and uranium) needed to power said plants (except for the 'renewable' windfarm/ solar plants which require no fuel), making it a constant struggle to upgrade your plants for maximum efficiency while still retaining enough wealth to quickly expand your network to get the cheapest routes.

Pandemic

You are specialists at the CDC/Atlanta where you watch several virulent diseases break out simultaneously all over the world. The team mission is to prevent a world-wide pandemic outbreak, treating hotspots while researching cures for each of the four plagues before they get out of hand.

Players must plan their strategy to mesh their specialist's strengths before the diseases overwhelm the world. For example, the Operations Specialist can build research stations, which are needed to find cures for the diseases. The Scientist needs only 4 cards of a particular disease to cure it instead of the normal 5. But the diseases are breaking out fast and time is running out: the team must try to stem the tide of infection in diseased areas while developing cures. If disease spreads uncontrolled, the players all lose. If they can cure all four diseases, they win.
The board shows earth with some big population centres. On each turn a player can use four actions to travel, cure, discover and build. Cards are used for this but the deck also contains Epidemics...

Arkham Horror

Arkham Horror is a cooperative adventure game themed around H.P Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Players choose from 16 Investigators and take to the streets of Arkham.
Before the game, one of the eight Ancient Ones is chosen and it's up to the Investigators to prevent it from breaking into our world.

During the course of the game, players will upgrade their characters by acquiring skills, allies, items, weapons, and spells. It's up to the players to clean out the streets of Arkham by fighting many different types of monsters, but their main goal is to close portals to other dimensions that are opening up around town. With too many portals open the Ancient One awakens and the players only have one last chance to save the world. Defeat the Ancient One in combat!

04 May 2009

Agricola

In Agricola, you're a farmer in a wooden shack with your spouse and little else. On a turn, you get to take only two actions, one for you and one for the spouse, from all the possibilities you'll find on a farm: collecting clay, wood, or stone; building fences; and so on. You might think about having kids in order to get more work accomplished, but first you need to expand your house. And what are you going to feed all the little rugrats?

The rules include a beginner's version and an advanced version.
Agricola is a turn-based game. There are 14 game turns plus 6 harvest phases (after turn 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 14).
Each player starts with two playing tokens (farmer and wife) and thus can take two actions per turn. There are multiple options, and while the game progresses, you'll have more and more: first thing in a turn, a new action card is flipped over.
Problem: Each action can be taken just once per turn, so it's important to do some things with high preference.
Each player also starts with a hand of 7 job cards (of more than 160 total) and 7 item cards (of more than 140 total) that he/she may use during the game if they fit in his/her strategy. Speaking of: there are countless strategies, some depending on your card hand. Sometimes it's a good choice to stay on course and sometimes it is better to react to your opponents actions.

Dominion

In Dominion, each player starts with an identical,
very small deck of cards. In the center of the table is a selection of other cards the players can "buy" as they can afford them.
Through their selection of cards to buy, and how they play their hands as they draw them, the players construct their deck on the fly, striving for the most efficient path to the precious victory points by game end.

From the back of the box: "You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion! In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and feodums. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people, uniting them under your banner."

"But wait! It must be something in the air; several other monarchs have had the exact same idea. You must race to get as much of the unclaimed land as possible, fending them off along the way. To do this you will hire minions, construct buildings, spruce up your castle, and fill the coffers of your treasury. Your parents wouldn't be proud, but your grandparents would be delighted."

Dominion is not a CCG, but the play of the game is similar to the construction and play of a CCG deck. The game comes with 500 cards. You select 10 of the 25 Kingdom card types to include in any given play -- leading to immense variety.

30 March 2009

Private Nurse

Young Hiroki has been sick all his life. His father died when he was small, and his mother is away from home for weeks on end.
Though he thinks of himself as a man among men, Hiroki has always had to depend on his friend, Ayano. She grew up with Hiroki and loves to take care of him.

One day, Hiroki's mom calls and tells him, "I'm going to hire a 'private nurse' for you!" Hiroki strongly objects, but she hangs up without listening.
He doesn't even know what a "private nurse" is!

Soon after, Hiroki hears a knock at his door. He opens it to find a girl in an outlandish costume standing there.
"Hi, I'm Maria. I'm your private nurse," she gently smiles and tells him.
She'll be moving in with him for one month to cure his illness. As Hiroki tries to throw her out, his long-time friend Ayano watches with mixed feelings.

Will Maria cure Hiroki's never-ending battle in a month? What kind of treatment will she use? Will Ayano just quietly watch and do nothing? Come and experience the intrigue as Hiroki turns Maria into his private sexual teacher! Come be healed with Hiroki in this classic bishoujo game from G-Collections.

G-Collections, original game by Angle Smile/CD-Bros.
Private Nurse is a dramatic multi-scenario love-sim for Windows that explores the nature of love and devotion in the household.
You play the interactive game by moving through the story and making choices that affect the outcome, allowing for many different potential endings and excellent replay value.
The game features the original Japanese voices along with an accurate English translation.
This game is 100% uncensored.

Perfect World

Perfect World is the first MMORPG that presents a "create-a-world" theme to its players.

Create your in-game look-alike with the full customization character creation system! Fly, trek
and swim to battle in your powerful summons and mountable beasts! And more world-class features!

World Of KungFu

It's a genesis process based on Chinese traditional martial culture.
Fairy Village is called by Masters as village of nothing.
It's through a process from chaos to richness.
Peach blossom is the representation of Chinese traditional love,
and also the representation of Fairy Village.

Masters are the eyewitnesses of the civilization came down and also the creators of another civilization.
Players are the creators of KungFu World and the persons who maintain Kung Fu world.
But Kung Fu World might not be affected by the thoughts of masters.
The contradiction between masters and players is disclosed along with the development of game world.
For God created the world and the normal persons, who will win?

Pizza Chef

Play Pizza Chef and feel your taste and management senses sharpening! Imagine a cozy room, beautiful tables and chairs, neat table-cloths and, of course, a kitchen where the secrets of cooking pizza are being discovered! Increase the quality of your pizza by modernizing the equipment and training the staff.

Earn bonuses by branching out your business and affiliating with rivals! This great combination of Match 3 and Time Management gameplay will satisfy even the most demanding of casual gamers.
* Awesome bonuses and upgrades.
* Mind-challenging mini-games.
* Innovative gameplay!

Playboy The Mansion Gold Edition

Playboy The Mansion puts the player into the virtual slippers of world-famous Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, building Playboy Magazine and the Playboy Mansion into dynamic cultural icons. Gamers live the lifestyle, rubbing elbows with stunning women and popular celebrities,and share the mystique of the Mansion by hosting extravagant, exciting parties.

Smart management of the Mansion's social scene is required to keep the business thriving, and scoring hot celebrity interviews and arranging sexy photo shoots are just some of the tasks that players will encounter in growing the empire. The innovative Photoshoot gameplay allows the player to take control of the camera, shoot models for magazine covers and pick and choose the best overall theme for each issue in order to maintain the excellence that the buying public demands.

Rendered in a beautiful 3D environment including actual Playboy estate areas such as the Game House and the world-famous Playboy Grotto, the game portrays an accurate, virtually liveable version of the actual Playboy Mansion. Gamers can also create their own versions of the Mansion as they step into the role of the Playboy mogul, hosting lavish parties designed to be the envy of Hollywood. With Campaign and Empire modes, players can either follow an intriguing and involved storyline, or be let loose to explore and create on their own.

The Gold Edition includes all the original game's content plus the following:
- Playboy: The Mansion Private Party Expansion on CD4!
- Three Main Parties (Midsummer Night's Dream, Hef's Birthday and Playmate Of The Year)
- Four Secondary Parties (Halloween, New Year's Eve, Magazine Anniversary and Spring Break)
- New party animations: Special party-themed costumes
- Fireworks
- Surprise guests
- More rewarding material
- New/updated Playmate photos
- Playmate videos

Astro Menace

AstroMenace is a brilliant 3d scroll-shooter allowing you to feel the adrenalin rush of a fierce space battle against relentless swarms of alien invaders. Immerse into a decisive battle against tons of cunning foes, face the terrifying bosses and protect your homeland throughout 15 diverse levels of the game. The hardcore gameplay of AstroMenace, packed with pure non-stop action, will become a full scale test for your basic instinct of survival.

AstroMenace shines with stunning special effects which in combination with superb 3d graphics guarantee that the game will feast the eyes of even most experienced arcade players. The quality of visuals ensures that the demonstration of your superior power and new weaponry will look really impressive and awesome, so the destruction of foes is a truly amazing sight.

The game provides a wide variety of armaments and weapon upgrades for discharging the retributive wrath upon the hordes of enemies, besides it has a great number of improvements for enhancing the defensive abilities of your spaceship. Collect money during the combat and invest them into turning your spaceship into an ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

AstroMenace offers a variety to the gameplay by providing it with two different control styles, simulator and arcade. It's up to you to decide, whether to concentrate on inflicting damage and make total carnage or involve some skillful maneuvering to the flight. Along with different navigation systems there are 22 playable ships each with its own specific characteristics.

What's more AstroMenace comes with a convenient system of pilot profiles that redeems from a saveload routine and a handy interface creating auspicious gaming conditions. Also it has rich difficulty options where you can precisely define the game complexity. If you'd like to become a legendary Galaxy liberator and an honored space fighter, then get AstroMenace and prove to these arrogant aliens that humans are of higher evolutionary grade.

Abra Academy - Returning Cast

There have been several strange attacks on Abra Academy.
It seems that some unknown creatures have broken into the campus and are causing havoc!

The children are frightened and the monsters are creating a huge mess.
Wanda and her friends have been called in to investigate the attacks.
Abra Academy: Returning Cast...

Luxor Bundle Pack

In this two-game pack, Isis has enlisted your help to battle against Set and his evil minions.
Use your mystical winged scarab to shoot colored spheres and make matches of three or more.

Stop them all before they can reach the pyramids at the ends of the paths or all of Egypt is doomed!
Use the magic of Isis to catch talismans, gems, and Ankh coins.
Unique power-ups, fun gameplay,
and an original musical score make this game hard to put down.
Are you ready to thwart Set's diabolical plans? This bundle pack contains two games,
Luxor and Luxor: Amun Rising, for the price of one!

88 challenging levels. Two games for the price of one! Exciting power-ups. Individualized personal profiles. 3 difficulty levels.

Little Shop Of Treasures

Welcome to Huntington, a charming little town where if you look close enough,
your dreams will come true. Help Huntington's shop owners find more than 1,200 unique, and cleverly hidden,

items for their customers and earn enough cash to open a shop of your own! Featuring two great ways to play,
an innovative hint feature, endless re-playability and more,
this eye-popping challenge from the creators of the Super Collapse! series will bend your brain and dazzle your eyes.
Find your way to fun at the Little Shop of Treasures today!

Fashion Solitaire

From Lifetime Games and Large Animal Games (Saint & Sinner's Bingo, Snapshot Adventures, Lego Bricktopia), it's a fashion-themed game with a new twist.

Inspired by high fashion and the rules of Solitaire, this is a fashion themed game different from the many others recently released.

FATE

Travel to the outskirts where the Old Wood meets the Dungeon Gate in the fabled forest town of Grove.

Beyond this mystic gate,you'll acquire power with unique weaponry and magic spells.
Battle creatures that lurk within the dungeon's corridors.
Venture beyond the gate to steal glimpses of glory and fortune. Live to the next century, or look death in its fiery eyes and seek solace in the after-life. The time has come to take the dare. Rise and test your worth! Step forward and determine Your FATE!

Golden Hearts Juice Bar

It is your job to help Kelly become a master of the Golden Hearts Juice Bar.

With your help she will learn how to make more than 200 different drinks
and serve customers in 4 different towns.
Will Kelly find love and realize her dreams? It all depends on you!

24 March 2009

Electro Master

You have to connect all broken chains of power line in time. You have done it but consumption station is off that is why the chain is broken. You have to switch it on by pushing red buttons and gathering tools of activation. You'll recognize them because little red arrows always point at them.

You can also collect precious stones, every three precious stones You get a freestyle prize. But you should careful too, beware of catches!

Stoked

Since Skate was released, snowboarding fans have been screaming out for a similar title aimed at them specifically – and the gaming industry has at now at long last delivered their wish in the shape of Stoked, a snowboarding title with shapes of those before it but enough new about it to make it stand out as a game you will not have experienced before.

Snowboarding games in the past have been, to put it quite bluntly, over the top. Many have looked as if they have been hording fancy looking features which have absolutely no use at all, much like those ornaments your Gran has in her favourite cabinet. Stoked however is just the same, only without the stuff you do not really need and to be honest, you never wanted it either, as the lack of it does not detract from Stoked appeal in any way what so ever.

In fact it makes Stoked feel a little more gritty and real than anything before it which can only be a good thing. The realism is enhanced further by the graphical world’s that surround you as you hit the slopes, as they have been re-creating to a fantastic level of detail which even the most anti-snow amongst us will appreciate.

It can be argued that snowboard games simply can’t go wrong. After all there is never really a story line for the game to follow, the range of moves your character needs to make throughout the games’ entirety is limited, and the game environments themselves are not considered overly difficult to create. None of these factors should take anything away from how well Stoked has been put together, though.

With no distractions, you take to the slopes in Stoked with the sole purpose of performing great tricks as you rush relentlessly towards to foot of the snow covered mountains – your most difficult decision will be whether to spin or flip! The game is pacey and it feels it as the trees fly behind you as you descend, and performing tricks at such speed will give you a surprisingly rewarding feeling if you manage to land them perfectly – despite the fact you will not gain anything other than trick points.

There is nothing new to unlock during the game, it’s all there from the start for you to enjoy. Some may argue this gives the game no real goals, but if beating your previous best tricks is not incentive enough, then you probably are not a real snowboarding fan anyway!

Even if you aren’t a snowboarding fan, you will become a snowboarder in Stoked as you are able to create your own character to play with. You select their gender, race and nationality which gives the game a personal feeling to you. You can’t tweak your characters face though, or anything else that is considered advanced, but this is not something that leaves you disappointed once you get playing.

As you play you are able to perform any one from dozens of real life moves that you may have seen on TV! Each and every trick looks great and is wonderfully animated – this includes wipeouts, but mind the yellow snow. Learning the tricks is simple, whether you self teach during practise runs or go through the game’s tutorial mode, it won’t be long before you are boarding like a pro.

When you do eventually start boarding like a pro, sponsors will come knocking to make you feel like a pro too. Gaining sponsors will see you wearing their gear, or performing tricks in specially set-up board runs with the intention of getting some hot action shots for their promotions.

Overall the game has something for everyone, and will be enjoyed by gamers of all ages. The controls are easy to pickup, and it seems to be one of those games that everybody is pretty good at – even your little sister will beat you on her day! Stoked is one for fun loving gamers – seriously competitive gamers should look elsewhere, though you guys would also enjoy it if only to try beating your own scores repetitively.

23 March 2009

Azada Ancient Magic

Big Fish Games Studios summons you back to the deep mystery and magic of Azada. Too afraid to enter the library, young Titus calls upon your courage and superior puzzle-solving skills to disarm the magical menace.

Luckily, Titus has given you a magic medallion to call upon him when in need. Enter the lives of storybook characters in more than 20 magic puzzle books. Meet famous legends like King Arthur, Rapunzel, Henry Jekyll, Buffalo Bill, and many more. Can you unveil the dark hidden secret in Azada: Ancient Magic?