BohnanzaTabletop Tuesdays | Submitted by costik on Tue, 05/27/2008 - 00:01. |
Bohnanza is a trading game with a bean-planting metaphor (the title is a pun in German, its original language of publication: bohn means "bean"). As with most Eurogames, the metaphor is largely irrelevant -- and in some ways detracts, I think, from the game; the theme and imagery make it seem like a children's game, while in truth it's a game of serious strategy.
Candy Mountain Massacre is interesting on two scores: Technology and imagery.
On the technology side, it's a Shockwave game, but it's true 3D, and remarkably good looking. Not Unreal-engine levels of "good looking," but maybe somewhere around the level of Quake II, which is actually pretty astonishing for a browser-playable game.
It's a first-person shooter, no bones about it; same verbs (run, jump, shoot), same powerups (health and ammo), same win conditions (blow up the bad guys real good). But what makes it different, and amusing, is the imagery.
