Fatworld | Submitted by costik on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 19:48. |
Well, I wanted to review Ian Bogost's new game Fatworld today, as it was just launched, but as it happens it runs like molasses on my 1.5GHz machine, so this will have to be more of a "first impressions" post, perhaps with a more in-depth review to follow in future.
Just a few years ago, you would not have been surprised to see a game like this getting cover treatment from the major PC game magazines. It's a nicely polished oblique-overhead third-person shooter set in a mining colony on Ganymede (one of Jupiter's moons) that is under attack by alien critters. The story line is nicely done too, with good voice acting and a real sense of tension and a colony under siege; naturally, weapons get more powerful over time, and NPCs work with you in later levels.
