Oil's Well RedrilledSystempunkt'd | Submitted by the99th on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 22:38. |
Oil's Well Redrilled is a re-make of the old Sierra game from 1983, created by FireStorm Productions. You should be aware of peak oil, because it you're not this game is just a hack-ish time-waster (and you won't survive the next decade). If you are, this game becomes ripe with metaphor, furling out to a meditative exercise on the nature of the beast, the hunger we share with it, and how we got to this point.
Fans of XCOM will find the gameplay of Taskforce familiar: you control a squad of heavily armed soldiers, and each turn you plan their moves. Each has a limited number of action points to spend, and movement, firing, and other actions require you to spend points. Opponents can 'opportunity fire' at you if you enter their field of fire (and they have action points remaining from last turn), so even though this is an "I move/you move" game, there's a sense of interactivity between the players as you move. Once you're finished with your turn, the other side performs its own actions under the control of the AI.
