Inventory TetrisSatirizing Inventory Systems | Submitted by costik on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 00:17. |
Inventory Tetris is a quick joke, and perhaps you don't even really need to play it to get the joke, but the joke is good enough that it's worth noting here.
You've undoubted played any number of games where your character's inventory is, in essence, a square grid, and you position items on the grid -- what you can carry limited not be weight or some other consideration, but by how much you can pack onto the grid.
Other than, perhaps, the racing game, there's no game genre so set in stone, so lacking in innovation as the sports game, which survives (and from a market standpoint, thrives) simply by modest tech updates and new player stats on a yearly basis. And there are really only two kinds of sports games; ones that simulate matches in vibrant 3D, and ones that simulate team management in a spreadsheet dressed up with a few graphics.
Which is why Simon Read's New Star Soccer series, of which this is the fourth, is so brilliant; Simon Read is doing something nobody else does. New Star Soccer is a life sim in which you control the life and career of a footballer.
