Monthly Archives: June 2016

SpellForce 3

SpellForce 3 is a buy-to-play fantasy RTS game developed by Grimlore Games for PC and will be available for purchase on Steam sometime in 2016. This installment of the SpellForce series takes place before SpellForce: The Order of Dawn, which gives new players a great chance to get acquainted with the series as it requires relatively little knowledge of the series’ backstory. Here players can unravel the exciting mysteries of the world of Eo and watch as their hero conquers the land, creating their own legend.

Features:

Customizable Hero: Customize your hero and his skillset, creating a one-of-a-kind hero for your epic journey.

Three Races: Elves, Orcs, and Humans are the three different kinds of playable races within the game.

Unit Tactics: You’ll not only need to control your hero, but also a large number of units and direct them in a strategical manner to achieve your goals.

Excubitor

Excubitor is a tower defense shooter game developed by Tesseract Interactive that is available for purchase on Steam for PC, Mac, and Linux. Over a century from now mankind will be plunged into an interstellar war over the existence of a new resource, called Voidshards. The mothership houses much of humanity as they travel throughout the vast regions of space, searching out these Voidshards, but they are not alone. Fierce enemy drones are approaching the mothership at a staggering rate and trying to bring it down. The only thing standing between these unknown enemies and the mothership’s utter destruction is you, the turrets you construct, and your trusty defensive ship, the Hammerhead.

Features:

Hammerhead Abilities: Give the Hammerhead new abilities like shockwave and berserk to make quick work of your enemies.

Turrets: Build different kinds of turrets like the Prism turret or Gatling laser turret to defend the mothership. After all, you can’t be in every place at once!

Varying Difficulties: Play through four types of increasing difficulties, including NewGame+ which is the hardest of all the difficulties and gives you the chance to use some special weapons.

Candidate Crunch

Candidate Crunch is a free to play mobile game developed by Urthworx for iOS and Android where players try to help their choice in candidate survive the campaign trail! The road to the White House is riddled with dangerous objects falling from the sky, and only you can save your favorite candidates from them. Who will make it in the end and not get utterly crushed by the competition and falling Liberty Bells? That’s up to you!

Features:

Election Central: Visit the Election Central portion of the app and find useful links to election information and how to vote.

Unlockable Characters: Unlock entertaining, customized characters like Goth Hillary, SuperTrump, and Headbanger Bernie on your journey to The White House.

All Your Favorite Candidates: Not only will you be able to play as the candidates who are still in the race today like Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but you’ll also be able to play as those who have dropped out like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, John Kasich and more!

Empire: Revenant Open Beta Giveaway

OnRPG has partnered with AMZGames to celebrate the launch of Empire: Revenant’s open beta with a bonus pack to help get you started!

Empire: Revenant is a free-to-play strategy browser game using a turn based system that utilizes figures from ancient history and mythology to engage in epic PvE & PvP battles, including faction vs. faction warfare, and guild vs. guild challenges. Create your army by choosing from more than 60 different historical world leaders and an ever growing collection of weapons, armor, mounts, guardians, and unique skills. Take your place as a great leader by completing quests and accepting character defining challenges.

Prove yourself in the Challenge Tower (up to 25 battles) and Final Stand (100+ battles!), Pitched Battle, Frontier Defence, Monster Tower and more!

Your legacy will not be decided by simply winning or losing… but by the magnitude of your triumphs and the gravity of your defeats!

    This Special Bonus Pack Includes:

  • Rare Chest x 5
  • Rare Key x 5
  • Clay Jar x 10
  • Silver x 188888
  • Lamp x 2
    How to Redeem:

  1. Click this icon on the upper right of the screen.

Empire: Revenant Giveaway

2. Input your gift code in the blank and click “Claim”.

Empire: Revenant Giveaway

The gift will be delivered to your bag right away.
Notice:
1. Each account can only claim 1 pack.
2. Each code can only be used once.

Goliath Soft Launch Review: A Tale of Morality and Giant Robots

By Jason Parker (Ragachak)

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Goliath is an action RPG with some fairly ambitious goals.  You play as a young man with a very cool gauntlet who has somehow gone far from home. Without much knowledge of where you are, you go through a pretty simple tutorial that explains just how this game works. It’s not just a traditional RPG though. Sure, you gain levels and explore new Biomes [worlds], but it is primarily a survival game. Octopus Tree and Whalebox put together a very fascinating game where every decision matters, and even the Goliaths matter.  I don’t think it’s quite perfect yet, but it’s very enjoyable. There’s even supposed to be multiplayer on the way!  With it, up to four players can hop in their Goliaths and kick the crap out of giant enemies.  With a dynamic weather system and day-to-night transitions, what you do in this world determines whether you thrive or perish. You won’t always run around in a Goliath either. There are areas you have to drop back into human mode and sneak around; being aware of your surroundings has never been more important.

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The terrain and time of day, as well as weather, determines how powerful you can potentially be.  A prime example of this is the Wooden Goliath, the very first one you learn how to build. This bot heals in the water and rain, but fire makes it take extreme damage. High temperatures make it weak, whereas the Stone Goliath thrives in high temperatures, even making it faster/more mobile.  Each Goliath has its own unique traits and abilities, and can equip weapons made of the same material it is. Wooden cannot wield Stone, et cetera. The most important feature to learn is what is useful where, and what advantage each gets in said situation. But therein lies another problem: You can have three Goliaths to hotswap between, but if you don’t have a place to put it, you can’t build new ones. You have bays that let you store one.. but what happens when you’re maxed out and can finally build new Goliaths? It’s very unclear with what you can do with them, and that’s a problem!  I eventually learned that you can deconstruct with the Goliath Construction system, but it didn’t appear until much later in the game.

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That leads me to another issue I had with the game: It seems to me that you can’t upgrade a Goliath manually. You instead have to build new ones, at least as far as I’ve gone, and that becomes incredibly tedious.  You gain new parts through the “Experiment” system.  The way that works, is you have to do certain tasks to unlock new parts for Golems. One of the Wooden Goliath tasks is to have it catch fire in a certain environment. Doing so unlocked a new part for that style Goliath. To build anything you need materials, and that’s where the survival aspect also comes in. You break down boulders, chop trees, and wreck almost everything in the open world to obtain craft items, build weapons, and medical/repair items. You construct stuff in your camp, which has a barrier that no enemy can cross. You make items for you and your Golems in the tent via the Goliath Construction/Weapon construction systems, and other useful constructions to make your life a little bit easier.  It’s not going to be the same every time, so with the procedurally generated worlds, it’s a bit like a roguelike in that regard.  The quests – nothing will be the exactly the same.  Speaking of the world, there are several factions in the world of Goliath, and each one has different wants, needs, and Golem plans.

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So what does that mean? As you progress through this story you have the chance to work with groups like the Fox people, the Ratkin, and others. In my playthrough, after joining the Forest Brotherhood [Foxes], I was given a powerful weapon to use as proof that I betrayed the Fox people, and use it as a ruse against the Rats.  Now the Rats also want me to betray them! What did I do?  Well, I may or may not have acted morally and righteously.  And that’s what I like about this game! This is what I like the most [sans giant robot battles]: The ability to decide what is right, what is wrong, and do whatever you feel like. Do you want to fight the Rats instead? Do you want to hunt down the wolves after getting a powerful weapon from them? It’s all up to you! How you want to play the game will change the strategy you need to employ to succeed.  And of course, you pilot giant robots and employ their various abilities, pros and cons, to survive.  Goliaths can power up by moving around for a period of time, which will increase the power of their abilities and attacks, but it’s pretty brief.  You’ll want to use this when you get overwhelmed by enemies and have to run them in circles to not die. Do you want to survive? Set traps, mines, throw boulders and sneak around with invisibility. Do you want to teleport to new biomes and explore, meeting factions and helping or harming them as you see fit?

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What DID the Fox Say? [Niche’ Title, Still Fun!]

Score: Great

No, really, what? Never listened to the song. Goliath is a mixed bag, and one we will explore further when the multiplayer drops; when that happens, Bottom Tier will be there to report on it!  There are lots of interesting things happening. I don’t think it is very user friendly, and I died over, and over and over again trying to get used to the game. I do admittedly hate that you can’t move the camera up and down, only side to side. It makes it a little harder to see things coming or going sometimes, but that’s not a major gripe with it. The story feels a bit unclear, and the game is terribly unforgiving, but it is fun beyond that.  The goliaths are fun to pilot, get cool abilities, and even if you are a bit underpowered, you can get by with some patience. I’m disappointed it didn’t launch with multiplayer, but I’m sure it will be a lot of fun. I can see this would make for truly exciting adventures! I enjoy this game, but I feel like it will be more popular with survival fans. The difficulty can ramp up quickly and be pretty unforgiving, and if you’re into that, you’ll definitely feel it. The long and the short is, Goliath is a lot of fun. It’s hard, but not without reward.

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Combat:

+ Oh boy does it have that. Giant Robots vs. Giant Monsters [and regular monsters] can be a lot of fun. Utilizing the right defensive and offensive powers at the right time will give you the edge, if you’re in the right biome for that Goliath.

But you have to be in the right biome. If you’re a Wood Goliath in the desert, and you don’t have access to Stone Goliaths yet? Good luck because it’s gonna be rough. It doesn’t seem like there’s much of an aggro drop unless you get back to camp. But I have glitched level 30 enemies as a level 7 Goliath, luring them into the barrier of the camp and killing them when they can’t fight back.

Difficulty:

+ It’s certainly a challenge. You have to spend a fairly long amount of time finding out what items come from what biomes, and farm accordingly. And for your Golems, you’ll want enough for repairs. It’s challenging, but it’s not an impossible experience.

 While yes, I enjoy the varying weather/temperature changes affecting your Goliaths, heat on your Wooden Goliath can be absolutely infuriating. One lick of flame can practically kill them if you aren’t even remotely cautious. I can’t count the number of times I gotten blown up and mowed down.

MU Origin

MU Origin is a mobile RPG based on the classic MMORPG “MU Online” by Webzen. Experience a Full scaled 3D MMORPG on the go with real-time combat, vast dungeons to dive into and an open world to explore.

Features:

Real-Time Mobile MMORPG: Includes all the features you would come to expect from an MMORPG, such as open fields for leveling, dungeons to explore and more.

Fact-paced Leveling: Plow through experience levels at an incredible pace.

Ultimate Power: Players can increase their character’s powers through endless levels and content.

Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes

Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes is the next evolution in the popular PVZ franchise by Popcap and EA Games. By mixing up the PVZ world with superheroes, players can build a crazy team of characters to do battle with. Embark on a journey to discover new characters, and confront mighty opponents along the way.

Features:

Collect your heroes : Collect and choose from 20 unique Plant and Zombie Heroes and unlock their lawn-inspiring super powers.

Form Your Team: Build yours and diversify your skills by collecting teammates – from the PvZ characters you know and love, to daring new plants and zombies.

Adventures Galore: Journey through the universe of PvZ Heroes as each action-packed skirmish takes you further along an ever-blooming map.

PvP Mode: Test your team when you take on other players in exciting real-time matches. Earn rewards for defeating your bite-iest adversaries, and build your bank when you complete Daily Missions.

Battleborn Tap

Battleborn Tap is a mobile RPG based on the Battleborn FPS title by 2K Games. Set in the same universe as the original title, players can collect and command several different Battleborn heroes and fight for control over the last star in the universe.

Features:

Upgrade to Win: Collect loot by defeating waves of enemies to earn new gear and abilities, then use that loot to upgrade your heroes’ stats, weapons, and active abilities

Rare gear: Collect gear from 5 different rarities to boost your hero’s capabilities

Achievements: Earn in-game achievements to collect special rewards.

Fully-fledged rewards: Playing Battleborn Tap will allow you to unlock exclusive rewards for Battleborn on PC/Xbox One/PS4