Monthly Archives: October 2016

SamuTale

SamuTale is an open world sandbox survival MMORPG developed by Maple Media. In SamuTale players can experience a truly open world alongside other players where player housing can be constructed, crops can be grown and harvested, and an entire world is ripe for exploration, but that’s not even close to describing all of the things that you can do within the world of SamuTale. The world is only as limited as your imagination, so take to it and explore to your heart’s content!

Features:

Survival: First and foremost your goal is to survive by whatever means necessary. You’ll need to craft and fight your way through any kinds of scenarios you might be posed with.

Farming: Farm for food to keep you and your allies well nourished and ready for every kind of adventure ahead of you!

Housing: Construct housing for players to use as their own and provide them with a safe place in-game.

Clans: Join up with a clan and work together to create entire clan villages at practically any location within the game. Form strategic alliances with other clans to extend your own clan’s influence.

Clan Wars: Defend your village from enemy clans looking to take your village for their own, loot it, and extend their territories.

Hide and Shriek

Hide and Shriek is a one versus one multiplayer scare game developed by Funcom for PC and will be available on Steam in October, 2016. In 10 minute matches set in a school building players will have to do their best and act as a mischievous rascal to scare their opponent before the time limit is up. Points can be collected throughout the match by luring your opponent into traps, performing ancient rituals, or outright scaring your opponent. At the end of the match if there isn’t a winner then the player with the most points wins.

Features:

Scaring: Players will be competing to scare one another by any means necessary, so stay on your toes otherwise you might be the one to jump from your seat.

Invisibility: Both players are completely invisible so you will need to use traps and spells to help reveal where the enemy is before giving them a good scare.

Shrieking: Shriek at your opponent with your selected mask to scare the pants off of them. Masks can be customized with different accessories so you can scare your opponents in the most terrifying ways possible.

Mini Warriors: Three Kingdoms

Mini Warriors: Three Kingdoms is a free-to-play fantasy mobile strategy game developed by Triniti Interactive Limited for iOS and Android where players can compete against each other to conquer the world and build cities throughout it. The goal is world domination, and it certainly isn’t an easy goal to reach. Only the most strategic of commanders will be able to lead their armies to victory and claim lands for their own!

Features:

Massive Battles: Battles of 25v25 players and 1000v1000 units can be fought where you’ll need to stay calm amidst the chaos of the battlefield.

Numerous Units: Over 300 heroes and 32 warrior types like archers, cavalry, spearmen, plotters and more can be put in your formation, lending to nearly infinite formation possibilities.

Strategizing: You can’t just go into a battle with mindlessly or with one strategy in mind. You’ll need to stay alert and ready to adapt to any situation you might encounter in the heat of battle.

Sword Art Online Memory Defrag

Sword Art Online Memory Defrag is a free-to-play mobile multiplayer action RPG being developed by Wright Flyer Studios and published by Bandai Namco for mobile devices. The Japanese version of the game can currently be downloaded for both iOS and Android, and it is planned to have an English release sometime in Fall 2016. In Sword Art Online Memory Defrag players can lead their favorite characters from the Sword Art Online series against various monsters, bosses, and even other players on their quest for strength, but only those with the most wit and heart will survive.

Features:

Side-Scrolling Battles: Battles take place on a 2D battlefield where players will need to attack, counter-attack, guard, jump, and more to take out their enemies.

Star-Ranking System: Character cards are part of a star-ranking system where the more stars a card has the stronger it actually is.

Bosses: Team up with other players to take down strong bosses and receive amazing loot for your efforts.

Ranked Leaderboards: Climb to the top of the PvP leaderboards and show how great your heart and strength are!

Battleline: Steel Warfare Review

Written by Remko Molenaar (Proxzor)

 

If you are a fan of tanks and love to reign down chaos with them, then Battleline Steel Warfare is the right game for you. In this real time strategy game you take control of a tank with simple controls, and have to lead your commander and team to victory by destroying everyone in sight. As a commander of a squad you are able to bring your choice of a few tanks into battle, and in this chess-like strategy game positioning is the key to winning the battle. Move up the battle line, destroy the enemy tanks and take over the capture points to guarantee your win. In Battleline Steel Warfare, sabotage is the path to victory.

Battleline: Steel Warfare Review

We’ve seen a lot of strategy games involving tanks and other heavy armor over the years, and most of these games are fully 3D and have a heavy take on realism, with a goal to get the game as authentic and realistic as possible. Battleline Steelwarfare takes a different approach. It tries to set its focus on the gameplay and making the game fun. When you first jump into the game you are given a basic tank and only a small crew to work with. The more experience you earn, the bigger your crew gets and the better tanks you are able to send out on the battlefield. Your squad is the most important thing in Battleline: Steel Warfare. Every time you head into battle, you are able to take a squad of tanks with you. Your squad is basically the best tanks you own with the right amount of crew to use them, and each one of these tanks can also given upgrades and special parts to make them stronger. As you know with tanks, there are a lot of different tanks that can have a different function on the battlefield. Light tanks usually are really fast, medium tanks are basically the balance between light and heavy, and heavy tanks are usually slower than the rest but bring a lot more firepower. Besides these three you can also get tank destroyers, repair tanks and multi rocket tanks who function as artillery.

Battleline: Steel Warfare Review

You are welcome to bring any type of tank on the battlefield, as long as you have the right amount of crew members available to control it. In Battleline Steel Warfare the battlefield is a mixture of different tank levels. When I first started out with my weak and smaller set of tanks, I did have a bit of a struggle when facing the stronger higher leveled tanks. I had to play very cautiously and not lead the charge in the front of my team. As a new player you do bring a lot of firepower into the fight, but you are definitely a lot weaker than the rest. Usually when faced against a higher leveled tank there isn’t a lot you can do besides retreat. You do however bring in special skills into the fight that can drastically help you out. Right now there are seven different skills that can be brought with you. To get these skills you have to level up your facilities.

Battleline: Steel Warfare Review

A facility is where you will learn your skill. While playing the game you will get more researchers. These researchers can be send to the facility to train your skills, usually you can have them focus on separate aspects of a skill to make it a lot better than its basic numbers. Since I was still new to the game, and I hadn’t gotten the best squad of tanks yet, I decided that a proper shield would save me in a lot of situations. So I put all of my researchers in the Deflection Shield facility, and used them to upgrade the duration of the shield. The other six available facilities are the Anti-Tank net, the Canister shell, Booster, Smoke Screen, Stealth, and the Anti tank grenade. Each one of these facilities help you out in one way or another, and its definitely recommended to match them with your play style and squad. Obviously you do not want to give your artillery tanks stealth, because that is not going to help them out too much when you are rushed by the lighter set of tanks. So you want better defensive skills to help you out in battle.

Battleline: Steel Warfare Review

To win a battle all you have to do is capture all of the points, or move the battle line up all the way to 100%. Now this concept is very interesting and new if you haven’t played before, and I have to admit I really like the idea of it and it works surprisingly well. Obviously there are a lot of capture points all over the map that you can take and that will function as a spawning point. These will force you to go out into the map and attack the enemy from all fronts to get as many footholds as possible. But the battleline forces you to do it in a subtle way so that you cannot completely run over your enemy straight away. Capture points are important, but those do not win you the game. The best way to win your game is to force the battleline to go all the way to the enemy’s initial spawn point, where it will reach 100% for you. This is done by driving in front of the line, and slowly pushing it forward. Obviously the enemy also has to do the same and thus the line is pushed from multiple sides slowly pushing it forward in one team its favor. When you drive over the line you can no longer push it forward, and thus if you rush the enemy side too far you are effectively losing by not pushing the battle line. This feature makes it so you cannot end the games really fast and have an easy rollover victory. Usually teams are really balanced and thus games take a lot longer than your usual tank simulation game. All in all a fun game element that spices things up instead of mindlessly shooting rockets at each other.

Battleline: Steel Warfare Review

Conclusion: Great

Battleline Steel Warfare is an isometric 2D tank shooter that doesn’t take itself as serious as most tank simulation games. The game is packed with fun elements to play around with, and getting blown up doesn’t necessarily mean you are out of the fight. In this RTS the fight is persistent until the time runs out or the battleline is pushed as far as possible to one side of the map. If you are a big fan of strategy games involving tanks, but aren’t a big fan of the simulation games, then Battleline Steel Warfare is the game for you. It is much simpler and much more forgiving, but at the same time still as exciting as it can be. I personally have a blast playing this game, and despite having different ranks of leveled tanks on the battlefield, every player matters and every player can have an impact on getting its team to victory.