Yearly Archives: 2019

Sword Art Online

THIS PROFILE WAS MADE AS AN APRIL FOOL’S JOKE IN 2013 AND DOES NOT REFERENCE A REAL GAME.

Happy April Fools! Or is it…?

Capitalizing on the recent marketing success of Wizardry Online’s permadeath feature, Gamepot is at it again attempting to capture the same visceral action feel in Sword Art Online. Meet up with your favorite characters from the popular anime as you attempt to level, advance, and survive to reach the game’s final floor in constantly updated content driven by player’s choices.

Features:

Evolving Story: Live the fantasy as the game world evolves with regular updates introducing new levels of the tower and new GM run events to keep players forever logged in.

Unique Character Builds: Adjust your character’s build as it evolves in unpredictable ways depending on a 300 question personality quiz given during character creation.

One Character, One Server: Live one unified tale with Aeria’s advanced server technology negating the need for channels or multiple servers. You’ll never be alone in Sword Art Online.

Sandbox Crafting: The world is yours for the players to create! Construct towns and even fortresses, control them through weekly PvP battles, and set the rules of the land! But be careful, the pride of your guild might cost you your character’s life!

Warframe

Warframe is a free-to-play multiplayer sci-fi shooter developed by Digital Extremes for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 that is also available for download on Steam. In Warframe players can become one of the Tenno: warriors of blade and gun that were also masters of the Warframe armor. Those that survived the old war were left drifting among the ruins, but now they are needed once more. Join your friends in player-vs-enemy raids across the solar system and master the power of the Warframes. Stand alone or fight together against enemies that threaten your world.

Features:

Randomized Maps: Never play the same map twice with randomization elements and various starting points in each mission. In addition you can experience variable missions including escort, stealth, and escape type modes just to name a few.

Build Your Warframe!: With multiple warframe types and various skills and powers that can be unlocked on the tech tree, you can build your warframe the way you see fit!

Intense Graphics and Physics: Feel the force behind each blow and slice your enemies in half with a truly Unreal physics engine.

Co-Op Play: Team up with friends to take on each mission and work in unison to set high scores and records for others to challenge!

PvP: Players can compete against each other in Duels, Conclaves, and Solar Rail Conflicts that pit different numbers of players against each other with different objectives.

Pirate101

Pirate101 is an sea-faring online role-playing adventure game featuring grand airships, varied explorable environments, and exciting combat. Travel across the world to discover the various treasures and adventures that await you.

Business Model: Free-to-Play

Microtransactions: Yes, there are optional in-game purchases available.

Key Features:

Classes: Will you be a heavy-weapons buccaneer, trap-setting musketeer, supportive privateer, duel-wielding swashbuckler, or vampiric witch doctor? Each profession has different skills and styles that players can use to help each other.

Back to Basics: Place your pirates and use skill and strategy to out maneuver your opponents just like in a board game. Use various powers in combat to turn the tide in your favor, or to press your advantage further!

Travel Buddy: Earn your first companion unique to the class you start your pirate as, then, find or purchase additional companions as you play. Additionally, every pet has special powers and abilities to help you in combat and can also be trained or promoted as you see fit.

Port Town: What would a pirate game be without a shipyard full of options? Various levels of ships are available through quests. Feel free to customize your vessels with sails, anchors, cannons, and even display your very own pirate flag.

Fire All Cannons: Engage your opponents in fierce ship-to-ship air combat!

World of Warships

World of Warships is the next in the line from Wargaming, which also publishes World of Tanks and World of Warplanes. The game gives players a fleet of ships to use in the open sea including destroyers, battleships, heavy cruisers, and aircraft carriers. With four classes of ships, myriad upgrades, and strategically designed environments the action never ends and every match is a unique experience. Endless hours of strategy, tactical gameplay and pulse pounding combat await all who take the helm in World of Warships!

Business Model: Freemium

Microtransactions: Yes – A large variety of in game purchases available that will benefit the player both in and out of combat.

Key Features:

Vessel Classes: Man the helm of an aircraft carrier, cruiser, destroyer, or battleship and exploit their unique abilities for your own gain.

Fleets: Don’t just take on a single ship in World of Warships. This game will have you taking charge of an entire fleet of ships that you’ve personally customized to work well together.

Weather Patterns: Watch as the weather changes and drastically influences how well your fleet performs. Learn how to guide your fleet through storms and choppy waters so they can survive to sail another day.

Star Stable

Star Stable is a horse breeding and racing role-playing game serving as a dedicated love letter to equestrian fans everywhere.

Business Model: Free Trial

Microtransactions: Yes, a monthly subscription service is available.

Key Features:

A Grand Adventure: Thousands of players can experience great adventures, compete in races, care for your horses in your own home stable, and solve the mysteries of a spectacular original story.

Choose and Train: Enjoy the game on the back of your very own horse. Gain experience and pick from special breeds of horses to ride.

Thousands of Quests: Take on a bunch of different missions, meet fascinating characters all over the island and take part in the amazing story.

Play with Friends: Meet up and go for rides together with friends in a huge online world, start and join Riding Clubs, take part in competitions, or just share adventure stories with your friends in a cozy cafe.

 

Forge of Empires

InnoGames’ Forge of Empires is an MMORTS developed by InnoGames for PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android that is based on early human civilizations. As you progress in game, so does time progress. Starting from the Stone Age and advancing all the way through the Oceanic Future, your empire advances through stages of history and sees new technological advances with each time period. Offering a single player campaign, as well PvP action, Forge of Empires gives players a unique gaming experience with the convenience of being a browser and mobile game. Build your empire and start taking over today!

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes, purchase diamonds (used for a variety of features), building packs, or army packs.

Key Features:

Cities: The main portion of the game takes place on your city map. As you make your way through different ages more buildings and decorations will become available, as well as an expanded building area.

Army Management: Successful civilizations are going to need to fight for what they want and need. Use light, ranged, fast, heavy, and artillery units to get your point across.

AI Battles:
Battles themselves are fought in such a way that the defender is played by AI with predetermined troops. Defeat the defender to take over the sector they are guarding. Take over an entire province by owning all of its sectors.

Expansions:

Innogames developers are constantly updating and improving Forge of Empires.

Kill Shot Bravo

One of the first FPS games on mobile, Kill Shot Bravo, by Hothead Games, is available for both iOS and Android devices.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes  – Purchase gold or boosts.

Key Features:

Customize: Fine tune your commando to suit your play style.

Missions: Encounter a wide variety of enemies, from flying drones to mechs to RPG wielding insurgents in PvE combat.

Live PvP Test your skill against other real snipers in live ranked Player Verses Player matches in PVP mode.

 

Rock Band 4

Rock Band 4 is the latest installment of the Rock Band series being developed by Harmonix for purchase Xbox One and PS4. In Rock Band 4 you can play over 65 songs from the game’s soundtrack with your friends or even download some from Rock Band’s catalog of over 2,000 songs! Play the guitar, bass, drums, or sing vocals with your respective controller to songs like Avenged Sevenfold’s “Hail To The King”, Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds”, and Jack White’s “Lazaretto”. Rock Band 4 hands you all of the tools necessary to gain that sweet musical fame you’ve dreamed of!

Business Model: Retail Purchase

Microtransactions: Yes – Players may purchase additional songs from an ever growing library of over 2,000 titles.

Key Features:

Campaign Choices: Unlike previous installments in the Rock Band series, Rock Band 4’s campaign features choices that will affect things like what songs your band plays, where you play, and what gear is unlocked for you to use.

Freestyle Sections: Freestyle Sections are something new to the Rock Band series and let you get creative by playing freestyle drum fills, guitar solos, and vocals that are loosely guided in tempo and in the range of notes that can be played, but the rest is left up to you! Freestyle Sections even award points!

Support For Old Gear: Rock Band 4 has support for its legacy instruments so you can rock out on all of your old gear and it even supports DLC from previous installments!

Expansions:

Rock Band Rivals: The first expansion of this installment of the Rock Band series gives access to two new games modes: Rivals and Rockudrama.

Castle Clash

Castle Clash is a 2D mobile strategy game by IGG available on Android and iOS. Build and battle against over 70 million players worldwide in an addictive game of strategy and turn-based combat.

Business Model: Free to Play

Microtransactions: Yes – Players may purchase Gems which may in turn be used to purchase in game resources (gold and mana), honor badges, and to hire additional builders. A builder is required for each building being built or upgraded. Players may also purchase shields which prevent attack for a set duration and cosmetic decorations.

Key Features:

Fast-paced action: Enjoy fast-paced, thrilling, and realistic battles full of brutality and strategic planning.

PvP: Pit your Heroes against other players in the Arena.

Guild battles : Create your very own Guild and lead it to victory in Guild Wars.

PvE: Join other players and conquer Team Dungeons.

Expansions:

IGG frequently releases updates for Castle Clash. To view a complete version history, click here.