Naked War
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I’d love to say that I’d been really busy over the course of the weekend and managed to get a lot of stuff done…but I didn’t. In fact, aside from food and brews I’ve done nothing since 2:30 Saturday afternoon…nothing, other than play Naked War that is.
Those pesky Pickford Brothers have managed to completely consume my entire weekend, predominantly taken up with an epic war of nerve between myself and my good friend and fellow RR admin STompy with a brief break for a short annihilation from John Pickford late on Sunday afternoon.
For a few moments I thought everything was going to go a bit tits up and I wouldn’t even get the opportunity to sample the joys of Naked War - I’d had very little sleep Friday into Saturday (read:none) and my credit card is out of use to midweek until I can throw some more money in its general direction…things were looking grim indeed.
So, on the recommendation of Retrospec’s Graham Goring who threatened to challenge me to a game Sunday afternoon, I downloaded the client anyway. Joy - I get a free challenge credit for signing up! So, I point STomps in the direction of the site and get him to download the client ready for a match. Disaster! First round in and STomps computer goes kaputt and manages to mangle the game up taking the credit and any hope away with us. Aha, but all was not lost - as STomps also had a free credit…and so we began.
The aim of the game is simple, you take opposing teams and after a quick game of paper,scissors,stone you decide who gets to take the first turn. In true tactical game fashion, you’re given a number of moves to make before your turn ends and the opposing team take theirs. Simply (ha!) claim all the “doofus” from the enemy by weakening them until they lose all their clothes and the victory is yours to revel in. There’s a number of buildings you can clamber upon/within in order to take pot shots at the enemy, a selection of vehicles to tear up the landscape in, some cleverly designed maps and a number of “secrets” to locate on some of the maps.
The great thing is, its so immediately obvious what to do - the interface is as close to perfection as you can possibly get - that you’re up, running and blasting in no time whatsoever. Even an idiot like me, who normally detests tactical/strategy games grasped it within a few moments. And its immense fun indeed. Everything is so filled with character and tiny little details that lift the game above the melee of similar titles from the animations to the grunting sounds your little characters make. The ability to fire across messages and imbue your little soldiers with a personality of their own is a wonderfully neat touch too. Many of the turns spent on the grand opus match with STomps had me in tucks of laughter as he pulled off ridiculous strategies leaving silly comments in his wake.
As the game is “community based” anyone with a challenge credit is free to challenge anyone else - and even with my hasty defeat at the hands of Mr Pickford running in at around an hour, to say that 20 credits for around 10 quid is a bargain would be a slight understatement. Thats a bare minimum of 20 hours play - and considering the match between myself and STompy ran from 2:30 Saturday afternoon to late Sunday evening with only a sleep break inbetween, there’s more value for money in just one credit than 90% of the entire games pumped out onto the market.
A lovely game that deserves to earn the developers a nice wodge of cash - if only so that we can convince them to remake Feud next.
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I’ve been wondering about this for awhile after running into their website… looks extremely interesting and pretty cool. I’ll see how much time I’ve got this coming weekend and maybe I’ll take the plunge. If I do, I’ll let you know.
Cheers,
Bill
I’ll drop you a challenge if you fancy a game, Bill.
Save your free credit that way for someone you can lose against!
Sorry about the comment not appearing earlier, I must have switched moderation on when I was messing around at the weekend.