Showing posts with label resource management game. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resource management game. Show all posts

2010/05/10

Royal Envoy Game Review

Disaster has addled the island arena of Islandshire, and the King has called you to be his Aristocratic Envoy! With the houses and barrio on the abounding islands destroyed by an abrupt storm, it is now time for you to footfall up as the King's boondocks artist to clean these burst communities. Join the aristocratic artist as you biking from island to island allowance the citizenry adapt for the advancing backing season!A aberration storm has ravaged the island arena of Islandshire, the ambience of Aristocratic Envoy.



Its humans accept absent their apartment and businesses,, game review, and are caught adjoin the advancing backing season. The aristocratic artist has advised new barrio to be complete, game review, on the islands, and the King has assigned you the job of axis these affairs into absoluteness, game review, (after the aristocratic artist managed to argue the King that the humans of Islandshire are account helping).As you arch to the islands with Cedric the architect, you ascertain that there are absolutely a few islands that you charge to help.



There is a approach island, a bedrock island, a arid island and even a abundance island. In your adventure to clean the towns on these islands, you will accommodated abounding absorbing humans and ability even get kidnapped by pirates!, game review, A broken abundance map and a gasbag airship are just some of the things that will advance you to agitative adventures during your break in Islandshire.Royal Envoy is a town-building bold agnate to such abstract like the Build-a-Lot series. In anniversary level, you are presented with a apple that is in assorted stages of architecture or disrepair.



Your accepted, game review, assignment is to about-face it into a, game review, alive boondocks breeding acceptable income. You acquire assets by architecture assorted levels of housing. But houses crave raw materials, so you charge to body abutment barrio such as sawmills to accommodate the all-important resources. You will aswell charge to appoint apprentice to do all the chiral activity for you.As you advance added into the game, added altered types of barrio will become available. There's a bazaar for archetype, game review, area you will accept accidental barter offers, paying you gold for your raw materials.



You will aswell accept to anguish about assorted added incidentals such as befitting the humans blessed and allowance bits and storm accident from the anchorage in adjustment to admission abandoned houses. There are aswell a brace of barrio that are altered, game review, to assertive islands.Royal Envoy adds a lot of nice tweaks that accomplish it altered from added town-building amateur though. For one thing, the attendance of such elements such as apprentice accepting barge from the sawmill and your lackeys accustomed, game review, gold from the houses to your accumulate creates a abundant medieval feel that is agnate to the Warcraft style.



This appearance is complemented by the similarly-themed artwork and soundtrack.The way the adventure is told in Aristocratic Envoy is aswell appealing unique. Rather than just accepting assorted levels of gameplay with accretion difficulty, it feels like the adventure is abundant, game review, added immersive and axial to this game. There are affluence of cutscenes (fully voiced) that beef out the characters and story, and they've managed to accomplish it feel like you are an absolute actor in the adventure instead of, game review, an airy observer.



There are aswell assorted adventure elements that will arrest your mission in Islandshire and yield you on agitative adventures. Pirates, game review,, game review, will advance and kidnap you. There will be an abridged map arch to active treasure. There will be abstruse alien islands. And there's that gasbag airship as well. You will aswell accommodated abounding absorbing characters forth the way, from the banal artist Cedric to the alarming baton of, game review,, game review, the pirates (who seems to be a 12-year old girl).



And there's the King who is added afraid about his statues and shoes than the abundance of his people.Royal Envoy is actual able-bodied advised and developed, with abounding elements that accomplish, game review, it angle out from added town-building and time administration games. It is a abundant alloy of both cardinal gameplay and, game review, an agitative adventure, game review, to be experienced, and will, game review, agreement hours of fun. The basal copy of the bold has yet to be released, but you can get the Collector's Copy which contains absolute account, game review, such as hours of benefit gameplay, screensavers, guides and more!



2010/01/03

Artist Colony Game Review

Artist Antecedents is a "village" simulation bold that revolutionizes the genre. Based on concepts agnate to, game review, amateur such as the Virtual Villagers series, the ambition of Artisan Antecedents is to actualize and administer a advancing antecedents comprised of humans from all aesthetic walks of life: from painters and sculptors to singers and guitarists.The adventure of Artisan Antecedents, game review, starts a bearing ago if a brace of best accompany - both artists - absitively to begin a alone arrogant apple area humans from all, game review, aesthetic talents can reside and advance their abilities in accord and amidst similarly-minded people.



Unfortunately, this abundance, game review, started to break if a admirable sculptress angry up at the antecedents and collection the two best accompany adjoin anniversary added angry for her love. One acquaintance, game review, won her adulation and had a son with her,, game review, but if she concluded up sleeping with the added acquaintance and conceived his son, the accomplished affair fell afar and the antecedents, game review, disbanded.The bold of Artisan, game review, Antecedents picks up the adventure one bearing after if one of the sons comes aback to the alone antecedents with HIS best acquaintance (cue affecting music) with the ambition of animating the abstraction of the artisan antecedents and, game review, abating the apple to its aloft glory.



The bold starts with the best accompany accession at the old antecedents that has collapsed into disrepair. The bold boring introduces, game review, the, game review, mechanics to you while answer the backstory and the concise and long-terms goals of the game.The all-embracing ambition of the bold is to restore the artisan antecedents to its aloft celebrity (while experiencing the developing adventure, game review, of the two half-brothers). This is done by alluring a accomplished lot of artists to reside in the antecedents and by abating all its landmarks.



Each blazon of artisan has a "workplace" that they can alternation in (ie. a recording flat for a singer). In adjustment for added artists to appear to the colony, these training centers charge to be upgraded. These upgrades and, game review, the battleground restorations both crave cash, which can be becoming by affairs masterpieces: works of art produced by your artists. These masterpieces in about-face can alone be created if your artists, game review, accept acceptable training and are inspired.



Artists charge afflatus to be able to aftermath abundant works of art. They can be aggressive by admirable ambience such as fountains and flower-beds, and through affair with adolescent artists. If their, game review, altar of amore acknowledgment their advances, they become aggressive to actualize works of adulation (think Celine Dion). They can still actualize masterpieces if their adventurous advances are rejected, game review, . They'll just paint/write/sing about affliction instead (If the artisan is a singer, the artefact will a lot of acceptable be a country and western song).



In accession to all that, the artists aswell charge aliment and apartment in adjustment to reside comfortably;, game review, addition detail you will charge, game review, to manage.The mechanics of the bold are simple and elegant. There is abundant detail and complication to accumulate you absorbed and affianced in the game, but not too abundant as to apathetic the bold down or about-face it into a chore. What makes the bold absolutely angle out is the all-embracing feel. The characters and ambience accept a actual absorbing cartoony feel, authoritative you calmly abatement in adulation with them.



The soundtrack and even the change in seasons and acclimate accomplish this bold actual agreeable and enjoyable.Artist Antecedents isn't a archetypal apple simulation game. Its delineation of a antecedents of aesthetic humans aggravating to body a association and ability the pinnacles of aesthetic arete is a auspicious change from the acceptable simulation game. But aloft all, this bold is all about the adventure of vision, romance, heartbreak, betrayal and drama. Definitely a bold you do not wish to miss.



Rating: 4.5/5.0You can apprehend added about Artisan Antecedents at http://www.game-tycoon.com/artist-colony.html

2009/12/28

Westward IV: All Aboard Game Review

Westward IV: All Aboard, game review, continues, game review, the excellent gaming tradition that is the best-selling Westward game series, game review, ., game review, This fourth outing, game review, features the same great resource management, time management and adventure elements that made the Westward games such great hits in this genre.The story of Westward 4 focuses on the railroad, the mighty engine that connected, game review, the wild wild west to the prosperous cities of the east.



There are many great stories and adventures connected with the railroad; from the tales of exploration of a dangerous land, to the daring raids of robber barons and hostile Indians, to the inspirational stories of pioneers trying to make their fortunes in the new frontier.Westward 4 tells the story of the Turner Railroad, a small family business that is trying, game review, to prosper in the wild west. You play the part of either the spunky and rough-and-tumble Anne Turner, or the inventive gearhead Henry Turner, both children of the Turner Railroad's founder.



The adventure begins when the siblings return home after a, game review, few months away, only, game review, to find out that their father has gone missing and their homestead has suffered from lack of proper care. You then embark on your great adventure to find your father and transform the family business into the most prosperous outpost in the west!The game starts off fairly, game review, slowly, teaching you the basics of the game while, game review, introducing the setting and story. The first few quests/missions will teach you the basics such as gathering resources, looking for buried treasure, building farms and homes, and assigning workers to various jobs around town.



All of this happens while you are introduced to the story, game review, involving the current condition, game review, of Turner Railroad and the mystery of your missing, game review, father.The gameplay gets more complicated the further you progress into it, as you learn the blueprints for more buildings and are required to skillfully manage your limited building resources, money and labor. The buildings you can construct range, game review, from the simple farm and house that are available to you from the start, to the more complicated salon and smithy that require blueprints and more resources to build.



The resource, game review, management involves making sure you have enough gold and lumber to construct the various buildings you need, as well as enough coal to power your railroad network. The labor is also important: you will need to make sure all your workers are properly housed, fed and employed.You will also need to contend with bandits and rescue damsels in distress. No game set in the wild west is complete without some gun-slinging and rescuing hostages from railroad tracks in the nick of time! In addition, the game doesn't just revolve around the growing township of Turner Railroad.



There are plenty of other locations (all connected via railroad of course) for you to explore and expand to.The mechanics in this game are very similar to its predecessors in the Westward series. The simple interfacing primarily using the mouse has an elegance that keeps the game from becoming overly complicated. The graphics and music are top-notch like before, giving the game a polished feel and making you feel like you are part of a movie western.Westward 4 is a very engaging and immersive game that is guaranteed to take you away to the, game review, wild wild west for hours on end.



So come help the Turners find their father and transform their homestead into a bustling town. And when you're done, you can check out the other games in the Westward series.Rating: 4.0/5.0You can read more about Westward IV: All Aboard at http://www.game-tycoon.com/westward-4.html

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