

The game gives you tons of rope, and plenty to hang yourself with, as you work through each puzzly mission. TASTEE: Lethal Tactics lets you plan your anti-terrorist moves, and see their results, before committing to any course of action. Here’s a game that harkens back to the mission-planning aspects of the original Rainbow 6 games, where tactics and timing were determined before the mission actually started. This year’s “Redux” edition brings the game into the studio’s latest engine, with better visuals, improved performance, new moves, new enemies, and reworked enemy placement.


Its cyberpunk story is a bit hard to follow, but who really cares? The focus here is on fast moving, circle-strafing old-school shooter mechanics. Publisher: Gambitious Digital Entertainmentįlying Wild Hog made its big-market splash with their fantastic reboot of Shadow Warrior in late 2013, but the origins of everything that made that game great were already present in their 2011 title Hard Reset. The fact that this game is also available on mobile? Icing on the mage’s cake. You can also design nearly everything about each game’s starting conditions – and each game is played out on multiple planes of existence, which are individually customizable, as are your heroes. The lavish pixel art really sells this game, which should be poking around your neighborhood with a full release this fall.ĭon’t let this Master of Magic-inspired 4X title pass you buy without at least a look: Planar Conquest is a remarkably deep strategy game that offers challenges to even veterans of the genre. It’s sort of an adventure game that harkens back to the glory days of Sierra Online’s Police Quest series, but it’s also a bit of a sim: while trying to clear your name of a murder you didn’t commit, you’ll have to write tickets for “dirty hippies” who park incorrectly and check in around the block to get the latest gossip from restaurant and bodega owners. and Miami Vice influences on its wrinkled blue sleeve. Naturally, it’s not just about getting from point A to B – you’ll have to demolish buildings, defeat gigantic enemy buses, and avoid flinging yourself into the void as you perambulate through OmniBus’s increasingly weird environments, which include the side of a skyscraper and the surface of the moon.īeat Cop wears its Magnum, P.I. OmniBus is pretty much that: you’re driving a bus, it doesn’t have brakes, and you need to make this situation work somehow. In the 1994 film Speed, Sandra Bullock has to drive a bus at a constant 50 mph or Dennis Hopper will make it explode.
