New Review Published: Stealth Bastard

The latest and biggest thing to hit the indie PC game scene is Stealth Bastard. You’ve read about it; you’ve heard of it; you’ve played it. Yes, you have. It’s free. That’s how I know you know about it.

To summarise, it’s a freeware 2D platforming title developed by London-based developer, Curve Studios. It’s similar to Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell in theme, but more like Abuse (that old game for MS-DOS) or even Oddworld: Abe’s Odyssey in the way that it plays. There’s stealth, death, and that sort of thing, but much more fast-paced than any stealthy FPS title.

Anyway, I downloaded it recently and gave it a go, and managed to actually write a 1500 word review on it. Don’t quite know how, though. You can go through to the piece on HP, if you care.

New Review Published: Stealth Bastard

New Review Published: Dead Cyborg

Just this week I got my act together and published a new review, which has been sitting around for a week or two, practically finished.

It’s a review of Dead Cyborg, which was released late last month. I managed to play through it thoroughly over a couple of days recently.

Dead Cyborg is a donation based freeware title. How this works is the first episode of the game is released for free, as a teaser or demo of sorts. From there on, the next episode will only be made available once the donation meter fills up. And currently, Endre is looking to make $4000 dollars before releasing the second episode! That’s rather ambitious although he is all ready a third of the way there. I just wonder if I’ll ever get to review the second episode and beyond, though, with demands like that.

Dead Cyborg is a mix of old school text-based adventures, point ‘n click adventures and more modern sci-fi titles, such as the aforementioned System Shock games, BioShock, Fallout, etc. You can see several similarities in theme throughout the episode.

Anyway, head over to HubPages to check it out. I was going to publish this as one of my Thrifty Thursday pieces, but I much prefer HP for reviews because the layout is more customizable.

New Review Published: Dead Cyborg

Direct2Drive Best of Indie Volume 3

Direct2Drive has done a couple of these deals before with Indie games.

This time in Volume 3, you can get Braid, Osmos, World of Goo, Cogs, Machinaruim, The Maw, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Aaaaa!, Puzzlegeddon, and Gish for $29.95.

“The Best of Indie Bundle – Volume 3 combines 10 previous finalists (and some winners!) from past Independent Games Festivals (IGF). The Independent Games Festival celebrates the best games from the indie development community, so you know these are the best of the best!!! Pick up the bundle now for $29.95 – that’s a savings of $105.55 if you were to purchase each of these games on their own.”

That’s a saving of $134.50 or so according to Big D, but $105.55 if D2D is to be believed. So you pay about 22% of the total price in this deal, or 78% off, if my calculations are correct.

The deal expires on the 12th of March, 2010.

Buy Best of Indie Bundle Vol. 3 from Direct2Drive

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Sources: [1] D2D - [2] Big Download

Direct2Drive Best of Indie Volume 3