BMDC

My apologies for the silence the last few weeks.  There has been a lot of exciting things happening behind the scenes at BMDC, including a new global headquarters. Also, the show “How I Met Your Mother” has been discovered and lots of time has been spent watching back episodes.  My bad.  So there you go, after a visit from the technical team yesterday we are back and running at full speed with our cheetah blood and Herculean DNA. Yes I went there and yes we are way more awesome then some warlock.  #Wizard

Colonization Sim (PC)

Control: 10/15

Graphics 10/15

Fun Factor 10/20

This game felt, as a whole, incomplete.  I’ve played several city building games, and this one just seems to be missing something.  It does a lot of things well, but nothing great.  It seemed like I was doing a lot of waiting and when something would happen there was no real payoff.  The highlight of the game was when a competitors island had a volcano blow up on it.

I would recommend this game if you just have to have another colonization game.  The mouse control didn’t seem very intuitive, but keyboard and mouse are the way to play this one.  This game goes on sale on Steam a few times a year for $10-$15, I would definitely wait for a sale.

Sandbox (PC)

Control: 10/15

Graphics 10/15

Fun Factor 15/20

So here is a game I played on a console many years ago and did not enjoy at all.  Since then they updated the game with the Scholarship Edition and made several patches on the PC.  Fast forward to the other day, my friend is playing it and having fun and talks me into getting it too.  I concur that it is now a lot of fun.  Basically it is the PS2 era GTA only instead of being in a gang you are a student.  Nothing fancy, nothing special, just a ton of fun.

I recommend this game if you have an Xbox game pad for your pc and a few hours to kill.  Hold off for a sale price, if you can get it for $10 or less you’ll get your moneys worth out of it.

Plane Landing Sim (PC)

Control: 15/15

Graphics 14/15

Fun Factor 5/20

While I am writing these Steam is having sales.  Steam is always having sales.  So this game I bought yesterday since it was under $2 and was getting good review.  Here is the problem, the game is a port of an mobile game.  Therefore it feels woefully incomplete.  I didn’t feel like there was any point to landing all these planes.  The gameplay itself and the graphics are awesome.  This has potential to be something great.  However it needs a reason to keep playing.

I reccomend this game if you are buying it on a mobile device with a touch screen.  If you are buying it on the PC, don’t pay more $2 for it, since I don’t think it carries anymore value than that.

Fish Tank Sim (PC)

Control: 15/15

Graphics 7/15

Fun Factor 3/20

I’m not really sure how to describe this game.  What you see is what you get.  Basically this is like Farmville, but instead of planting crops you are feeding fish.  You have to check in on this game every couple hours, feed your fish and that is about it. I loaded it, played for a few minutes to complete the tutorial, then closed it.  I checked on it this morning and had to feed my fish and tend to a sick one.

I recommend this game if you like Farmville but wish it had more fish.  This is part of the Last Day of Work bundle, I wouldn’t buy the bundle unless it gets below $10, I would not buy the game by itself unless it is $2 or less.