Traveling vertically has always been a challenge, we only just got our heads around rocket travel, and helicopters are too infeasible for daily travel, that’s why a hallmark of any good sci-fi story is the hover transport. Following the American Dream along the Z axis, … Continue reading Beam Breakers (2002)
As I mentioned in my previous review of SimCity, creativity is at the heart of the long-standing franchise. Yet it’s hard to let your creative juices flow when your nagging citizen demand non-combustible housing and buses that run on time. What is a megalomaniac public … Continue reading SimCity Societies (2007)
God Games, the megalomania simulator where your every whim is enacted by the most loyal virtual simulations, it is easy to see why they are popular, However, the most prolific games usually get you to recreate a previous successful civilisation’s exploits, but what if you … Continue reading Empire Earth III (2007)
Crowdsourcing can make dreams a reality… whether they have any right to exist or not. In 2014 a crowdsourcing campaign attempted to bring back a game franchise into the 21st century, in doing so took that game in a new direction, a game that inspired … Continue reading Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn (2018)
As seen in some of the other products I’ve mentioned, a sense of ego can be detrimental as well as essential when it comes to broadening your career and branching out into new horizons, but when you’re proposing to attempt something so utterly novel, Ego … Continue reading Shaq Fu (1994)
The Xmas season is big bucks in the video game world and pre-1983, this was doubly so. When veteran video game designer Howard Scott Warshaw, gets handed a blockbuster movie franchise, it’s a match made in heaven. But when the deadline is six weeks away … Continue reading E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
As the band Tears for Fears famously sang “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”. We all sit in our armchairs, tutting at the news, writing articles upon articles about how we would have done things differently. For the betterment of humanity, or your own personal … Continue reading Superpower 2 (2004)
