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Nobody says you have to make it in ONE jump. Jump to a star system as far away as you can, then land on a planet to refuel, then jump to the next star system and repeat until you reach your destination. Note: there's also a starship part that allows you to regain some fuel each day. It is the best part in the game - see if you can find one at a Ranger station, then stock up on Dominator nodes until you can buy it. Never having to land and refuel again is quite wonderful IMO. I also suggest you do the RTS missions when you find them. They pay very, very well, both in money and ship parts. If you want to be a pirate, I can suggest getting yourself a scanner. That way, you can scan potential marks (using the I key and clicking on them) to see what cargo they have in their hold. Just be careful the galactic cops don't come kick your ass. That's when you need to activate your booster. I just finished the game. Jolly good game.

Two highly underrated adventure games I just snagged off Ebay: Runaway - A Road Adventure. - From 2004. The game that will make tears come to the eyes of anybody nostalgic about the adventure games of olden times, the ones Lucasarts used to make before losing its soul and sense of humour. Runaway is a cartoon adventure with graphics very remniscent of an improved Monkey Island 3, with extra 3-D spiffiness to boot. Gameplay is in the same vein as the MI series - visit exotic locales, hunt for items and solve logical puzzles, you know the drill. Runaway's puzzles are both entertaining, often original and charming. Runaway has a lot going for it. To summarize, it has: 1) Excellent voice acting all around, especially in the case of the hitman duo Gustav and Feodor who chase the main character throughout the game. 2) Excellent cartoon graphics 3) Good soundtrack, fitting the game perfectly. 4) A storyline that's actually interesting and, most importantly, NO PLOT HOLES TO SPEAK OF, something very rare in indie-adventure games. The script and dialogue is well written and well played out, and it often feels just like watching a good movie. 5) An excellent ensemble of characters, including but not limited to: Fugitive Strippers, European gangsters, doped-up rastafarians, blonde hackers, Hispanic voodoo priestesses, former pro-athletes turned drag-queens and many more. All the characters in the game work. Bad points: 1) Has some pixel-hunting. I spent an hour looking around for some way to polish a statue, only to give up and look in the walkthrough, discovering that the sanding block was right next to a door opening I'd passed through a million times without noticing the tiny block on the ground. 2) Isn't that long. It's a bit longer than Full Throttle, and that's it. It's all awesome though. For anyone who longs for old-style adventure games, Runaway - A Road Adventure is a must buy. Where Monkey Island 3 is a 10, Runaway is a 9, maybe a 9.5. http://www.pendulostudios.com/runaway/eng_index.htm Second game: Faust - Seven Games of the Soul - From 1999 While Runaway is mainly light-hearted and with bright graphics, Faust is the opposite both in mood and graphics. The story revolves around an old man, Marcellus Faust, who, for reasons unapparent at first, is commisioned by Mephisto to be the judge of the lives of seven people living inside the amusement park of Dreamland in various periods of the 20th century, thus settling the dispute Mephisto has with "The Boss" about whether their souls go up. Or down. The game is divided into seven chapters, one for each case and each one devoted to a specific Deadly Sin. This is a very weird premise. And the game is also very weird. Played from a 360 degree rotational first person perspective, Faust must visit the places where the people to be judged lived and died, trying to piece together the nature of their lives, their deaths and the sins involved. Faust reminds me in many ways of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - both are journeys into the depths of human depravity and feature a kind of dull horror from start till finish. Faust is infinitely weirder though, even stranger than Sanitarium. Sometimes, you're transported to a new scene without explaining why, leaving you a bit confused, and some of the puzzles make little sense. For instance, in one scene, the way to activate a cutscene was to fix a flickering projector. The projector played no part in the actual cutscene, making the player wonder why it should be fixed at all. The game works however. The story is interesting for anyone who enjoys surrealistic computer gaming and is constantly surprising, Mephisto himself who guides you through the various cases is excellently voiced and animated, looking part suave gentleman and part feral beast, and the premise is sufficiently interested to make you keep playing. It's bloody hard though - I've had to resort to a walkthrough in the case of some of the more illogical puzzles. Highly recommended for fans of bizarre horror adventure games. Fans of Sanitarium should feel right at home.

I really don't think so either. In the case of Iran using nukes, everybody and their grandmother would just be ITCHING to retaliate the same way. It would be the end of Iran. However, according to an aquaintence of mine who has worked in the region (Iran, Syria, Saudi etc.) as an engineer for 15 years, the long-bearded bastards in Teheran would actually like for a limited-scale war with the Americans. They feel the pressure of liberal forces within Iranian society, and figure that a nice little war with the Great Satan would be just the thing for uniting the Iranian people under their leadership once again. If that is true, then bombing Iran might be unwise for the Americans. They should stage some kind of coup in Iran, if they're not actively trying now. It worked in Chile.

Played it. It seemed to have potential. Good idea using the SS engine for a more RPG-orientated kind of game as opposed to the squad-based Silent Storm series. The demo crashed constantly though, so I uninstalled. I won't be buying this, I think, because I dislike Night Watch as a movie and a setting, but I wish the developers good luck in this novel project.

Neat. The movie was pants, I'll see how the game holds up. Downloading....

Not guilty. Never have I ever gone to school drunk Guilty.

I find the English translation to be more than adequate, especially seeing as it's a Russian game that one of the actual programmers worked on translating into English. I only find one little difficulty with the translation: In one mission, you get told by the Phel'Eng to blow up a garbage truck ship as a bounty. You don't get told the name of the ship, meaning the mission is automatically a bust. I'm having trouble playing a straight trader though. I got tons of cash and neat spaceship parts by just flying around doing fedex missions, but buying and selling seems FAR less profitable, and the trading skill apparently doesn't influence it. Being a pirate is a little easier, except when the cops come to kick my ass. No problem, afterburner on, bye-bye. Incidentally, I strongly urge you to sell the dominator ship parts to the science space stations, as it's one of the ways to defeat the three Dominator supercomputers. For a FAQ, go here: http://www.octopusoverlords.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16820 has minor spoilers. Good points: Great alien races, good humour in mission briefings, interesting tactical ship combat, good RPG feel (hunting for better spaceship parts and developing your personal skills, good ranking system (you can win number 1 position as a fighter, trader or space pirate), BRILLIANT interface, best for that kind of game I ever saw, great "living world feel." Also has neat text adventure, Gradius space shooter and RTS minigames, which are all COMPLETELY OPTIONAL and all pretty enjoyable. This is an excellent game. I urge everybody to buy it, it has some for everybody.

Demo?

CAAAASABLANCA! B-Movie time: "You break my record. Now I break YOU! Like I break your friend"

Dude, that one's impossible. I just googled it, and it's for some recent console game I'd never even heard of. (I don't much like consoles)

Duke Nukem 3D. Easy. New quote: "How do I get outta this chickensh*t outfit?"

Humans?

Hint?

In other news, Metalheart sucks ass. Avoid.

Oh no, Snakemen are fine, and your game looks to have the potential to be excellent. I just think it's a little unimaginative, having snakemen in the game that look like exact copies of the Xcom ones. The rest of the aliens, and also the graphics of the game, look very well done and original, especially the equipment setup. Good design there. Good luck with the game.

As am I. Both the RTS and FPS genres have been done to death in the past years. The last FPS worth playing was NOLF, which rocked. Check this out: http://www.ufo-extraterrestrials.com/UFO_E..._base_room.html Those snakemen are total ripoffs.

Is it just me, or do eastern european gaming companies have a huge hardon for ripping off Xcom? UFO series, Silent Storm and now this. Not saying that this game won't be excellent, but seriously.....they even have Snakemen! Check the screenshot section on the official page.

Isn't it the other way around? I always assumed that it was.

Dunno, I've used Ebay two times to buy chop-socky movies from Asia, both times they came through excellently and for half the cost of finding them elsewhere. I'm currently buying two adventure games (Faust: Seven Games of the Soul and Runaway) over Ebay, which I unfortunately will have to borrow a credit card to pay for. Do you have bad experiences with Ebay?

I COULD, if my previous E-Mail address site hadn't died and gone to Cyber Heaven, meaning I can't access that email address, meaning I can't recover any old passwords. Now I can't buy those bloody games offa Ebay that I just won!

I really hate PayPal. Not only does it pretty much have a monopoly on online shopping and donating outside the huge charities, it also provides nil customer support, crappy FAQs and the assurance that if I don't like it, I can go blow a goat. And now it keeps me from registering my credit card, just because I used it on another now de-funct account on the same site, which was properly zapped. But noooo, no reusable credit cards here. PayPal is the antichrist.

I am totally drawing a blank here....

Harumph. Hopefully it'll be better than Aftershock... Screenshots look promising though. I like the mecha suit design.

Waaay older than that. It's one of the most classic lines of video gaming

I tried. Lag hell, couldn't play properly. Too many blades of grass all individually animated, eating CPU power. Didn't like the look of it though. Like Rainbow Six with topdown view. Stunted RPG system.