Available on - Steam, XBLA and PSN
Score between 7 and 10 - 8(Good)
You may like Age of Booty if you like - Tower Defense games such as Ninja Town, Plants vs Zombies or Pixel Junk Monsters. Really though it reminds me of a board game about conquering territory brought into real time.
Game Concept - Age of booty is hard to instantly put into words, there isnt anything else I can think of that's exactly like it! Basically you play a pirate on a map with various towns, tribal huts and other pirate ships. You must go around the map taking over the villages before the rival pirates do so. The first to get a certain number of the towns wins the game. As time goes on though you face more and more opponents and are given more and more ships which assist in your goal. As you capture towns you gain resources periodically from them and when you reach a certain amount, you can upgrade your ships speed, armor or cannons. This makes the game a delicate dance of taking over enemy towns, protecting your own and grabbing resources and power ups!
Pros
---------------------------------
Lots of interactivity for this type of game - Games that are similar to AoB usually have you stationary or as a hand of God type, however much like Pixel Junk Monsters you play an active participant in the battle who must constantly be on the move! This means instead of the stratagy being on your management of resources and what you build its placed more on having to make split second decisions like going to defend a city under attack or pressing the offense on an opponents weak city while still actively moving and being involved in whats going on.
Multilayer - Gotta love games that offer up multi player maps, adds tons of replay value.
Map Editor - Again increasing the replay value is that the game comes with a map editor to design your own game maps.
Lot's of DLC - The game has several dozen extra maps available for free!
Cons
--------------------------------
Surround Sound Bass - Don't know if its the game or my surround sound but the bass was turned up too loud over the other music causing horrid sound quality on the PS3 version! Iv not had this problem with other games, but still could just be my speakers I guess.
No control over your team mates/meh A.I - A lot of the single player matches are still 2 on 3 or 3 on 3 and this leaves you reliant on your A.I. For the most part the A.I was pretty good, but there were still far too many times they would make a boneheaded mistake such as trying to take over another city when our final city was falling or sailing right past resource boxes for no good reason! The abilty to pause the game and input commands for your A.I ship mates would have been a huge plus!
DLC is multiplayer only - None of the DLC was more single player conent, it was all sadly multiplayer only :(
Closing Comments - I think the best recommendation that I can give Age of Booty is to say that iv bought the game twice and will buy it a third time if I see the steam version on sale. I paid the full $10 for the 360 version and $5 on PSN(though I am in a PSN game share group)and I do not regret a dime of it. The game was fun when I bought it on the 360 and played it straight through, and I am enjoying it just as much replaying it on the PS3 in 30 minute spurts. If your a fan of tower defense games or fast paced strategy games I think Age of Booty is worth a quick look, if nothing else all three platforms have demos available!
No comments:
Post a Comment