September 13, 2010 – 10:17 am
Ruse is marketed as a new breed of WWII RTS. One that lets you carefully mull over your orders on a huge tactical board before deploying devious strategies to trick and confuse your opponents. This, unfortunately, is a ruse in itself (sigh – ed). Throughout the Campaign and few skirmishes I’ve played, Ruse has yet to surprise, or indeed impress with anything new. In fact, it feels rather familiar. The campaign, to start, is a normal RTS campaign. You play as Joe – a complete dickhead of a commander coming through the ranks who seems to go out of his…
By Craig Lager
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Posted in Review
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Also tagged Awaited Messiah, Campaign Mission, Devious Strategies, General Nonsense, Genre, Inauthenticity, Military Command, Missions, Multiplayer Modes, New Breed, Normandy, Opponents, PC Gaming Nonsense, rts, Ruse, Ruses, Skirmish, Skirmishes, Starcraft, Tooth And Nail, Voice Work, Wwii
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September 13, 2009 – 6:03 pm
It’s easy to underestimate the power of extra voice acting to draw you into a game. I don’t mean audio logs, but rather the little moments where a foe will respond to you or act without your intervention, adding character to these faceless entities and more reason as to why you are shooting X and Y in the face. Such snippets of personality can make you feel guilty, let you be vindicated as you mow down such cannon fodder. Shit, did I just stab a dad to be? Or take out a indiscriminate murderer? Perhaps both? Those kinds of elicit…
By Ed Fenning
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Posted in PC Gaming Nonsense
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Also tagged Action Games, Bioshock, Cannon Fodder, Conversations, Crying Shame, Dialogue, Entities, Foe, fps, Girlfriend, grenade, Hitman Blood Money, Impressions, Little Moments, Max Payne 2, Murderer, Old Granny, Rea, Rem, Rundown, Snippets, Stab, Stealth Games, Stranger, Thief, Unfortunatley, Voice Acting
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