Games Revue

In the world of Cortex Command, many humans have opted to amputate their entire natural bodies in order to prolong their lives and enable interstellar space travel. Their disembodied brains are hardly helpless, however, as they can remotely control all kinds of machines and craft through artificial interfaces.

Playing as one of these people’s brains, you can quickly switch control between many different expendable bodies in order to complete otherwise dangerous tasks – all from the physical safety of your command bunker. Use these technological powers of telepathy to collect gold out of the fully destructible terrain, then purchase even more bodies and materiel with those newly acquired funds!

You can even program the crude A.I.s of your puppet army to complete simple tasks (patrolling, digging, etc.) while your attention and direct control is somewhere else. Use your accumulated forces to protect your brain, explore the world, and defeat your competition!

Cortex Command! Although still a work in progress, already features a strong skirmish mode and support for up to four players in splitscreen. It was recently nominated as Finalist in the Independent Games Festival 2009.

Dynamic 2D pixel graphics coupled with an extremely detailed physics engine makes for replayable and emergent gameplay.

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at the edge of Human Space, a Viking-class gunship approaches. Mistaking you for a harmless craft, the Viking attacks, but its thin hull is no match for the blast of your slam cannon.Looting the Viking‘s wreck, you consider your path. The next system is filled with Slavers and your armor needs repair. Push on towards the Core or backtrack to a safe port?

Domina awaits you at the Galactic Core and with her hangs the fate of the Galaxy. Will her powers be enough to overcome the ancient malevolence known as Oracus? And what role will you play?

Leaving the floating wreck behind, you thrust towards the stargate at the edge of the system. Your journey continues.

Yep another space simulator, Transcendence looks pretty nice, here’s the feature list

• Explore dozens of randomly generated star systems. No two games are ever the same.

• Fight over a hundred different kinds of enemy ships and stations, each with distinct abilities.

• Loot wreckage to obtain more powerful weapons, armor, and shields. Or purchase them at dozens of different friendly stations.

• Escort transports for Korolov Shipping, smuggle illegal items for the Black Market, or join the Commonwealth Fleet and fight against the Ares Orthodoxy.

Battleships Forever
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Battleships Forever is a freeware tactical Real Time Strategy game that put’s you in command of a small fleet of warships in space. Combat and damage mechanics are extremely detailed. Everything is simulated in game if possible. There are no abitrary “to hit chance” values in Battleships Forever. The game also features many innovative mechanics that you’ve never seen before. For example, the Cronus Battleship sports a Flux Shield generator that allows you to draw a defensive force shield around your ships in any shape you want. Another example are the Deflector modules that are used extensively through the game. These modules make a single section of a ship totally invulnerable to fire. This means that you will have to manoeuvre your ships to attack sections of the enemy ships not protected by Deflectors while keeping your own protected sections facing the enemy. Position is paramount!

Players will command picked fleets made up of Battleships, Destroyers and Patrol Craft. The completed game will include ten campaign missions and multiple skirmish modes.

Battleships Forever is inspired by and loosely based on Warning Forever by Hikoza.T.Ohkubo

Screenshots

A formation of ships

Pew pew laser beams!

About The Ships
Each warship is modeled to meticulous detail. Your ships can be controlled to drift in one direction while facing another direction for strafing attacks. Each section of your ship is an object on it’s own. If a section is destroyed, any child sections that were connected to the core of your ship through that section will also be destroyed.

This section-based modular ship system makes positioning very important. Take the Hestia-Class Assault Destroyer for example; It’s sections and weapons are swept forward allowing it to concentrate it’s fire to the front. At the same time, the Hestia is vulnerable to rear attacks which can destroy it’s wing’s connection strut, thus destroying the entire wing in one blow.

There are 17 playable ships available:

• Cronus Battleship
• Peitho Armoured Battlecruiser
• Hecate Dreadnought
  • Athena Advanced Dreadnought
• Arcas Carrier
• Hestia Assault Destroyer
  • Hestia Alpha
• Enyo Cruiser
• Oenone Beam Destroyer
  • Oenone Delta
• Helios PointDefence Destroyer
• Tmolus Bombardier
• Moira Torpedo Destroyer
  • Moira X
• Proteus Gunship
• Zelus Attack Boat
• Thetis Drone Carrier

In the campaign and skirmish modes, you will face more than fifty types of enemy craft!

About The Weapons
Each turret is individually articulated and has its own firing arc, range, turning speed and health. Turrets can be individually destroyed in order to de-tooth an enemy. Beams will even rake across the enemy ship’s hull, tracing out a trail of destruction. Individual turrets can even be targeted and sniped off.

Active defences are also a major part of your tactics in Battleships Forever. Many ships are equipped with interceptor turrets that shoot down incoming projectiles. Maximizing your interceptor coverage to nullify enemy firepower is the key the victory.

Robots are always bastards. There’s no way around it. We build them and they killed us all. Well almost all, I’m the Earth’s last survivor. But with my time traveling groundhog sidekick I’m going to destroy the robot liberation army and take back Earth.

via Kloonigames.

This is a cool little freeware game where you control humanity’s last survivor (Aided by his pet groundhog) in his revenge against the BASTARD ROBOTS that have exterminated humanity. The game’s claim to fame is it’s unique death mechanism in which your past self can come to the aid of your future self. Or is that present? It’s very confusing, but fun!

Another 48-hour contest! The theme was “Preparation: Set it up and let it go”, so I made this game. It’s an RPG game, except all you do is the shopping, then you sit back and watch how well your preparations worked for your automatically controlled character (for those not in the know, NPC means ‘Non Player Character’ in role-playing parlance). There’s still quite a bit of strategy to it, and it’s pretty fun. Try to get a high score, and tell us about it on the forum! By the way, before playing, READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!! This isn’t the version created in 48 hours. This version adds a ton of vast improvements, though the original may have been better balanced. It was certainly easier!

via NPC Quest.

An interesting variation on the usual RPG from Hamumu software. Does it ever feel like you’re not really in control of the characters, just going through the motions? Well remove any doubt with NPC quest.:)