Nice. Now lets have an Android version.
Judge Dredd vs Zombies
Cop of the future Judge Dredd has been pounding the streets of Mega City One since 1977, but it took host comic 2000AD's acquisition by software developer Rebellion in 2000 to see the lawman to star in a decent videogame. Dredd has appeared on the PC, the PlayStation and the Xbox, and now he's meting out justice, shot by shot, …
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Sunday 11th December 2011 13:15 GMT Andy Watt
Truth hurts?
Is he a dick for telling it? Plenty of evidence out there suggests he's right. Higher per head spend in the app store. People buy more apps there. The buildup of libraries and experience will go where the money is - why would it go anywhere else, for the quality stuff?
OK, the comment was brusque, but slagging him off like a schoolchild just because he spoke an inconvenient truth doesn't exactly throw kudos at you.
I'd add that the profusion of hardware and OS levels doesn't help android in this regard. The landscape's a mess, OK there are plenty of coping strategies, but it's simpler to dev in AppleWorld. And possibly get paid for your efforts.
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Thursday 8th December 2011 16:18 GMT Anonymous Coward
Freemium?
The key point of the freemium games is the "free" part.
I don't mind games which have annoying "pay real cash to upgrade things" options, and I don't mind good quality games that I have to pay for. But a game should be one or the other, in my book.
If I've paid for it, then I shouldn't have to pay more for a better experience.
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Thursday 8th December 2011 23:13 GMT Pascal Monett
Apparently, they don't need to think about it.
Enough people do so to make it worthwhile.
And not just in handheld/mobile titles either. Take Brink for instance. I got it last week-end for 6€ over Steam. It's a shooter with a bit of RPG thrown in to make for a change in gameplay every now and then. Of course, if you pay money you can unlock better weapons faster, and improve your alter-ego's abilities faster as well.
What this means is that there are enough people globally who do pitch in with their wallets to have a major PC title based on that revenue stream, enough so that they agreed to lower the admission price to a ridiculously low level for a game that has basically just came out.
I mean, it's not like Battlefield III is ever going to reach that price, now is it ?
So this is a real thing, and there is every reason in the capitalistic world to not ignore it.
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Sunday 11th December 2011 13:10 GMT Graham Marsden
Paying for top-ups...
Many years ago you could play games like Space Invaders and those which followed for one 10p coin, one play.
Then came games like Gauntlet where (unless you were incredibly skilled) you had to keep shoveling in coins in order to get further into the game (or not play, which I did).
This paying for top-ups is the same thing, writ on new technology.
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Friday 9th December 2011 16:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
Anti-hero
He's part of a paramilitary authoritarian government. He spends his days metering out harsh punishments without a trial of peers, without oversight and often enough without basic human qualities like mercy. Not to mention he's executed hundreds of people in the street. This is all part of his job too, what he's paid to do and not some additional risk he's taking upon himself. All of which makes him the opposite of what we'd traditionally describe as a hero. It might even be a stretch to call him an anti-hero (a protagonist without the qualities of a true hero), in any other world than that depicted in the comics he'd be a 'really bad guy'.
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Friday 9th December 2011 16:55 GMT Keep Refrigerated
Sabbat
Ah yes, I stand corrected. I forgot about Judgement Day, it's been many moons since I picked up 2000AD or a Dredd comic.
Still, does this game actually feature Sabbat or any semblance of a storyline along the lines of Judgement Day? I'd still like to see the Dark Judges feature, though - surely Boing! miracle plastic would make a great bonus weapon.
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Friday 9th December 2011 11:06 GMT Ru
Always with the zombies
Perusing cheap downloadable game lists on any number of platforms reveals a woeful amount of zombies. Apart from the momentarily interesting self-referentiality of it all (a horde of shambling, soulless games with shambling, soulless antagonists...) it shows a pretty distressing lack of imagination :-(
Speaking of which... comparing a top-down shooter with angry birds, a physics game? That's pretty poor. It has more in common with hungry, hungry hippos or pokemon. Or did you think that no-one would understand you're talking about mobile gaming without mentioning AB?
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