As the sellotape used to attach this demo disc to the THC front cover is specially designed to be impervious to scraping fingernails and to deface the glossy cover art when removed, we recommend you enjoy what you can see of the scantily clad elven archer pincushioning the muscle-bound orc warrior, before attempting separation.
This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a whizz at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not lend a hand.
Stretcher Men’s lovely wind-ruffled menu screen has to be worth a 9. Maddening fixed cameras and a bizarre approach to pathfinding mean I’d struggle to award the game itself more than a 2.
If you think yesterday’s most remarkable sporting feat occurred in France and involved Jessica Fox, Léon Marchand, or Adriana Ruano, you clearly haven’t heard about what Froggster achieved in a leafy corner of Wiltshire. Less than twenty four hours ago, with a little help from friends, this gifted, self-taught defoxer found the hiding place of the fabulous Fox d’Or.
Since her birth late last year, Ada, my Cornerite-specced PC, has hosted around sixty different games and game demos. Of that sixty, I can’t think of any that have entertained me as consummately as the astonishing Rush Rally 3.
Campaigns on the Danube, Radio General, Peter Turcan’s Waterloo… a few of the games that cantered through my mind while I was playing the petite prototype of this hopefully-still-in-production Eighteenth Century wargame.
Assuming I pull my finger out, and don’t encounter any insoluble problems during testing, this year’s play-by-comment CM session will commence next Tuesday. Currently, it’s looking like there will be slots for six players. Chances are, three of those slots will be reserved for airlifters – the generous readers whose subscriptions are all that stands between Tally-Ho Corner and instant extinction.
You have to admire the brutal honesty on show in the 25-minute post-mortem video embedded below the break. According to studio head, Griffin Johnson, Armchair History Interactive embarked on their first wargame without a clear plan and proceeded to make a string of classic beginner’s mistakes.