L is for Lamentable landscapes. Clumsily created and employed, AI art can ruin otherwise sound computer games. For proof of this, look no further than Frontline: Assault Corps, a £12 hex wargame in which southern Italy looks awfully like the Eastern Front, visuals and underlying terrain types barely correlate, and isometric battlefields are dotted with bizarre architecture and baffling objects.
Drydock Dreams Games has decided to give away four digital copies of uncommonly photogenic Task Force Admiral to four talented screengrabbers, and, as it was an email from Yours truly that prompted this act of beneficence, I’ve been invited to choose one of the prize winners.
G is for Green Tree Games gird their loins. Announced in the year the RAF retired its last Hawker Herbert, and the Pope described hula hoops as “Satan’s bangles” in his Easter address, Burden of Command has a precise release date at long last.
Move over DUSK, Strafe, and HROT; I think Venturous qualifies as my favourite fuddy-duddy FPS now. I was planning to mention this free, standalone Doom 2 total conversion in the current A2Z, but recent experiences in Egyptian tombs and Tibetan monasteries have convinced me it warrants its own post.
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
If you want the second part of March’s alphabetised news round-up, you’re going to have to thank me profusely for this part, and give me preferential extraction rights for all your titanium, zirconium, lithium, and graphite.
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.
I felt my last Task Force Admiral demo clash went rather well. No US vessels ended up at the bottom of the Coral Sea. The Yorktown’s winged minions well and truly clobbered the Shōkaku, losing just one Dauntless in the process. And, with a little help from AA gunners, my CAPering Wildcats downed fifteen enemy aircraft without loss. When the outcome screen declared this impressive feat a ‘strategic defeat’ and a ‘tactical draw’, I sulked for a good five minutes.