A slightly useful blog…

Recently I have been reviewing lots of games that you either have to download or buy. This time its something online and free!

Kitten Cannon is a simple game where you shoot a cat as far as possible. You only have 2 controls which is angle of fire and power. Simples! However on the playing field there are many items that will increase your distance such as TNT, trampolines and the very realistic nukes hanging from a single balloon. There are also items that will stop your kitten flying such as bloody spikes and Venus fly traps.

Pros:

• You can play it when annoyed with your cat (if you have one).

Cons:

• Its completely due to luck, gravity and randomness.
• Its a little bit cruel.

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Where to start? Basically this is a tower defence game with plants and zombies and after a quick game anyone will be a fan. The game basically consists of a massive hoard of zombies trying to get into your house and eat your brains. But don’t worry! Your brains will be defended by plants…

The first few levels are easy but the later levels prove extremely challenging. Later levels include weather conditions such as fog, eye, and night. Obviously day plants don’t work at night so you have a whole new array of plants to use during the dark hours.  Enemy zombies range from the comical simple dumb zombies with the occasional protective bucket on their head, to pole vaulting zombies which can leap over plants. Scary stuff! To fight back you have an ever increasing arsenal of plants in which sunflowers give you points which you can use to buy plants ranging from peashooters to melon lobbers.

The game proves very addictive as there is a constantly changing variety of plants and zombies. Graphics are pretty good. The thing I love the most about this game though is that now and again the zombies will send you messages about your demise…

Conclusion: Its a simple game with 50 levels, 26 types of zombies, 49 plants, a heap of mini-games, and an added Zen garden. It’s such good fun you will find yourself playing it over and over again. For the price we got it at (3 for £10 deal at GAME) you would be stupid not to give it a go! Below is a link to a free online demo to try the game out!

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I have been playing this game for a while now and at only £3 this game is a complete bargain. Then again its hard not to be worth that amount of money.

Released in 2009 FUEL was released for PC, 360 and PS3. The game is set in an ‘alternate present’ where America has become no-go areas as global warming takes its toll. Basically everyone has abandoned the land and only adrenaline junkies and a limited supply of fuel is left (Its not really limited though. There is more fuel there than there are balls in a ball pit). The whole apocalyptic nature is true throughout the game. Coastal regions are decimated by tsunamis and bush fires have decimated most of the forests in the game.

The game boasts over 14,000 square kilometres of free roam which is extremely impressive. Free roam is amazing in this game but however entirely pointless as all races and challenges can be accessed from the career menu. However I think the game designers realised and decided to put in liveries (custom paint jobs) for vehicles dotted over the map. They also put in ‘vista points’ which is basically a point where you can see the whole of the beautiful map from one point. Nice… for about 5 seconds before you realised you spent about 20 minutes of free roam to get there! These liveries and vista points aren’t on the map to start with though. You can either find them randomly on the map or you can go and ram a ‘doppler truck’ which will give you the locations of all of the points.

Ramming a truck? Yes ramming a truck… Throughout the free-roam there are no other players apart from trucks transporting things around the map. However when you do finally spot a competitor you are told ‘A bandit has been spotted’ and you are then instructed to go and crash into them to win their vehicle. Normally its a motorbike or a quad which when hit the driver will be flung across the road thus killing them. Surely if it really is a barren wasteland then it might be good to talk to someone occasionally?

However there are some truly amazing things in this game such as the map discussed earlier, the vehicle handling is the best I have experienced in a driving game , and the graphics are sublime. However on my 8600GT turning down the graphics seems to make no difference to the fps as its the generation of the map that causes the slowness not graphics.

The game supports controllers which makes things better but in the same way that a stapler might be an advantage in a fight with a bear! Whilst driving the controller is a god send but it doesn’t work in any of the menus at all. This resulted in me having to swap continuously between keyboard and controller leaving me with no hair. However with the amount of loading that it takes to get from menu to menu and menu to game I had plenty of time to grow it back.

The game comes packaged with that windows live thingy which annoys the hell out of me as I have to be connected to the internet to save my game and also being informed to login every time i want to play the game. The sound of engines is about as dull as being out of eggs and flour on pancake day. It also proves extremely choppy and has random sounds when changing from sound to sound.

Conclusion: Well its certainly worth the money and with a decent PC then its going to be amazing. I really have complained to much about this game as all bad points can be forgiven because of the engaging game play, mind blowing map and the intense graphics.