I’m playing on the original giant Duke controller for Xbox and there’s more buttons on this thing than on the bridge of the USS Enterprise so I decide to try out the tutorial, of which there are 3. Predator: Concrete Jungle Starting Screen The starting screen really draws from a Predator 2 vibe, featuring an animated screen of the Predator crouching atop of a clock tower.
When the code of honour….” Yawn, to sum it up, You play the Predator hunting in a city environment, Predator tech has fallen into the hands of evil men and the Predator must restore his honour by killing everybody involved. “Banished on a remote planet for 100 years, the Predator Returns to Earth in 2030, seeking to redeem itself for a century-old transgression.
Released at a time when a good video game manual was a rarity, I had to resort to reading the back of the box to get an idea of the storyline. Released on Xbox and PS2 in 2005, Eurocom’s 3rd Person Action Game: P redator: Concrete Jungle draws upon material inspired by the movies and Dark Horse’s comic book run. Can we can have a couch/local co-op mode in the sequel please? I think this game is nearly at an endīonus points for the catchy soundtrack that plays throughout the game, it’s a nice little ear worm that I heard my wife playing, later, on her ukulele.įor under the price of four gourmet take away coffees (that’s under £10) this is an excellent casual puzzler that will keep you coming back for more as you try to surpass your previous play-through attempts and compete against other players on the global high score board (I’m struggling to achieve 10,000pts). With power ups, global high score boards, achievements and multiple ways to play, Washed Up is a worthy entry to your game collection. It’s only when playing the game you come to realise what a fiendish and addictive puzzler Washed Up is.
The additional game mechanics of the game are thoroughly explained through a series of easy to follow tutorials and the user interface is frighteningly easy to pick up. You can’t help but be spellbound by the polish and presentation from the aquatic intro screen and music to the game art style, graphics and in game effects. Upon playing it, you’ll discover it’s much more than a clone of the Eastern block puzzler (pun intended). The blocks themselves are washed ashore to the left and right hand side of your playing area, so you have an influx of blocks from two different directions to deal with as you manoeuvre the pieces to form squares instead of lines. Upon first glance it looks like a simple variation of Tetris with a bigger play area that allows the player to position the block pieces from four different directions utilising an army of crabs.
Add a pinch of local talent, hard work and inspiration and you get Washed Up. The original seeds for the game were sown at the 2017 Global Games Jam event where teams from around the world attempt to produce a game over 48 hours based on a given theme. On October 16th, local independent game development team Old Doorways unleashed their indie puzzle game, Washed Up, on the world via the digital distribution platform Steam.