The new Guardian Heroes doesn’t make the best first impression. You may have already heard preview grumblings from players and fans deriding the new visual filters, and even when you run the game for the first time, the interface is a mess, the combat’s a bit strange and the game doesn’t help you figure out either one. You’ll feel compelled to turn off the game and never play it again.
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While we may never see another true Marble Madness game again, we do have a few alternatives that might satisfy fans of that ball-rolling arcade classic. Not into monkeys in plastic balls? No problem! Mercury Hg is here to help. It’s a downloadable sequel to the Mercury Meltdown series, and it expands on the formula while still managing to keep the core concepts feeling fresh. READ MORE
In the new podcast, the crew helps pitch in to help out an under-the-weather Graham with hosting duties. Topics include the upcoming games that are keeping their wallets empty (like Uncharted 3, Skyrim, Kirby’s Return to Dream Land and Halo Anniversary), the effects Steve Jobs had on the game world, the new PS2 Classics on PSN and more. They also name the Second Bravest Publisher in America and discuss shady GamePorium policies.
Check out the show here or use the RSS feed in your favorite podcast aggregator. Let us know what you think!
Hosts: Matthew Jay, Gerry Pagan, Graham Russell, Shawn Vermette
Music: NBA Jam ‘From Downtown’: Kunal Majmudar/Steve Lella/Mustin, OverClocked ReMix (http://www.ocremix.org)
Orcs Must Die! is an action tower defense game where you play as a recently slain warmage’s apprentice, charged with defending valuable castles and keeps. The apprentice both sets the towers and traps and engages in combat personally, in the midst of the fray. There are very few other games with this formula (like Lock’s Quest, Trenched and Sanctum) and there are a lot of things that can go wrong in a game like this. It’s difficult to find tower defense games that are appropriately balanced, challenging, and controlled. It seems most either have an unfriendly interface or towers that worthless and a handful that you can stick with consistently. READ MORE
Everyone does Top 10 Games lists. The problem with those? Usually, they’re full of games that earn a place because of nostalgia or industry significance. Here at Snackbar Games, we like being a little more practical: if you’re looking to just have fun, what games should you pick up a controller and play today? This time, we’re looking at Sega’s 16-bit console, the Genesis.
