Trowzers

Simple, effective TD game that will keep entertaining for a long time without a load of stuff to learn before you can play. And family friendly too! Despite the zombies in the title.

I am a big fan of the SimCity games, and I remember first playing this back at release in 2003 and enjoying it immensely. However on my current PC the game is randomly crashing and I havent' been able to fix it up as yet, so i guess I will have to wait for my next dose of SimCity nostalgia :(

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

I loved playing with the creature creator... I just wish the game it was attached to had been what we all *thought* it would be - a game that would really pit our creations against the environment and against eat other (and perhaps with the hilarious possibility of breeding them). Instead, what could have been a vivid, evolving game environment created by player creativity and luck became a bog-standard linear type game with a few mini-games thrown in. I still hope someone will make the game spore could have been, but until then I can make creatures and dream.

I guess I can be a bit girly when it comes to games- I'm not a big fan of blood and gore and FPS's, but give me a good strategic game with interesting puzzle-type content and I'm there! Along with the Civilization Series (well, the earlier games in that series) this is one of my all time favourites! I just wish there were more games that build upon this type of concept rather than the raft of FPS clones that seem to be flooding the market at the moment :( :( And don't forget, there is multiplayer, but the single player campaigns aren't just an afterthought to the multiplayer like some games, they are fun and intriguing in their own right!

Strange, I didn't have any of the problems with this game Zenkel had (haven't seen these complaints on the forums either). I usually get tired of games very quickly (for instance, Wow lasted 3 months, most other MMO's lasted only a month before I was sick of grind and unfriendly atmosphere) yet I've been playing this game since I got into the beta testing about a year ago and I'm still not tired of it! The environment is extremely user-friendly and co-operative, the enemies are challenging and require thought and skill to kill effectively, and there always seems to be something new to strive for (a friend just helped me craft a Grey Owlite shield, which I'm immensely pleased with - nothing like casually strolling through flame puppies breath!) I guess it's the comment about the art direction that annoys me most - dozens of unique characters in an original art style, with interesting enemy AI and lovely background art and music, and all you can mention is you were annoyed by the camera???? :/ Anyways, I love this game. My friends are all eagerly playing, and even if there have been quibbles during development, the game has developers who *listen* and respond to player feedback - which is something common to all of Three Rings games. Go play and see for yourself!