LordsAWar! 0.1.3
LordsAWar! reached an (unstable) 0.1.3 release. After installing some game-uncommon libraries and compiling for half an hour, I expected to move some units around for some turns and stop playing from being bored. But actually, I enjoyed the simple game rules.
LordsAWar! has decent graphics and good music. I like very much that the game cares about the player by providing a 'restore crashed game' button. The game did crash once, but think I shouldn't have started it together with an other app from the same command line and then moved the game window while it was generating a level... :) Actually LordsAWar! makes a stable impression.
The only thing that confused me in some situations is the path finding. Units would walk in a zig-zag pattern instead of straight lines. I think this might be because vertical/horizontal and diagonal movement is equally expensive and that the behavior is not a bug.
After the absence of an official OpenArena release for a while, 0.8.1 was recently uploaded. It weights one map more (+3-2) compared to 0.8.0 and features a new hit sound (one of the most important parts of any Quake-related game).
Commander Stalin 0.9.3
Commander Stalin's latest version, 0.9.3, was released for Windows and Linux systems. It's a RTS that appears to just replace most of Bos Wars' media. There is no single-player campaign unfortunately.
Today I understood what the game's Stalin-theme might be all about: a parody of Red Alert! However, I feel discomfort with the media of the game: for Charles II's sake, half of this CD's audio tracks is distributed with the game! (Yes, someone owns the exclusive copyright on these re-mastered communist songs.)
I agree that the music fits the theme, but such practice is not legal. Nor is it very original.
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Concerning LordsAWar, I'd say that 1.3 is a stable release. Though it's linked on the project's mainpage as unstable, if one looks into the download directory, there's already a file for version 1.4. So my guess would be that 1.4 is the unstable release, and the homepage just hasn't been updated yet. Either way, great game!
Q, have you tried FreeLords lately? Is LordsAWar much further along in playability?
rabyte: heh, good thing I tested the svn version :)
charlie i mean free gamer: nope, can't remember ever having played freelords.
Copyright is counterrevolutionary, comrade! Heh.
XD
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