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Zombie Pirates

Started by Tommy Brownell, September 03, 2010, 01:55:04 AM

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Tommy Brownell

September 03, 2010, 01:55:04 AM
So Zombie Pirates is kicking my butt right now, but it's kind of addictive.

It's the first game by Dust Devil Studios, which is made up in part by Pinnacle people (including Shane Hensley), and its a "casual game"...supposedly meaning no heavy investment on the part of players (my fairly low end laptop runs it fine)...but yeah, its zombies versus pirates.

The kicker for roleplayers is that Pinnacle has decided to bundle the PC game and Pirates of the Spanish Main rulebook together, so you get the PC game ($15) and you get PotSM (which includes the SW rules) absolutely free...and if Zombie Pirates (and thus Dust Devil) does well, we could get Savage Worlds properties turned into PC games.

Anyway...yeah...this is gonna kill my productivity for a while, I think.  I plan on having a full review up by next weekend, at least on my blog.
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September 03, 2010, 02:49:11 AM
That looks pretty cool and at a pretty bargain price.

Maybe this could serve as both my introduction to the Savage World rules and scratch that Monkey Island/Pirates of The Caribbean-itch I've been having lately.

The computergame, from the video it looks almost like Cannonfodder-with-pirate-ships, how much is strategy/intens mad clicking/adventure-game?
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Tommy Brownell

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September 03, 2010, 03:15:44 AM
Quote from: DKChannelBoredom;402700That looks pretty cool and at a pretty bargain price.

Maybe this could serve as both my introduction to the Savage World rules and scratch that Monkey Island/Pirates of The Caribbean-itch I've been having lately.

The computergame, from the video it looks almost like Cannonfodder-with-pirate-ships, how much is strategy/intens mad clicking/adventure-game?

It's a fair mix of strategy and rapid clicking.  I've ran in more than once half cocked and gotten obliterated, so I started all over again putting more thought into how I was using my units and had much greater luck.

That said, if you can't rapidly click, you're in for a world of hurt.  I just hit my first boss fight and my awesome performance in that level thus far went down the tubes because I had my ships in a bad formation and couldn't get them moved fast enough (I won...but my score suffered for it).
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