Darwinia

[Venmoch]

The demo of Introversion Software's (Previously they did Uplink) Darwinia has been released and frankly it is a must play. Only way to describe it is a little of a mixture of Black and White and a typical RTS with Tron thrown in for good measure.

OK so its almost impossible to describe but its damn worth playing if you like PC games dammit!

Web Page: http://www.darwinia.co.uk/about/index.html

Downloads Page: http://www.darwinia.co.uk/downloads/index.html

Now what are you still doing here! Its only 11mb and it'll run on any PC with a pulse (Well the PC equivilent of a pulse, oh and you'll need DX9.)

 

[StardogChampion]

Cool game, how do I get accross to the mines once i've activated the Refinery?

 

[Venmoch]

You take control of the radar dishes and point them at each other to create a link that you can send your soldiers through.

 

[guchi]

ive read about this, and ive been waiting to try it out. i like Introversion quite alot and what they are trying to do.

 

[Axyon]

That was good fun, although the spiders did give me a lot of problems. So many good squadmembers died to their evil ways... *sniff*.

 

[StardogChampion]

I figured out the radar dishes eventually . And yes, those spiders are insanely tough. I didn't see a save game option in the menu, but I guess it'll be in the final version. I quit after I got to the main mining island, 2 radar jumps away. The spiders were annoying me too much.

Also, what does the flying red thing do? It drops little teardrop type things that you can destroy.

 

[guchi]

hmmm... it doesnt seem to work... it says the file i downloaded isnt a win32 program...

 

[Venmoch]

Odd.

The best way to deal with the spiders is either grenades/rockets/Airstrikes.

Rockets "should" be the easiest but my squaddies keep getting caught in the blast... So far the best thing I've found is useing grenades when they turn. That seems to do it quite nicely. And as far as the flying things? I believe the eggs they lay make the nasty arrow infestation stuff. Which I didn't realise was evil till my sqaud got vaporised .

Also does this game seem to have a distinct Cannon Fodder influence to it?

 

[Brian Damage]

Use airstrikes to take out the viral worm nests, use rockets on the spiders, rocket the large dragons, then kill their parts with laser fire, and wait until the floaters are down low, then hit them with repeated rockets or as many successive airstrikes targeted right below them as are available.

The floaters actually seem to produce a far nastier white viral worm, which appears to take two shots to kill, the red ones only taking one.

Use officers to direct your darwinians, the best way being to set a rally point, then make the officer march around the map, "ordering" darwinians to the rally point as soon as it gets near enough to them.

Regarding rockets: Best to be higher than what you're firing at, and make sure there's nothing blocking your line of sight.

This game ROCKS.

 

[Venmoch]

This game ROCKS.

Damn right! So much so that after my first game I went and brought it.

 

[Foxtrot]

This game blows, how to I get my guys to use grenades and stuff? They just shoot normal laser...things.

 

[Axyon]

This game blows, how to I get my guys to use grenades and stuff? They just shoot normal laser...things.

It tells you in the help to press left click while firing lasers.

 

[Foxtrot]

It never told me, and the graphics on this game BLOW, my eyes hurt after watching that crap for half an hour.

 

[Axyon]

It never told me, and the graphics on this game BLOW, my eyes hurt after watching that crap for half an hour.

Someone else explain, I don't think I can be bothered

 

[Brian Damage]

Right click while holding down the left mousebutton.

And if your eyes are troubled by the pixelisation shader the game uses, just turn it off in the options menu.

 

[Foxtrot]

Someone else explain, I don't think I can be bothered

But you can be bothered to type that up? I understand the setting, tron ripoff, I just think they could have done a better job with the color contrast so my eyes don't bleed after playing it.

 

[Danimal]

It never told me, and the graphics on this game BLOW, my eyes hurt after watching that crap for half an hour.

Graphics whore? :|

 

[Axyon]

But you can be bothered to type that up? I understand the setting, tron ripoff, I just think they could have done a better job with the color contrast so my eyes don't bleed after playing it.

I have no problems with the contrasts, and personally think it's a rather beautiful game. Sure, it doesn't use hyper-super parralax specularation mapping or whatever, but it has a rather elegant quality to it.

 

[CrazyHarij]

Personally, I like the graphics.. They have a very nice sense of nostalgia, the "sprite" shader for characters is a good touch. But I don't think it's the graphics that are supposed to matter (In my opinion it's a little sad that it is automatically assumed that the opposite is the case), but the innovative style combined with the atmosphere of old classic games is what makes Darwinia fun.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Ooooooooh... confusing.