Comments on: Games For 2008: Multiwinia

By: KBKarma

KBKarma — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:13:32 +0000

Yeah, I’m looking forward to this one.

I will admit however, that I never actually finished it.

Not many people have, afaik. I sure haven’t. I keep getting caught robbing banks. Like some kind of high-tech but inept bank-robbing person you see in those TV shows about stupid criminals.

By: Kast

Kast — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:19:33 +0000

Those poor widdle Darwinians :( Fighting and killing each other. Here’s hoping their souls remain intact and as such return to the land to be reincarnated like before. As such no more Darwinians will trully die, never again after the Soul Destroyer viruses took so many from us.

I’ll burn every Gaulish town I come to for them daring to kill the heir to my shining Roman Empire. I will obliterate the entire world under a nuclear holocaust in DEFCON. I will frame a man for rape, murder and political engineering then destroy his company’s computer networks for the fun of it in Uplink. But I will fight tooth and nail to save every last little Darwinian and compulsively clear each island of red infection before continuing. It will be so terrible to see them slaughter one another in pointless, innocence-lost conflict.

By: Rich Powers

Rich Powers — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:26:35 +0000

Picked up Darwinia for $6 at Big Lots a few months back. Funny how that bargain bin steal turned out to be one of the best games I’ve played in yearss.

A multiplayer version will sell volumes over Steam I’m sure, especially if Valve discounts the game like it does with most Introversion titles.

By: MaW

MaW — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:08:09 +0000

Multiwinia’s going to be completely different to Defcon, I’m sure. I can’t get my head around Defcon at all, it has to be said. I had some fun playing it (and some nightmares afterwards, that game is CREEPY), but…

Still, I rank Darwinia as one of the best games I’ve ever played, and can’t wait to get my hands on Multiwinia and start smashing those evil differently-coloured Darwinians to pixel dust.

Oh no, what did I just say! Ban the game now!

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:32:00 +0000

Mm. Didn’t care for Defcon (although I am apparently the only one). Doesn’t make me hugely excited about this. Although to be fair, competitive multiplayer is not really my thing.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:09:36 +0000

*Gets hose*

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:15:21 +0000

Er… fixed?

By: Feet

Feet — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:01:41 +0000

And you call it Horse and Blade several times. I mean really you should call it Horse and Sword, if you’re not going to refer to it by its actually name of Mount and Blade. You sillies.

By: fluffy bunny

fluffy bunny — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:38:37 +0000

Looking forward to this! I’ve enjoyed everything from Introversion so far.

BTW: The comments thread for Mount & Blade seems to be locked.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:35:41 +0000

I love Introversion. I bought Uplink back and the day, and convinced many friends to do likewise. I will admit however, that I never actually finished it. I had a hard time getting into the proper plot; I mostly enjoyed the “doing missions to earn money to get better gear” part. Once I finally got the hang of hacking a bank, it seemed like money was unlimited, so I sort of lost interest. A shame, really, and the fault is mine for not using the shiny new gear to cruise through the plot part.
I was also really impressed, upon returning to it a year or so later, to see that they added significant features to the game, not just bug fixes (the whole LAN hacking bit wasn’t in the original I played)
And Darwinia I did play through all the way to the end. I quite enjoyed it, but I can’t say I ever thought “I wish this was multiplayer”. Just not really my thing. But the next single player game from Introversion, sign me up.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:14:01 +0000

“[W]e can assume it’s going to be even faster paced than the single player gamer (sic).”

Well, there go my chances of playing it. I can’t handle Defcon at speeds faster than 2. Now I get to be outmaneuvered in Darwinia as well? Sounds like it’s going to be Starcraft all over again….

And it’s a shame. I want to support Introversion, and I really want to revisit Darwinia!

By: Seniath

Seniath — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:24:58 +0000

I recently went back and finished Darwinia, and am now eagerly looking forward to this return to the world of Dr Sepulveda’s little green men.