By Kieron Gillen on May 5th, 2010 at 9:00 pm.
News reaches us that Preloaded have done another of their education games. You’ll remember the Tim-Stone favoured 1066? Of course you do. And if you don’t, you’ll have clicked on that link. This time it’s Trafalgar Origins, an arcade game based around tall-ships and Nelson generally kicking ship-ass. Or Stern, as I believe it’s known. My quick play reveals a game which simplifies a little (you fire a broadside and your whole ship counts as if it’s reloading), but includes a lot of fine details (multiple shot types plus floating powder-keg mines, wind direction, etc) to complicate it just so. And RPG elements with buying crew, facebook integration and multiplayer. Also just enough edutainment to justify its remit as part of Channel 4′s remit. Trailer follows…
Trafalgar Origins – Channel 4 from Preloaded on Vimeo.
Oooh! Oooh!
BOATS
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Grand Theft Nauto
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The developer is actually Preloaded, not Playloaded.
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Another game, along with Empire, which steals naval combat direct from Sid’s Pirates and no one mentions it.
Still pretty fun though no where near as gorgeous or unique as 1066 and its swear fights.
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Ah Pirates! What a great game. Even the remake was fun.
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Sid stole it from real pirates, and nobody mentioned that either.
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“Immersive historic campaign!”
followed by
“LAST MAN STANDING”
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I heard that that’s what Nelson messaged his ships before the eponymous battle.
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I laughed at that one too. Glad I am not the only one.
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… and I cannot lie.
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Is it just me or does the 2nd tutorial get stuck at the little clock loading screen?
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I do like the “I rule!” comment that’s attached to the “Basic Navigation Tutorial Completed” mission on Facebook.
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I LIEKZ BIG BOATS AND I CANNOT LIE :D
sorry, just got to post this, no one else done it xD
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Ah, but I think Fumarole beat you to that one
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Excellent. That 1066 game was pretty ace, this one should be good too.
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Oh, floating cars.
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That’s what it feels like to drive…I mean sail them.
Messed up physics.
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C’mon Kieron, it’s a good pun but we had it ages ago:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/03/11/pirarsey-age-of-booty-demo/
YOU STOLED IT!
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Kieron Gillen says:
March 11, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Stealing that.
KG
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I know. He’d been biding his time like the evil genius he is.
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That’s exactly what I thought when I read it. Finally, the other shoe has dropped.
Or peg leg.
Whatever.
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Kiss me, Hardy
http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=164
Didn’t like it nearly as much as 1066 (it’s way harder, too) but I’m a landlubber.
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England Expects Every Man Will Download Adobe Flash Media Player 10.1.
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And once again, the comment system really needs some sort of thumbs-up system…that made me laugh.
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A game that is about one of my country’s most notorious hall of shame? The little bit of patriotism that is left in me says “no”!
(ok, I’ll try it at home)
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Does that come on the list after the defeat of the Armada in 1588. ; P
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Vive l’Empereur, Vive la France! This game is merde!
Oh who am I kidding, Nelson did kick copious amounts of ship-ass :(
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This looks great fun, and I can get it to load, and I can fire… but the keys that control movement don’t seem to be doing anything! The anchor moves up and down, but “A” and “D” aren’t doing anything! Frustrating… Anyone else having problems? I’m using Firefox…
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Scratch that – things started to happen as I was writing that last comment…
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This was a cpu hog for me and just too slow to be any fun. I don’t know if my pc’s age was the cause, but it seemed to take forever to turn, resulting to long boring stretches of nothing happening.
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“An addictive social layer.”
Goodness!
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Thats not really a really huge statement,
but its all I could come up with after reading this. You know so much about this subject.
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