By Jim Rossignol on September 28th, 2012 at 3:00 pm.
I Am Weapon is a tower defence game set in the world of bad dreams. Developers Sigma Team, previously of the Alien Shooter and Zombie Shooter games, explain: “The world of nightmares is mysterious and amazing, it scares and fascinates at the same time. The laws of real world are not valid in here.” Fortunately the rules of tower defence remain much the same, although in this you seem to play a dude with a minigun. You can sample that particular dreamworld via a demo which can be downloaded here. The game features – and I have to quote this verbatim – “all types of infuriated clowns you could ever imagine! Their laugh makes you go crazy!”
I haven’t played it, but I watched the trailer, which is below. That’s a lot of blood on that chessboard.
Yep.
28/09/2012 at 15:02 lordcooper says:
WARCLOWN!
28/09/2012 at 15:21 JB says:
CLOWNFACE!
28/09/2012 at 15:04 zebramatt says:
Urg, I feel sick.
28/09/2012 at 17:29 Kdansky says:
Could be worse and add camera shakes. It seems to have a complete lack of kinesthetics. Floooaaaaty shooter.
28/09/2012 at 15:09 Danorz says:
“I Am Weapon is a tower defence game*rest of article collapses into static*
28/09/2012 at 15:12 Jim Rossignol says:
Which is a shame because you miss one of the best features in a game ever.
28/09/2012 at 16:33 mckertis says:
That it only controls properly with a 360 gamepad ?
28/09/2012 at 20:55 Baines says:
But how much does “one of the best features in a game ever” really matter, if you’ve come to loathe even the mere mention of its genre?
29/09/2012 at 00:27 Caiman says:
I’m rather surprised you didn’t actually mention that. I had already set my sarcasm lasers to “searing” in anticipation of the comment thread, but then I watched the video. Um. It’s a high-density twin-stick shooter very much like their previous games. Except it also has tower defence-y bits because you can also place defensive turrets which help you to survive as you’re blasting stuff. But it sure doesn’t look much like a tower defence game to me.
29/09/2012 at 20:41 SuperNashwanPower says:
I just played the demo of Defense Grid: The Awakening. Shortly after, I bought the game and DLC. I am also downloading the I Am Weapon demo, because I appear to have discovered that I Like Tower Defense Games. New info to me :) They are rather fun.
28/09/2012 at 15:16 Jallford says:
I don’t know, I can imagine quite a few types of infuriated clowns.
28/09/2012 at 15:26 Jenks says:
Looks like it would be a blast in multiplayer. Maybe it will follow the Orcs Must Die path and add it to the sequel?
28/09/2012 at 15:32 Mr. Mister says:
“The laws of the normal world do not apply there.”
So you can take photos of greek military bases?
28/09/2012 at 15:36 Haplo says:
No Jim! You are not a gun!
28/09/2012 at 15:39 Dr I am a Doctor says:
Tower defence and monkey cheese humor, fantastic
28/09/2012 at 15:46 princec says:
Download fail. Please, developers, use real hosting. Unbelievable you go to the effort of making such an incredible looking game and then you’re too tight to host the damned files properly.
(In the unlikely event the developers, or indeed anyone, gives a fuck, and I am reminded to try downloading a demo again in the future, I will; but right now it’s a lost sale)
Cas :)
28/09/2012 at 16:08 lizzardborn says:
Downloaded from gamers hell, and the demo is available via bittorrent, which cannot possibly fail.
29/09/2012 at 08:55 princec says:
Gamershell simply didn’t work here – endless cycle of bullshit that just repeated itself. And I don’t touch torrents.
Cas :)
28/09/2012 at 16:10 Hmm-Hmm. says:
Tiny Serious Sam and his friendly towers in the mad clown dimension.
Or something.
28/09/2012 at 16:17 lizzardborn says:
This feels so crimsonlandish … I like it.
30/09/2012 at 12:21 Metr13 says:
Could be more crimsonlandish. BTW, rise your hands, who supports it in greenlight.
28/09/2012 at 17:48 magnus says:
I bet the moderator on the Sigma Team forums is still a barrel of laughs!
28/09/2012 at 19:29 running fungus says:
I don’t know. The more surreal the style, the more disappointing a completely routine mechanic seems. It’s the world of dreams! Here’s a big gun. Go shoot everything.
The “tower defence” aspect seems to be little more than turret emplacement. Oh well.
29/09/2012 at 15:17 zhanbao12 says:
http://au81.com/3iAnA3