the Geekly news http://www.thegeeklynews.com Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:48:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 and the Summer Steam Sale keeps on chugging…. http://www.thegeeklynews.com/2011/07/and-the-steam-sale-keeps-chugging/ http://www.thegeeklynews.com/2011/07/and-the-steam-sale-keeps-chugging/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:08:34 +0000 Oliver http://www.thegeeklynews.com/?p=1036 Wow, there’s some good deals on there. 2 in particular caught my eye. If you’re in the mood for adding a dollop of chocolaty strategy to your dull vanilla fantasy, you may want to check these out.

Paradox Fantasy Pack – $7.99

Paradox Fantasy Pack on Steam

Comes with all the Elven Legacy games and addons (great turn-based strategy) as well as all the Majesty games and addons (great real-time strategy games).  That’s really a no-brainer for 8 bucks.

King’s Bounty Pack – $6.99

King's Bounty on Steam

If you missed this great mashup of real-time adventuring and turn-based strategy meets lightweight RPG, then it’s time for you to plop down $7 in cold hard cash. You’ll get hours out of this and if somehow you don’t like it, ooooOO pretty graphics!

Click on the images to spend your hard-earned money.

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Anyway, that’s not what this post is about! I’ve recently purchased Sacred 2 for my 360 (have it on PC as well) and thanks to GamersGate’s cheapo weekend (Hooray! – for cheap bastards like me) I got King’s Bounty for $9.99! I’ve been playing both off and on and enjoying them a lot.

I’m finding that KB is quite addictive and very, very polished. I have only found issue so far with a couple things – since the map has so much on it, I find my hero jitters a bit as I move him around… bumping into various things. But that’s not really a big deal. I wish you could auto-resolve battles, especially when you run into the 4th –insert low-level monster here– in a row. That can get kind of dull, but once again, not a game-breaker in the least.

Sacred 2 on the other hand, not so polished. You’d think it would be, considering the number and size of the updates applied to the PC version, but it’s sadly not the case. Still, there’s no comparable action-RPGs on the console (Marvel Ultimate Alliance imo is very diffeerent) so I guess it kinda wins by default. I find the text a bit hard to read on my large-screen 480p TV, but it’s still pretty darn fun.

Check back soon for some reviews on a Photo Organizer app and an MP3 jukebox app… both to appear as ‘Overlooked’ reviews.

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