Overview: Start your agricultural career in Farming Simulator 14 on mobile and tablet! Take control of your farm and its fields to fulfil your harvesting dreams.
As well as a refined look and feel, Farming Simulator 14 gives you double the number of farm machines to control, all authentically modelled on equipment from real agricultural manufacturers, including Case IH, Deutz-Fahr, Lamborghini, Kuhn, Amazone and Krone.
Features:
- New highly detailed 3D graphics and a slick user interface take your gameplay experience to the next level
- Play with a friend in a free roaming open world in the brand new local multiplayer mode for WiFi and Bluetooth
- Plant wheat, canola or corn and sell it in a dynamic market
- Mow grass, tedder and windrow it to create hay bales to feed to your cows, then sell their milk to the highest bidder
- Make money by selling grass or chaff at the Biogas Plant
- Hire computer-controlled assistants to help you with your work
We hopped into the World of Warplanes beta to see how the aerial portion of Wargaming.net's vision is shaping up, and to find out once and for all if we were truly ace material.
Iterative design
World of Warplanes has seen a lot of changes since beta began. The first builds pushed live suffered from their fair share of bugs, broken gamepad support, and a tough learning curve that left new players vulnerable to more experienced pilots. Wargaming.net issued regular updates to the game over the beta period, patching problems as they arose and implementing a brand new set of tutorial missions designed to give rookies a softer introduction to the game's mechanics.
The result is a game that is much more user friendly and more fun to play. Instead of a player spending her first few minutes trying to figure out how she got shot down, she will instead learn how to safely control her plane and how to disengage and re-engage enemies to ensure a tactical advantage. The tutorial system doesn't necessarily prepare players for the punishing skill gap sometimes found in live World of Warplanes matches, but it certainly makes the first few fights a little less painful.
It seems as though Wargaming.net took notice of some of the most common complaints about World of Tanks and worked to prevent those same complaints from coming up in World of Warplanes. The interface is less convoluted. Tech trees are easier to understand and follow. Planes come in different tiers, like tanks in WoT, but their roles are more clearly defined. And controversial features like "pay-to-win" ammunition are nowhere to be found.
Diving and rolling
One important thing to note about World of Warplanes is that it is not a simulation. While Wargaming.net (in typical fashion) has gone to great lengths to ensure historical accuracy in its designs, flight in the game has an arcade feel that allows the player to focus more on helping the team than on learning the intricacies of real-life flight. Planes in World of Warplanes are tuned to fit into the game world and its mechanics, not to perform exactly like the actual combat machines on which they are based.
Flight in World of Warplanes is a joy, depending on which control scheme you use. Opinions will vary from player to player, but the default mouse control leaves a lot to be desired. It is difficult to pull off purposeful dogfighting maneuvers when using a mouse due to its lack of precision, and targeting other planes quickly becomes tiresome. Because the plane automatically follows the mouse cursor, players must constantly over-lead the target to the extent that it is often forced entirely off-screen.
Dogfighting with a gamepad is much better. With a fixed camera and the reticle centered, it's easier to accurately lead targets and perform daring acrobatics. Rolls, loops, dives, canyon runs, and mid-air high-fives become much more rewarding when they can be executed on purpose.
Perhaps the biggest difference between gameplay in World of Tanks and World of Warplanes is the way in which players can take different roles on the battlefield. Objectives in World of Tanks are simple enough: Capture a base or kill the other tanks. In World of Warplanes, ground targets add an interesting layer of strategy that forces players to think beyond kill counts or capture points. Bombing runs are also excellent ways for less-talented pilots to positively contribute to a team's victory; those who aren't skilled at dogfights can elect to fly bombers and leave the crazy acrobatics to the aces.
Flying in World of Warplanes lands squarely in the "easy to learn, tough to master" category. New players will quickly find themselves getting comfortable with the controls, but learning the advanced techniques required for dogfighting success (especially against faster and more maneuverable enemies) will take hours of practice. It will also take time for a player to find her niche; some pilots work best at high tiers in fast planes, some at mid-tiers with heavy planes, etc.
Wings and prayers
Because World of Warplanes is built from the World of Tanks model, a few negative artifacts from the first game's core design remain. It's not uncommon for a player to end up in a match with planes four or five tiers higher than her own (this may be resolved by a wider release), and low-tier planes in World of Warplanes seem to be much easier targets than low-tier tanks in World of Tanks. The Wargaming.net trademark grind also manages to sneak into WoWP -- there are dozens of cool planes to pilot, but each new aircraft and the unlocks surrounding it require quite a bit of in-game flight time.
That being said, combat in World of Warplanes rarely feels like a depressing chore. Perhaps it has something to do with soaring gracefully above the clouds or the downright beautiful visuals (Wargaming.net has really outdone itself with WoWP's environments), but WoWP never seems to fall into the drudgery so often required by its land-based predecessor. Players will enjoy most of the time they spend cruising through World of Warplanes' blazing skies and frozen plateaus, even when those cruises end in fiery crashes.
Overall, World of Warplanes marks a major step forward for Wargaming.net. The game liberally borrows the good stuff from World of Tanks without inheriting too many of WoT's faults while packing in a number of helpful improvements and enhancements along the way. World of Warplanes is a solid flight game that will offer plenty of high-flying fun to plane enthusiasts, combat lovers, and fans of crashing hilariously into rock formations. And since the game is free-to-play, any curious gamer can check it out with very little in the way of risk.
Summary: This installment in the Call of Duty series features a fresh dynamic where players are on the side of a crippled nation fighting not for freedom, or liberty, but simply to survive. 10 years after a devastating mass event, the nation's borders and the balance of global power have been permanently changed. As what's left of the nation's Special Operations forces, a mysterious group known only as "Ghosts" leads the fight back against a newly emerged, technologically-superior global power. In Call of Duty: Ghosts you don't just create a class, you create a soldier. Choose the head, body type, head-gear and equipment, and you can even create a female soldier for the first time. With over 20,000 possible combinations, you can create the soldier you've always wanted. And each soldier you create will also have his or her own load outs.
Review: The single player campaign is a wild ride despite its underwhelming storyline and short play through while the multiplayer aspects of the game take the cake and raise the franchise to even higher heights. It's jam packed with all sorts of new content from an engaging squads mode, a hectic Extinction mode and a new slate of multiplayer features to keep the core Call of Duty gamers playing for hours on end.
Say what you will about the formulaic approach to gaming utilized by Japanese game developer Kairosoft--it works. From the debut Game Dev Story, to more recent titles like Kairobotica and Pocket League Story 2, Kairosoft has managed to consistently deliver on engaging gameplay and clever settings. The newest game out of the developer might sound a little on the bland side, but let's be honest—it's going to gobble up your free time. Pocket Harvest has arrived on Android with all the farming adventure you can handle.
Pocket Harvest tasks you with building a profitable farm through a variety of game mechanics. There's the usual growing of crops and raising of livestock, but you can also bring tourism and sporting events to the area to increase the affluence of the community. Then there are the contests—is your produce the best? Only one way to find out.
You start the game with only a small plot of land, but by passing challenges and earning money you can get access to more land and in-game items. It's very much the same casual RPG experience from other Kairosoft games. However, that does mean a lot of tapping, and sometimes the game doesn't seem quite as responsive as it should be. Playing on a tablet provides a bit more wiggle room with regard to getting at all those buttons, though.
This game is done in the usual Kairosoft style of explicitly retro adorableness. Still, it doesn't look old fashioned. This is more of a pixel art treat that somehow transcends the graphical divide. As you build out your farm and the surrounding town, you will grow to love the simple pixelated world because it's yours.
Pocket Harvest is currently exclusive to Android and clocks in at $4.99. That's a common price for Kairosoft games, but there is no free or trial version this time.
Gather survivors of the zombie apocalypse and defend your fort against undead attacks. Reclaim one building at a time and put your survivors to work scavenging for food, building houses, rediscovering technology and of course killing zombies.
Beware of rival gangs, illness, thieves and even riots as you rebuild a city in this post apocalyptic turn based strategy game.
Features:
Unique turn-based strategy game play
Randomly generated cities
Customizable characters
5 levels of difficulty
7 endings to discover
What's in this version: (Updated : Nov 1, 2013)
Promotion for sequel, possible crash bug fix
Summary: Set in the far reaches of outer space during a new Dark Age, WARFRAME introduces the Tenno, a race on the brink of extinction after being enslaved by the Grineer for centuries. Players enter WARFRAME on the cusp of the Grineer's victory over the Tenno until they begin to arm themselves with WARFRAMES - an ancient exo-skeletal technology only they can operate. Hidden within the Orokin Derelicts of a lost civilization, new WARFRAMES lie dormant and undiscovered. These artifacts are the Tenno's only hope for survival.
Short Review: Digital Extremes has created something that's often genuinely fun to play, and given cost of entry, Warframe's well worth a try if you're in the mood for something different.
As a really great free to play game, Warframe is a nice surprise that sets the base for a promising future.. It has large updates that are put out each month. It keeps getting better. It also has very polished gameplay. This should be one of the best free to play games you have played. I would highly recommend experiencing it with your friends as it was meant to be played cooperatively and it's a far more fun than when played solo. The graphics are on par with massive games like Battlefield 3 and Assassins Creed 3. The gameplay is varied a lot, with different missions, varying objectives, randomised changes within missions, appearances from unexpected enemies and more.
