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Giants
The Specs
This is one of those games that's been a perennial favorite
at E3 for three or four years. Giants is an action/real time
strategy combo with base building and resource management.
Your resources are sheep-like beasts called Vimps and tiny
men called Smarties. The twist is that each of the game's
three races -- the magical mermaid-like Sea Reapers, the jet-pack-wearing
armed Meccaryns who fight in packs, and the fearsome Kabuto
-- all use the resources differently. It's a sort of Starcraft
approach where each side has unique gameplay mechanics. It's
no surprise that Giants developer Planet Moon consists of
former Shiny employees -- the game's artwork seems to be characterized
by the same quirky sensibility that helped make Shiny's Sacrifice
as good as it is.
The Speculation
Mark's Comments: Development on this game was
started by an obscure sergeant in Hannibal's army. Just a
few weeks before it was scheduled to go gold, an elephant
sat on the sergeant and put the game severely behind schedule
and forced the sergeant to take a raincheck on the whole march
through the Alps thing. Now centuries later, it may finally
be ready for release. Or it may not. Who knows? Sometimes
the hype for a game peaks too early, which was about 18 months
ago for this game.
Tom's Comments: A big guy named Kabuto makes
a lot of noise and smashes stuff. He also has babies and eats
living things. And you get to play him. I'm sold, stale hype
and all! Peter Molyneux's Black & What?
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Publisher: Interplay
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Developer: Planet Moon
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Genre: Action/real time strategy
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Release Date: Q4 2000
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