{"id":17823,"date":"2012-10-29T09:41:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=17823"},"modified":"2013-08-30T11:43:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T18:43:01","slug":"october-29-wallet-threat-level-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/10\/29\/october-29-wallet-threat-level-red\/","title":{"rendered":"October 29: wallet threat level red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"17823\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shotgun_stories.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shotgun_stories.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"shotgun_stories\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17833\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Painkiller: Hell &#038; Damnation is an uncanny Unreal 3 remix of the original Painkiller, which is my favorite Doom game of all time.  It&#8217;s every bit as good as it was in 2004.  Actually, better.  I forgot how awesome it is to play a shooter that doesn&#8217;t need a reload key.  And this time it&#8217;s got co-op support.  If there&#8217;s one thing better than replaying Painkiller, it&#8217;s replaying Painkiller cooperatively.<\/p>\n<p>Cargo Commander is an indie space dungeon exploration game.  Think of it as a sci-fi Rogue-like with unique space-based qualities and the catchiest space honky-tonk aesthetic this side of Starcraft 1.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/10\/16\/what-a-difference-a-font-makes-in-cargo-commander\/\">Here&#8217;s how it plays<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The last few Assassin&#8217;s Creeds are kind of a blur for me.  Kind of like they were a blur for the folks who made them.  Zing!  So I had very little enthusiasm going into Assassin&#8217;s Creed III.  After playing for a while, I still had very little enthusiasm.  Assassin&#8217;s Creed III starts slow, despite an interesting idea for how to do a prologue.  It&#8217;s ponderous and familiar.  It features way too much Desmond (at this point, any Desmond is way too much Desmond).  For those of us burned out after a few years of cavorting around cities that weren&#8217;t as good as Venice, Assassin&#8217;s Creed III feels like just another Assassin&#8217;s Creed, but with dishwater dull Colonial architecture.  Here we go again.  But then you get past the first five or six hours and, holy cats, the Assassin&#8217;s Creed series is good again!  At this point, I couldn&#8217;t be happier with how this is turning out.  Consider your wallet imperiled.<\/p>\n<p>After an extensive beta period, Natural Selection 2 finally goes live this week.  This team-based aliens vs marines multiplayer shooter\/strategy hybrid has a following from the first game for a reason.  And lest you worry what you&#8217;re getting into, this is no free-to-play grindfest.  It&#8217;s a straight-up, two-asymmetrical-but-equal-teams-against-each-other, reset-to-zero-when-you&#8217;re-done complete package.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of team-based multiplayer shooters with a twist, Guns of Icarus launches this week.  This release doesn&#8217;t yet include an intended adventure mode where your airships fly around trade routes to make money and buy upgrades.  Instead, it&#8217;s an airship vs airship skirmish game in which players crew the airships.  Considering the dearth of airship deathmatches since Flying Heroes, I&#8217;ll take what I can get.<\/p>\n<p>Electronic Arts releases Need for Speed: Most Wanted.  No telling how long the servers will be up, so hurry up and race before it&#8217;s sunsetted!<\/p>\n<p>Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth is some sort of Kinect fighting game that poses the question &#8220;who would win in a fight between Spiderman and Wolverine?&#8221;.  The correct answer is &#8220;Spiderman and Woverine aren&#8217;t Avengers&#8221;.  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