By Joy Naomi

If you came to this page looking for Joy’s gamer interview, don’t worry, you’re not lost! For this issue, we’re giving the game itself an interview – which is to say that Joy’s going to play it for us and tell us what she thought! Be warned that this article may contain strong language and violence toward small appliances.

I Played What?!

I have decided to try something new and I need your help!

In the Xbox market there is a section for free games. I have decided to try these free games and give you all a review of them. For this first installment, I chose th game, but I want you to decide what I play next! At the end of this review, I will have a list of three games. I want you to choose which I’ll review for the next article. You can PM me on the boards or via Skype, and the game with the most votes will be the game I play and review next. Now – onward to the review!

For this review, I decided to play Roblox. It was – interesting, to say the least. Roblox is a user-generated massively multiplayer online social gaming platform developed and published by the Roblox Corperation. It was released in 2006. (Information taken from Wikipedia). Basically, it’s one big download with a bunch of games in it that the players themselves have made. There are software and other tools you can download and use to actually make the games both you and others play!

Honestly, I didn’t care for this game, but I’ll get more into that later. Since there were so many games within it to play, I only played three of them – it would take way to long to get through them all. I will admit that I suck and can’t remember the names of the games (sorry!), but I will describe them to you the best I can.

The first game I played was simple enough – or was it? You’re put on a platform with a bunch of huge ice blocks in the middle. The goal is to scoot the ice blocks over the edge of the platform. Do that, and you earn points. Simple, right? Yeah, I thought so too – but what they didn’t tell you is that when you touch an ice block, it’s yours, but when others touch it, it’s theirs. So, basicially, you could be strolling along, minding your own business and pushing an ice block, almost have it to the edge to get your point, and – BAM! Out of nowhere, some stealthy motherfucker pops up and touches your ice block right before it goes over the edge, and they get your point! That game caused me a rage like no other. After a few rounds of an asshat stealing my points, I was out for blood! Oh, by the way, did I mention that you could possibly go over the edge yourself – and die?! Yeah, you can – so not only do you have to watch out for a ninja bitch stealing your ice block, you also have to watch out to make sure your pretty little ass doesn’t get shoved off the edge, too. In and of itself, it wasn’t a bad game – the game play was simple enough, but I feel like it wasn’t explained all that well, because I had no clue other people could steal my ice block points.

The second game I tried was a little less rage inducing, but it wasn’t the best. Basically, you’re put in a store and divided into teams, then you run around the store and pick up objects to throw or to hit members of the opposite team with. I admit, this was kind of fun – and a good stress reliever after the first game! There really wasn’t much to this game – you just picked up random crap. At one point, I think I was chasing someone down with a boombox, and then I got chased down with a stop sign. All in all, I think the game was pretty pointless, but chasing someone and beating them down with a boombox is still a good time.

The final game I played was some sort of running game. It looked pretty straight forward – you just run a course and get timed. Well, it wasn’t that straight forward at all! Again, they weren’t very thorough when it came to explaining things. This time, what they fail to tell you is that while running, you have to jump over to the next part of the course. It took me about three times to figure out how to jump. Once I figured that out, it wasn’t so bad. It was actually kind of fun, but I never could get my speed up because I was too focused on not falling off the side of a mountain to my certain death. If I were to ever try Roblox again, I would be more likely to play this game than the others.

Game Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Pros:

• It’s a nice concept to have the players make the games
• You can meet new people.
• It has a large selection of games

Cons (based on the games I played):

• Gameplay isn’t explained well.
• On some of the games, the controls are hard to figure out.

Now, for next time I need your help figuring out a game to play! Below are three choices, so as I said, pick from those and either PM me on the boards or catch me on Skype. The game with the most votes will be the game I play next and review. Keep in mind, I don’t know what these games are about and I have never played them. I just looked in the marketplace and chose three random games!

1. Clicker Heroes
2. Onigiri
3. Happy Dungeons