Too Many Games - A Series - Ace Of Spades
Game - Ace Of Spades: Battle Builder
Release Date - 12th December 2012
Genre - First Person Multiplayer Shooter/Indie/Builder
Developer - Jagex Limited
Publisher - Jagex
Price - £9.99
Ace of Spades was originally a free to play browser game that was very simplistic in its model. There were a few maps, everyone got to use a rifle and you could build and destroy. My friend and I used to play that version for hours upon end and was very very addicted to say the least. So along comes Jagex, most notable for being the creators of Runescape (free to play browser MMORPG), and they bought out the rights to the title.
Lets just say, I'm not too keen on some of the changes they have made. They've harmed the balance that this game once had where every player had the same equipment to use as they please. With the class choice, this brings to the field what most games struggle to do right, which is balancing (League of Legends players should know this the best).
However, even if I'm not to keen on the addition of classes, it does add more destruction to the game. Destruction is what Ace of Spades is truely for and they don't move away from that at all. Throughout the four classes (Commander, Marksman, Engineer and Miner), they add various explosives such as dynamite and rockerlaunchers to profound weaponary like shootable drills that mine away at the blocks. Your wars will craft the world to an absolute mess and really thats the only reason to play this game, for the destruction.
How you go about said destruction is up to you, with several game mode variations from Team Deathmatch and Demolition to Zombies to even Classic CTF which brings back most of the original features, just wish a little glimmer of graphic boosts.
Now, Do I like this game? The awesome to that can be put into several words, mostly filled with cursing, but I'll just settle with no. This maybe a bit of a biast side towards the original Ace of Spades game but most of the changes ruin it in my view. The only good bit about it is the Classic CTF, and that still feels wrong. A games development should be to make the game better, not to just develop something that will get them money. Game development should be for the pasion of the game whilst this game just feels like all these developments are to just to make it fit in with other FPS games to siphon money out of the masses with no real flare. So yes, I indeed do not like this game.
I hoped you enjoyed this rather ranty-ish post and I'll see you again next week with another game that I'll probably rant about again.
