Ok here is something awesome. A former Bioware developer, Henry Smith of Sleeping Beast Games, has struck out on his own into the world of indie development, and his first iOS project has landed in the App Store. And it’s an incredibly unique idea. It’s called Spaceteam (Free), and it tasks you with grouping together with 2-4 players in real life and working together to save a spaceship that is quickly going into meltdown.
This is where the genius part comes in: the app itself displays various control panels of the spaceship that must be adjusted or maintained to keep the craft from falling to pieces. The twist is that the game only gives you instructions for other team members, which you must relay to them as quickly as possible as the actions to save the ship are all on short timers. The result is a group of people shouting instructions at one another in a heated fashion, a la a scene straight out of a dramatic episode of Star Trek or the like.
It’s probably best demonstrated in this following video.
I’ve got to say I love this idea to pieces, but whenever games pop up that require me to interact with other humans in real life I often strike out. I just don’t have that many real life friends who are big iOS gamers. However, the initial download of Spaceteam is free, so if you do have some people you know with iOS devices you can at the very least convince them to download and try it out with you. Who knows, you might have the next holiday party hit on your hands.
[Via Penny Arcade]
If it's done, what's keeping them from releasing the game? App Store rules? Anyways can't wait for 12/6
The real question is, how is the chopper gonna handle? And by that, I mean helicopter
I really cannot wait to get my hands on this. It's by far my favourite GTA game bar none.
Anyone notice the map in the screenshots is always showing the same place? Probably just a bug, but it reminds me that I know the streets of Vice City better than where I live!
Makes me think these are just comps. Either way, looks great and I can't wait to play it. I'm with you, Vice City is the best!
Huh. The radar seems to be in the wrong place in the screenshots. You can tell in the one with the blue Infernus, it's clearly driving down Ocean Beach yet the radar looks like it's near the docks. Just an observation :) looks amazing nonetheless.
I haven't played a GTA game in a while, the last I played was GTA4 on ps3. However, I have played San Andreas previously, although I always found that I lacked the stick skills to truly be great at the game.
So, my questions are:
Will the controls be more difficult to pick up on a touchscreen (iPad)?
Will there be a difficulty setting making it more forgiving (i.e. easier enemies, more time on time trials, etc)?
It's good to see decent foliage textures. GTAIII's textures for tree leaves was terrible with too much compression.
GTA3 went down to 69p after a week or two after release, so if you can wait like me a few weeks down the line it'll be cheap!