Another game I've been playing recently is Solar 2. This was a very unique game. It is an open sandbox style game in which you start as an asteroid. You grow in mass, eventually becoming a planet and then a star. Along the way, stars attract planets to their orbits and planets attract asteroids. There are various missions and challenges but I mainly enjoyed cruising around the cosmos, growing in size and managing my solar system. Eventually, I progressed beyond large star to neutron star and then a black hole. Finally, I achieved enough mass for the "big crunch." This is where the black hole was so massive it swallowed all matter in the universe.


The Big Crunch

I'm not done playing it but I thought I should write a quick post about DiRT 3. It's been my main computer game since finishing iBomber Defense. I'm not a big racing game aficionado but I will say this has been one of the more enjoyable ones I've played. I liked DiRT 2 but didn't enjoy it as much as this sequel. I went back and played DiRT 2 some more and now I remember why. Although the racing action didn't bother me, the camera pans of the pre-race areas were too much and gave me motion sickness. DiRT 3 is much more forgiving in that area. At lower difficulty levels, both games provide enjoyable arcade-style racing action. I still wish I had a wheel and pedals for control but my Logitech RumblePad 2 suffices. So far, I've finished racing on several circuits and raised my driver rep several levels. There is plenty more content to tackle, however. I think I'll leave this game installed for a while.

I just finished playing iBomber Defense, a tower defense game from Cobra Mobile. As expected, the company focuses on mobile games. Even as a mobile game port, I still had fun with it. I didn't enjoy it as much as Anomaly: Warzone Earth, however, which turned the tables with a tower offense style of play. iBomber Defense contains two campaigns, Allies and Axis. The Allies campaign comprised 14 missions while the Axis campaign had 11. The gameplay was largely the same between campaigns with a slight variation in weapons and equipment. In the Allies Campaign, you have machine guns, cannons, AA, sabotage, and comms. In the Axis campaign, you have, machine guns, cannons, AA, infernos, and x-weapons. Buy and repair upgrades were part of both campaigns. I enjoyed both campaigns but the later missions dragged on a bit too long. In the early missions, you face 20 waves; by the end, you face 50. Overall, it was a fun game and didn't take too long to finish.


Final Axis Mission - Land, Sea, and Air Assault

I've spent some time playing Snuggle Truck recently. It is a side-scrolling physics-based driving game. You have a truck full of stuffed animals. Your job is to drive them to the zoo. The challenge is to arrive in the shortest time possible while losing the least amount of animals along the way. There are a variety of levels to complete, ranging from easy to quite difficult. Overall, it is well-crafted and suitable for short play sessions. I enjoyed it early on but started to lose interest during the harder levels. I didn't feel compelled to finish all of the levels so I'm moving on. Next up on my playlist is iBomber Defense and DiRT 3.