Pick Your Apocalypse - Radiated Wasteland or Rise of Robots
Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 7:27PM
I'm really not much of a gamer, but I'll dabble in the occasional game as long as it's post-apocalyptic and I can play online. I've been playing Die2Nite daily for over a year now, and more recently I've been spending time in a city devastated by the zombie apocalypse in Zombie Pandemic.
Published by Pixel Pandemic, Zombie Pandemic is "a free browser based MMORPG featuring enriched RPG elements, including missions, advanced combat, perks and an inventory with hundreds of weapons to battle the more than 175 different NPC opponents."
I'm still on the first of three available maps, and have only gotten up to level 20, but it's been fun so far, and has definitely kept me interested enough to want to keep going.
But what I'm really waiting for is Pixel Pandemic to hurry up and release either one of their two upcoming games that look to have even more of a post-apocalyptic theme, Radiated Wasteland and Rise of Robots.
I don't have much information on Radiated Wasteland yet, but I did get a press kit for Rise of Robots. Here's the description:
Machines have risen against mankind and those of us that remain must fight to survive in a world set in flames. As a player you are one of the few survivors who escaped the first attacks, trapped in the ruins of what used to be a metropolitan city. You are now part of the resistance fighting for whatever is left of civilization in this near future post-apocalyptic setting inspired by the Terminator movies.
Players can co-op by joining clans and constructing safe houses, hidden away from the machines who try to hunt you down. You must scavenge resources from what is left of the looted stores and left behind items in the city and you must stay well fed to survive. Combining items you scavenge you can craft improvised weapons and engage in tactical combat against the mighty robots and drones with more than 400 weapons available.
The game features classic MMORPG elements offering a fully customizable avatar which you can equip with the clothing and armor you find. The game is turn based and set on a huge tile based map of more than 3000 tiles to explore. Each tile is customized and during the explorative gameplay players are able to locate NPCs that offer missions, trading or even training facilities.
So it sounds like the gameplay will basically be a clone of Zombie Pandemic with new artwork and storylines. But that would be fine with me, and I can't wait to play them.
From what I understand, both games will hit closed beta sometime in 2012, though I haven't heard exactly when. You can go to the sites to sign up to be notified, or just stick around here, because the folks at Pixel Pandemic have already said that they'll throw some beta keys my way when they're ready to launch.







































