![]() I haven’t been able to peruse their whole Mac library, but they do have new games like Europa Universalis and FlatOut 2, along with some smaller, indie titles like World of Goo and the like. I got above 500KB/s the whole time, usually more like 700. Looks like this:Īs you can see, they’ve addressed the speed problems they had before as well. When you buy a game it gives you a little meta-downloader that connects and begins getting the disk image. If you remember, GamersGate is a clientless service, so there’s nothing that lives on your PC or Mac. I’m pumped that they’ve got some awesome indie titles in there, like And Yet It Moves and Larva Mortus, both of which I have checked out before but probably wouldn’t buy unless it was this easy. They’ve also recently revamped their site to be a little slicker, so those of you who found it offensive to the eye before might want to give it another shot. ![]() Otherwise, it’s just a pretty good indie adventure: the difficulty and pacing are absolutely spot-on, even if the visuals lack the ostentatious fireworks we’re used to these days.You remember GamersGate, right? The direct-download games site we reviewed a little while back has a nice little surprise: they’re now going to be offering Mac games for sale right next to all those new and classic PC titles. What was definitive about it was its co-op play, and that’s clearly the special ingredient Larva Mortus lacks. Of course, we are old fogies, with many troubles and long memory: for us Alien Breed was a shooter that defined gaming. These days it’s hard to say how many readers will remember age-old shooter Alien Breed, to which Larva Mortus is akin. While there’s a core set of story missions about the search for an evil artifact, you find yourself playing in an RPG manner, performing side missions to get suitably leveled-up for the challenges ahead. You level your character as you progress, spending points to boost various attributes according to how you want to play, but what’s most interesting is the open campaign structure. This demon-hunting room-to-room dungeon-crawler is essentially an arcade game - its power-ups dropping from enemies and crates - but the extra details make all the difference. ![]()
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