Banzaii - The blog of online games and games of Jorge Mediavilla

This weekend, after the acquisition of my new laptop, I was playing Machinarium.

For those who may know what is a flash game in which you drive a robot-style "point and click" where you have to fight your way through different levels with different puzzles and puzzle games to find out do you look for our beloved character.

Honestly what I love about this game are its graphics in 2D and with a high level of detail. Another strength is both his story (I will not spoiler) like puzzle games really very original and fun.

Like Braid , two games that I think are a work of art and if you have not yet had the chance to play them, I recommend them 100%, once you can not leave the probéis, as they are very addictive and it will be difficult stop playing them (I tell you from experience, I began to play on Saturday and ended on Sunday in a total of about 7 hours). By the way, I think these two games on the DS triumph.

Machinarium is the first long game developed by Amanita Design, available exclusively for PC. Through it we can get and download, but have announced a physical release , with an art book, poster and a CD with the soundtrack of the game.

Download the demo for PC | Machinarium (34.7 MB)
Download the demo for Mac | Machinarium (36 MB)

I wanted to start my career in Banzaii talking about a game which we all expect a lot, like Heavy Rain. It seems to be a game that marked a before and after, since according to Sony says the game is open to many possibilities, a sort of interactive adventure movie mode, in which history will vary depending on what we do .

The game is developed by Quantic Dreams, creators and others of Fahrenheit , an adventure game released in 2005 for PlayStation 2 and was well received.

David Cage, project manager, says that the history of Heavy Rain revolves around four different characters are crossing around a mysterious man called "The Origami Killer" (the murderer of origami). Heavy Rain is a black film thriller with a very mature and adult, and whose main aim is to send a message to the player: How far would you go to save someone you love? As for the technical section is single-player, online mode is not available and their voices and texts are in Spanish, dubbed by major players in the scene director in Spain, plus the director has pointed out to be a single delivery, without sequels or sequelae.

Some media are calling it original, groundbreaking, flawless, spectacular ... So far everything is praise for this game that we enjoy from February 24 and as you know will be exclusive to PlayStation 3.

What about you than you think or expect of this Heavy Rain?

The work of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of books left by the Lord of the Rings at the height of bitumen will be video game. This was announced Cyanide, a French study Cycling Manager and responsible for Loki, among others.

The announcement gives me a bittersweet: On one hand I can not wait to play something that resembles the work of Martin, but on the other Cyanide not just convinced me even though they have done a bad job with the Nintendo DS version of Runaway 2 . What could have done Bioware and Bethesda with this script? Wonders!

This book is trippy. Seriously!

Anyway, the author of the novels will be involved in the project, which I guess is an adventure game, though Cyanide does not just detail.

* More details in the press release of Cyanide .

* Song of Ice and Fire on Wikipedia .

After succeeding beyond our borders, Runaway 2 reaches Spain by FX Interactive, which provides us with a great adventure game for the price of 19.95 €. I am delighted that this Spanish game arrives in Spain, but if Pendulum Studios no longer look outside our borders than inside, could not exist. I hope the game has a great welcome in our country and put on the first sales position.

The game also includes the first installment of the series, a book of special courts and other art that will delight the most "freaky".

- Source: Interactive Web FX .

For some time there is an ongoing debate on the issue of the decline of adventure games. This genus has been weakened, it has been diluted due mainly to other genres have adopted their identity. No need, for example, play an adventure game to enjoy a great script, or to deal with fun mini-games and puzzles, because they are already present in most games.

Titles like Broken Sword or Monkey Island are now part of memory, and large distributors and creators of video games and not venture into this genre, but this does not mean that the genre is dead. Still the best to tell a story and is not as difficult to program as a great game of last generation, so occasionally some not so great study develops a pearl of the genre, with no break in the charts, but are gems.

Want some examples? Runaway 2 (which will soon be in the street in Spain), Dreamfall, the late Larry, Syberia ... The latest news is that I have the Secret File Tuguska of Friendware, whose argument is really attractive:

On June 30, 1908 an explosion with the force equivalent to 2,000 Hiroshima bombs shattered the Tunguska region in central Siberia, affecting more than 6,000 square kilometers of trees.

The explosion could be heard at a distance of over 1,000 km Witnesses could see an object falling from the sky illuminated by a blue light. A column of light of 20 km in height preceded a black cloud mushroom.

According to the chronicles of the time the three following nights were so bright in Europe that could even read the newspaper on the street. Today it is still a mystery what happened at Tunguska. Now is YOU who is immersed in an unprecedented adventure to uncover a conspiracy related to the Tunguska event that will take you to different parts of the planet.

Get ready because your detective skills have never gotten so tested.

Welcome to Tunguska. We hope you survive.

Do not you wanna play? While adventure games are not my favorite genre, I am always ready to enjoy a great argument.

- What do you think? Leave a comment .

Now you can download a demo (of 431 Mb) Runaway 2, a curious adventure game of the Spanish Pendulum Studios with some success beyond our borders, but not in Spain. So much so that the official website of the study is in English and Castilian version ships with a "coming soon". See if this second part is more successful. We must support the Spanish software.

- Page ofcial of Runaway 2 (in English).
- Download the demo for Runaway 2 .
- Source: Vandal .