Dave’s Place / Metamusing

…I thought I might point out a few games worth attention over the next several days. First on the list: Gate 88 by Queasy games. This is elegance in gameplay mechanics personified. It harkens back to the old school arcade games of the 80’s in terms of controls and graphics, but the gameplay is a great riff on games like Herzog Zwei. We’ll call it an action RTS, though it’s really mostly an action game with a few elements (resources, bases and research) of RTS. Best of all, it’s free and has a great multiplayer action. This is really well worth checking out if you’re on the PC, and you might even find it runs acceptably in emulation on a mac since it has modest system requirements.