Blockstorm’s is the creative potential at the fingertips of its players.
Blockstorm mods#
The gameplay itself was pretty much as expected and standard PVP fare, and Minecraft itself has many mods that allow for similar types of gaming, There’s a thousand and one such games out there and to stand out a game needs a USP. Admittedly, this was the day after the game was available on Steam and, a couple of weeks later, though still very sparsely populated, we did find a server with other players on.
Sadly, our initial few plays were limited to exploring the various online maps available solo as we never found a single server with anyone else on it. On a modest Acer all-in-one dual core machine with onbboard ATI chipset and 4GB of RAM, the best we could hope for was 800×600, the lowest resolution offered, and it ran acceptably well at that level. 7-year-olds generally don’t have high-spec gaming rigs and, more often that not, have a budget-level machine or an older one they have inherited as the family machine is replaced. Frame rate was dreadfully slow, which we expected. The only limit would be your imagination and surely some enterprising soul will at some point create replicas of maps from that well known franchise.Īnd so, finally on to gameplay. The map editor, used for creating your own levels, is quite extensive and allows you to create small, medium and large levels with vary levels of landscape complexity to which you can then add various objects.
Blockstorm full#
If the developers instigate the body part movement mirroring the full figure rotation, this would be a fantastic tool and great fun.
Blockstorm how to#
A bit more exploration and she’d finally worked out how to move around, realising that it’s you who moves around the body part and not the body part that rotates and then spent a happy hour or so playing around with the editor. If a seven-year-old says that’s how it should work, that’s how it should probably work. The small image of the entire body can be rotated and skewed with the mouse so why not just have the large selected body part mirror that action. She quickly became frustrated trying to rotate the body parts, and unable to find an obvious intuitive way to do so. My daughter issued a cry of glee and was keen to set to work.Īlas, the editor itself could do with some refinement.
Blockstorm skin#
Because the characters are built of a great many more smaller blocks you can design your look in a lot more detail, even adding and taking away blocks, rather than simply being able to wrap a skin round the existing shape. While you can design a skin for Minecraft in an offline editor and upload, they are relatively simplistic The character editing in Blockstorm is the character editing that Minecraft would have if they ever did a second generation of the title. I have a 7-year-old girl who loves both Minecraft and that well known first-person-shooting franchise that she’s 11 years too young to buy, so the idea of a game that allowed both creativity and mindless bloodlust and wanton destruction sounded like exactly what the daughter ordered.Ī quick download and the game was installed and the first thing we looked at was the character editor. The premise sounded very intriguing and the demo video looked good. Blockstorm, the latest title from Gameshark, is a title for which I was delighted to receive the chance to test out the alpha version.
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