FOGUG Studios today announced that their first game has gone gold. Entitled Console Wars, the game puts you in the role of a prepubescent adolescent teenager in the world of Forum. With no social life, no real-life friends and plenty of time to spare, you argue the fine nuances of video game consoles (that you are yet to own). The game features both multi-player and single-player modes with open-world features that the developers at FOGUG claim would put GTA4 to shame.
“You start off in Console Wars by customising your character. What we’ve managed to do is have several shades of pale, accurately rendered keeping in mind that the character is, well, a nerd with no life and has probably never ever been in the sunlight. Some other neat things are that you can choose your faction. Apart from the obvious PSFag, Xbot and Wiitard options, we’ve added the PCpissant, Retrowhore, Segatasanshiro and Arcadeass factions as well so you can wage your war in glaringly realistic detail”, said Abhijit Banerjee, lead designer of Console Wars.
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We took the game for a spin and were highly pleased. Not only did our choices affect gameplay it also affected our real-life credibility as well. Choosing to play as a Wiitard resulted in us being beaten up by a bunch of angry soccer moms, choosing to play as a PSFag made our PS3 YLOD on us and in a pleasant surprise, playing as an Xbot didn’t RRoD our X360, but yeilded an E74 error instead.
Also, our in-game persona was affected by various external changes as well. When connected to the internet, the game hooks up to news feeds from a variety of credible sources like vgachartz.com. If your character is a PSFag and there’s a drop in sales, your avatar would get all cranky and be as emotionally stable as Peter Moore during E3 2006 (sir, we still think those tattoos were a bad idea).
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There were a variety of super-weapons to use as well. There are in-game arms dealers, allowing you to buy from a stunning array of weaponry that would help you win the war. These include animated gifs, various pictures with the word “Fail” scrawled all over them and others with the word “Win” or “Facepalm”. Using these wisely would allow total domination of the game. We let loose something called the “darthvaderfail.jpeg” on an unsuspecting group of Wiitards and it led to their tears bathing the streets of Forum clean.
We couldn’t use some of the cooler features such as rickrolling, trolling and use of fuzzy logic as Abhijit leapt across the screen when we tried to access these features, shouting something about him making us “his bitch like John Romero was supposed to” and ranted about “Daikatana 2” and some “prophecy”. He was promptly straightjacketed and hauled off to the asylum (hopefully not Arkham) for a mental check up. Nevertheless, from our first impressions, this seems to be a keeper. No not the lead designer, the game.
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Oh and if you’re wondering what format Console Wars is for, it’s on the PC and available for a free digital download here.
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