Unless you’ve been living in a… well… mineshaft… you’ll know all about Minecraft, the block building indie sensation.
Unless this mineshaft really is very deep you’ll also be aware of Counter-Strike, the classic and ever popular FPS.
Now, take these two and mix them up with a good dose of social gaming and you’ve got Brick-Force, a new block building, head shot sniping, team death-matching multi-player shooter from Exe Games Inc. We bring you the lowdown on its current beta.
GB: The three PC games have a similar premise: Take Minecraft's block-building gameplay and add plenty of guns and explosions. We dove into each one to see just how different they are from one another.
Machinima: "The Brick-Force cheery motto reads 'Build, Share, Play', and out of the corner of your eye, you might see those adorable Playmobil-looking player-avatars and get the oblique sense you’ve stumbled into a colorful, online Legoland nation of ‘emergent play’ harmony…right up until you get your virtual brains blown out by a ruthless, remorseless sniper you never even saw. And just FYI, that sniper may very well be me."
GotGame: Brick-Force, from Infernum and EXE Games, has been out for some time now, though you may not have come across it yet. It’s what would happen if you took the block based building aspects of Minecraft, took out the fact that you have to pay, and combined it with first person shooter mechanics. Did we mention it’s free?
This looks like it could be something special. I like the idea of making my own world and then shooting fools in it.
And then there's the cross-platform play, with PC players against phone users...