![]() But while the ranks of entry-level warriors repeatedly trudge from spawn to battle, giving their lives each time to further inconvenience the enemy and gather territory, one bloke on each side is busy sizing up the battle from above, playing a real-time strategy game with human-controlled units.Īnd yes, that does involve mining for gold and resources using up to ten NPC peon units (with optional help from the grunts), positioning and building new structures, choosing which new weapons technologies to research (of either the science fictionalised or magical variety, depending on race), and paying for mobile sensors and any funding requests from the troops on the ground, who keep respawning as the same boring default class and need a few extra quid to begin life with thicker skin. At face value, S2 Games' oddity is a good-looking team-based WASD shooter with a third-person melee element a bit like Jedi Knight's, in which two teams of 30 or more Humans or Beasts spend about an hour fostering a stronghold on a massive map, whilst simultaneously trying to destroy their opponents'. It's also the sort of game you have to invest in to truly enjoy, particularly if you aspire to more than just scampering around the lush plains of Newerth waving an axe, and have an eye to command from on high. A strictly multiplayer affair, Savage is hard to get into and eventually divides opinion anyway, but in the company of organised savages, it's an incomparably absorbing experience amongst a recent slew of pretty but vacuous shooters. This is exactly the sort of idea people pitched: a strategic and fantastical war game hooked into an evolutionary colour clash - a post-apocalyptic struggle between technologically resurgent man and magical beast - where you can play everything from grunt to general, the nature your involvement and military discipline left entirely to your own discretion. ![]() Playing Savage brings to mind an old Super Play column called Daydreaming, in which readers submitted ideas for games and the best one each month received a prize.
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