DogFighter (PC)

Another game I purchased from Steam yesterday, DogFighter is a arcade like airplane combat shooter. It's by no means a simulator, and feels almost odd controlling it via keyboard ( many keys flip and roll the plane as it becomes confusing at parts if you are new to the game ). The multiplayer was fun, for the 5 minutes that I played it. You can choose between a couple planes that specialize in agility, armor, damage, or speed. From what I got from that session, there are a lot of maps, and not too many game modes.

On sale on steam for 8 bucks, it's not to bad of a purchase, but I probably would have spent it on a different game of similar cost if there was a demo feature.

Lead and Gold - Gangs of the Wild West (PC)

For those of you who have played Rockstar's hit game, Read Dead Redemption this year, this game will be strikingly familiar. Lead and Gold is a arcade like western 3rd person shooter. There are 4 classes, 3 of which I have played so far, and 2 of which I'd say are fairly easy to control. There is a sniper class that can use traps and utilizes the same principal as the sniper in TF2 ( delayed fire mechanism ), a Rifleman ( mid ranged infantry ), a Pistol-guy who can fire off rounds as fast as you can click with his special alternate fire, and a shotgun-dynamite throwing commando class. The combat motions are almost the same in RDR, being that you can dive, and run and gun with a familiar crosshair.




Unfortunately, the fucking multiplayer base is terrible. I played last night on a friday night and there was a grand total of 38 people on. Lack of dedicated servers and player count makes it a iffy buy. But, of course, the more people that buy it and play it will increase the experience. The game sells for about $15.00 on steam, and was released at some point i have no idea when this year.


All in all, a great arcade shootan game for under 20 dollars. Hopefully steam will continue the advertising for this game and it will become more popular seeing as how the player base currently is very low. I'd give it about a B+.