Call Montezuma: Another ‘Aztez’ Dev Play Released

Last week, we took a look at Mantolith’s Aztez, a sanguinary beat-em-up/turn-based strategy hybrid that abandons subtlety in favour of gratuitous violence and an emphasis on bloodshed.

If that grabbed your attention in any way, shape or form, you’ll probably be pleased to discover that an additional developer video has been released, this time detailing both the ground-pound and missile dropkick manoeuvres. Take a look below for more smashmouth, no-nonsense mayhem, but be warned that there’s no short supply of explicit language involved.

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Combining brutal sidescrolling beat-em-up action with a turn-based strategy element and boasting eye-catching visuals, Aztez is a game worth checking out.

While the proposed release date of 2013 is a way off yet, Aztez certainly deserves some attention as the developers slowly but surely put it together to a more and more impressive state. So what is it then?

Aztez is two things actually – on one hand it’s a sidescrolling beat-em-up and a bloody one at that, which is accentuated by the black and white visuals and the red blood being the only other color. On the other hand, Aztez will have you establishing and managing an empire; trading in the politics and economy of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica just as the Aztecs are being established. It’s a combination that reminds me like a much more advanced version of Asterix: The Gallic War if you ever played it.

So far, there’s not a huge amount more that can really be said about the game – it simply must be seen, or even better, played! Yes, there are playable builds of Aztez which, while very old now, are stable enough to have a little poke around in. You won’t get much of a sense of where the game is right now from those builds now though as they are a year old, but from what you can see in the latest gameplay video, the combat is looking fairly deep and pretty fun.

Aztez is expected to be release on Windows and Mac in early 2013 for a price of $10, though none of this is set in stone. More information on the game is available on the official website.

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Combining brutal sidescrolling beat-em-up action with a turn-based strategy element and boasting eye-catching visuals, Aztez is a game worth checking out.

While the proposed release date of 2013 is a way off yet, Aztez certainly deserves some attention as the developers slowly but surely put it together to a more and more impressive state. So what is it then?

Aztez is two things actually – on one hand it’s a sidescrolling beat-em-up and a bloody one at that, which is accentuated by the black and white visuals and the red blood being the only other color. On the other hand, Aztez will have you establishing and managing an empire; trading in the politics and economy of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica just as the Aztecs are being established. It’s a combination that reminds me like a much more advanced version of Asterix: The Gallic War if you ever played it.

So far, there’s not a huge amount more that can really be said about the game – it simply must be seen, or even better, played! Yes, there are playable builds of Aztez which, while very old now, are stable enough to have a little poke around in. You won’t get much of a sense of where the game is right now from those builds now though as they are a year old, but from what you can see in the latest gameplay video, the combat is looking fairly deep and pretty fun.

Aztez is expected to be release on Windows and Mac in early 2013 for a price of $10, though none of this is set in stone. More information on the game is available on the official website.

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Korean game policy insists that every game must be met with strict measures to ensure that the country’s youth are protected from any harm that games could cause. Turtle Cream, Korean natives themselves, have decided to protest these policies by refusing to release their game in the territories where these policies are active.The sweetest (and cutest) looking game released recently is Korean indie studio Turtle Cream’s Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory. Our review of the game even cites it as “svelte, cartoony sweetness”.

Original Source: Protest: Strict Game Policy Instigates Korean Embargo For Turtle Cream

This Article was originally posted on our sister site, The Indie Game Magazine written by Chris Priestman.

When I say that puzzles enliven any genre of game, I mean it. Although I will admit that there are a few exceptions. As a gameplay element, puzzles lend themselves very well to portions of other games due to the pre-frontal lobe stimulation they bring within the context of a greater challenge. For example, crossing a room is one of the simplest challenges that exists.

Original Source: ‘Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory’ Review – Meat Boy’s Clever Cousin

This Article was originally posted on our sister site, The Indie Game Magazine written by Doug Walter.