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Gun Monkeys: Killing for Cubes for Humanity

From Herobyclicking

If you were ever familiar with Size FIve Games when they were Zombie Cow Studios, you would know that they make games, BAFTA-award winning to boot. Though you might be more than a little surprised to know that the game that won an award from the British Academy of Film and Television, Privates, had to do with sexually transmitted diseases. If you were really familiar with them you would know that Dan Marshall of the one-time Zombie Cow Studios also made several adventure games: Time Gentlemen, Please! and Ben There, Dan That! But the name change wasn’t Dan evading taxes, the mob or a malicious ex-lover. There was no hostile takeover, no obscene exchange of words or messy mergers, Dan Marshall of Zombie Cow Studios just hated the name. “The way I see it, there’s no point going through life putting up with something that makes you unhappy if it’s completely within your power to change it,” states Marshall on his blog back in 2011. That quote was preceded by Dan’s admission that “Well, it turns out actually cows are stupid.” So now, with over three years of brandishing the name Size Five Games (creators of the fifth size of games, don't you know), Dan Marshall is still making comedy games, and Gun Monkeys is no exception. Though funny it may be, Gun Monkeys is an explosively engaging good time.

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Gun Monkeys is a procedurally generated platform 1v1 shooter. But really they had me at Gun and Monkey(s). If being a monkey with a gun was not enough, there is actually a bit of story to go along with this relatively nihilistic view of our future of humanity. In the future, an experiment of catastrophic levels decimates humanity. This experiment created Perpetual Energy, a powerful resource that you can now send your bevy of monkeys into the future to retrieve. The game revolves around these yummy cubes of murderous energy. You collect this energy while fending off a monkey from a rival energy corporation. During the match each player’s power is ticking away, while dying drains it even more so. It costs a fair amount of Perpetual Energy to send a replacement monkey hurtling into the future. All this information enters your ears if you have patience and have the volume up while playing the tutorial. Yes, I know this from experience. Yes, I have played through the tutorial more than once. The tutorial is handily voiced by the British comedian Kevin Eldon, known for all sorts of things you may have seen on the BBC, Channel 4 or the internet. It was a pleasant gem when a bit of commentary would spring up intermittently while dueling to the death, snarking on about a particular power-up or whatnot. While my ears were being given a lovely treat of Kevin Eldon, my eyes were granted a glowing love-fest. The bright, sharp colors and use of line created an inviting playground for your monkey to trounce or be trounced.

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I have been known to shout many things during multiplayer matches. Many of which I cannot repeat here, though the one that most readily comes to mind is, “I hate this map.” I can’t say that for Gun Monkeys as each map is procedurally generated. Neither player has the upper hand from knowing the particulars of the map; no muscle memory etched into the players reactions. Gun Monkeys deposits the players on an even field of play. In addition to the random creation of the maps, there is no way of predicting the location of the drops for either power-up or power cube. The only advantage a veteran player may have is from using their winnings to purchase a variety of perks which enhance the previously mentioned power-ups, movement or energy collection.
Most plainly put, the playing of Gun Monkeys is raw fun. I was nearly as pleased losing as I was winning, and I was often losing. I didn’t mind, because the games were quick and close. It was exciting, nearly chest-pounding so because of how quickly a lead can be lost or gained. If I could have bribed my fellow player hang out in the lobby, for one more rematch, I would have. Gun Monkeys got me hooked. After three or four consecutive games of not blinking and short breath from, well, not breathing I wanted more. More guns, more monkeys and more power-cubes. Give them to me, now.

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So let’s see; Monkeys with Guns, Check. Random map and item generation, Check. Ability Enhancement, Check. What’s missing? You. There is absolutely no reason why you shouldn’t be playing Gun Monkeys right this moment. In fact, unless you are trapped under car without proper access to your laptop and internet you should be ashamed. Size Five Games carefully crafted these gun toting primates for us to enjoy, it would be rude to not partake.

Gun Monkeys is available on Steam. If you don’t have someone to play with you locally then you are in luck. Each purchase of Gun Monkeys comes with two keys (one in the form of a Steam gift).

Day 29 | Size Five Games

MrxDeath3559d ago

looks great
but like i said this was free :3

oasdada3559d ago

Ill get my hands all over it as soon as i get it..

@mrxdeath
U sure the full version was free?

dota2champion3558d ago (Edited 3558d ago )

He's probably talking about "free weekend play" Steam sometimes let users play a full game for an entire weekend

Derekvinyard133559d ago

I miss monkeys :-( I remember in timesplitters they were huge but now everything is zombies

herobyclicking3559d ago

Oh my, I played that tone until my eyes bled. My friends hated that I played Robofish all of the time.

nunley333559d ago

love games like this, i'm not gonna whine about some saying it was free. It's cheap and deserves some money for it. I wish them luck with this and in the their future projects.

herobyclicking3559d ago

And each purchase gives you an additional key to share. Seriously, great fun for the price.

ichizon3558d ago

Well, it's not free per se, but the developer is handing out free codes randomly, because the game has had issues filling the lobbies for lone players. He said it had already paid for its development and considers it a success, but while many players may be playing private matches as he intended, some are stuck in empty lobbies.

An alternative would be not to have a lobby system at all, but I think having one, even if empty, trumps just not having one. Marshall's working on finding solutions to the issue, and giving out keys is one of the proposed solutions. Getting more people playing the game.

What's more work though? Searching for one of the keys, or coughing up a few bucks from your hourly wage for a couple of copies?

beepbopadoobop3559d ago

The little monkey dudes with guns look awesome!

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Fallout 4's 'next gen' update is over 14 gigs, breaks modded saves, & doesn't change much at all

We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.

isarai5h ago

Wow what the actual hell 🤣🤣🤣

just_looken5h ago

This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.

On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.

Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...

Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken

Valkyrye3h ago

Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.

just_looken1h ago

There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods

There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.

On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.

Inverno8m ago

lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.

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Why Monopolies In Gaming Must Not Be Allowed

As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.

thorstein4h ago

Shouldn't be allowed in any field.

Inverno17m ago

And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.

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