Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Three Body Problem Game Review

Three Body Problem
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Play Online: Three Body Problem
Developer: roBurky
Genre: Action

Game Review
Three Body Problem is a game of predicting the trajectory of two orange objects in response to your movements. Simply avoid the orange drones and hover through glowing tiles to earn points. It's amazing how fun such a simple concept can be with proper execution.

Lovely game. Those drones are way smarter than I originally thought. I feel dumb being outsmarted by a computer a million times. It always seems like the enemies seem to know which button I have pressed and acted accordingly without fail. It is simple yet so effective which lead me to wonder, do the drones actually have an AI or are they purely physics based and attracted to the player?

After some experimentation I realized that the drones seem to run directly into you but not really running directly into you. The two orange drones always move in an arch which can be kind of misleading. Generally an arch that puts them straight into your current trajectory, so erratically changing your path is the key. I always try to make them crash into each other and then move away.

Don't feel bad if you suck at this game. I suck equally, my current score is capped at 15 points. Even reaching double figures feels like an achievement! >:) I love the challenge and love watching the drones fight after you die.

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