February 1, 2008 -
Seattle's KING-5 has a report on Majesco's upcoming real-time strategy game Eco-Creatures: Save the Forest for the Nintendo DS:Majesco Entertainment says Eco-Creatures: Save the Forest is the only one of its kind to promote awareness of the perils of "…over-industrialization, deforestation, pollution, extinction and global warming."
With proper care, the creatures can evolve to learn new abilities that help complete the game’s more than 40 environmental missions.
GameSpot has more:
As the name implies, Eco-Creatures is an awfully green game... It's very environmentally friendly... The graphical style may be awfully cutesy, but it looks like there's quite a bit of depth and complexity to the gameplay, so older, tactically minded DS owners may want to give it a look as well.
Eco-Creatures launches on March 4th.
Comments
Nightwng2000
NW2K Software
It's on the DS. DVDs have nothing to do with it. It is stored on silicone based circuitry that poisons the environment.
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
OK Game Devs
Random Tower
Unfornuately, the fuel that must be spent to to ship the games, and for the end user to purchase it (since we dont all have Game Stores within walking distance). The plastic boxes they come in, will degrade by nature in about 10K years. An those nice DVDs have to be made with chemicals that are just plain toxic to the enviroment.
No no no....the message isnt coming out the wrong way or anything....
You basically just said Spore.
Spore is going to be like an updated verson of all those games Spore will be providing simulated Eco-System problems such as you can test the run away effects of greenhouse gases on a planet....Pump it with several kinds of gases. You can eather over heat the planet and turn it into a molten waste land or add gases that can cause the wrong effects such as a run away ice age.
Last I checked there's no way to send a message without "polluting" the environment.
BTW you polluted while you browsed, wrote, and posted your message. Even more ironic.
@ All
As for the game it does seem to be another Captain Planet type environmental awareness push as we had back in the early 1990s. Seems harmless enough and it might even be a good game.
Chibi Robo, Park Patrol is the game you're thinking of.
Agreed. You know anyone who can do a spin-off where we burn the damned forest and it's wildlife?
Rather than burning the forests (I don't hate or even dislike nature), I think there should be a game where we get to burn the damn greentarded hippies that promote global whining.
You get the Brownie for today's best idea.
I want to burn some hippies. I think that would be epically hilarious.
And as a boss, we could toast Al Gore. After all, he's the one who popularized this to the idiotic masses here in America and then got the Nobel Bullshit Prize (Formerly Nobel Prize, but then it became a political tool).
Really, it astounds me how much bile gets thrown around on this site, and from people who know what it's like to be hated on for no reason, too.