[spirokeat]

In relation to Chaos Overlords.

To be honest, I trust reviewers about as much as I trust a crack addict with my Tele. CO was a fantastic game, amazingly bug free, easy to play and get into and SHONE in MP.

As a theme style player (sandboxer?) I loved the detail on the gangs and how you had to set them up, street level gangs out causing chaos to extort you cash and your hitech merc gangs and Monk orders patrolling your borders taking out rivals and expanding terrirtory.

It was very stylish, equiping your Metal Moshers gang with shades and ghetto bLasters to cause hassle and generate cash. My fave, the Neck Kickers a melee gang that specialised in kicking people in the neck !!

Your right though, it was less about robbery etc than a conceptual representation of it via chaos and control. The rest was empire and research to keep your gangs equiped and in the game.

The one innovative thing was you could create MP games where everyone was annoymous in terms of the real player...I dont recall the exact mechanics of it, but you could play so only the server sys knew who the other players were RL. One classic game myself and housemate whos puter was next to mine, posed as 2 of the other 6 friends in the game, no one knew if it was the real people playing themselves as a ruse or one of the others imitating and which ones anyway ! was a hoot !.

Still, back to MoM, Someone mentioned the intro....how classic was that....Its still a bit of a chant amongst my friends, 'OLD MAN !!!!!! YOU SEEK !!! Etc. hehe.

Who liked the diplomacy in Moo ? it was kinda good and kinda bad at the same time at least you could attempt to divert a nation by making offerings etc which was good and you could also manipulate the higher tech races into trading **** with you.

One thing with DOM is that once you attack be it by accident as you both go for an Inde, you are at war and they single mindedly go for you.

Spiro.