I just went shopping in my local Morrisons, and found a stack of PC games marked at £1 in a box. Normally I wouldn't bother, but all of them were published by this publisher: UWish. As of this writing there's nothing at that site, but Amazon also have them HERE. They seem to have been formed recently, and are already publishing (or shortly will) a LOT of titles.
And there really are quite a few: many are new games, others are REISSUES. I noticed a few old favourites: MDK 2, Slipstream 5000 and the rather bloody good Elite clone Hardwar. Sadly Morrisons didn't have the latter, otherwise I would have snapped it up.
The two games I got were brand new: Terminal Machine, and Dark Apes. I didn't expect them to be any good at all, but at a quid each I thought, why not? Terminal Machine sucks. It's a sci-fi FPS with rubbish mouse control, a pathetic 3 levels, and - worst of all - CURSOR keyboard controls only, and no way to remap.
Dark Apes has a completely preposterous premise: set in the 1930s, diseased, zombie apes are taking over a human settlement off the Sumatran coast. Like Terminal Machine, it's a 3D FPS made in 3DGameMaker... but it's not bad! It starts you off in quite a convincing-looking level: a hospital, the sort you see in 60s Bond films.
Rooms full of beds, cupboards, medical equipment etc... and zombie nurses after you. 
It's nothing earth-shattering, but it does have a pretty cool atmosphere and - hallelujah - WSAD controls. Pick it up.
I'm reminded of old companies such as First Star... if I recall correctly - these guys published Boulder Dash on cassette for various 8-bit machines, and various games directly from coders and small software houses. Perhaps UWish are doing the same? Can we finally expect some low-budget PC gaming goodness of a similar level - at least - to 505 Gamestreet's entries for the PS2? Looks like it.
Edit: Huh, they're going to publish PC ports of Guilty Gear Isuka and X2 Reloaded, and a reissue of Freespace 2. I'll be having some of that!
And there really are quite a few: many are new games, others are REISSUES. I noticed a few old favourites: MDK 2, Slipstream 5000 and the rather bloody good Elite clone Hardwar. Sadly Morrisons didn't have the latter, otherwise I would have snapped it up.
The two games I got were brand new: Terminal Machine, and Dark Apes. I didn't expect them to be any good at all, but at a quid each I thought, why not? Terminal Machine sucks. It's a sci-fi FPS with rubbish mouse control, a pathetic 3 levels, and - worst of all - CURSOR keyboard controls only, and no way to remap.
Dark Apes has a completely preposterous premise: set in the 1930s, diseased, zombie apes are taking over a human settlement off the Sumatran coast. Like Terminal Machine, it's a 3D FPS made in 3DGameMaker... but it's not bad! It starts you off in quite a convincing-looking level: a hospital, the sort you see in 60s Bond films.
Rooms full of beds, cupboards, medical equipment etc... and zombie nurses after you. It's nothing earth-shattering, but it does have a pretty cool atmosphere and - hallelujah - WSAD controls. Pick it up.I'm reminded of old companies such as First Star... if I recall correctly - these guys published Boulder Dash on cassette for various 8-bit machines, and various games directly from coders and small software houses. Perhaps UWish are doing the same? Can we finally expect some low-budget PC gaming goodness of a similar level - at least - to 505 Gamestreet's entries for the PS2? Looks like it.
Edit: Huh, they're going to publish PC ports of Guilty Gear Isuka and X2 Reloaded, and a reissue of Freespace 2. I'll be having some of that!
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