I’ve started playing an online, free MMORPG game called Urban Dead. Being online and free, it’s not very pretty and actually looks a lot like those door games from the BBS days. If you’ve ever seen any recent zombie movies then you’ll get the gist of the game. Basically, SURVIVE!

The neat thing about this game is that while it’s a MMORPG it’s not addicting (well my guess since I’ve only played today). Not that the game itself may not be addicting, but rather the game doesn’t let you get addicted to it; it rewards you for not playing. Everything you do takes action points (AP) and you have a maximum of 50 AP to spend. So once you’ve done 50 things you can’t do anything else. Your AP is regenerated at a pace of 1 AP per half hour so if you’re dying (pun intended) to do something, then you can wait half an hour and run into a building or something. Neat system, hope it’s fun.

So if it sounds like something you may be interested in, try it out. We’re right now holed in Wykewood which is in the south west section of Malton (see it on the Urban Dead map).

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: games, urbandead, webgeek