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Fingers of Fury by Dynamighty is a new action kung-fu game now available on iphone and ipad.

Only your deadly fingers stand between you and death. Enter the Diabolical Dojo and defeat wave after wave of axe wielding thugs in this Endless Kung-Fu brawler from the makers of CounterSpy.

Hey everybody,

We wanted to share some cool news. Thanks to the influx of new players from the PS+ program, we just passed a major milestone for CounterSpy.  Over 1 million players!

We have been so blown away and happy to see all the new people discovering and enjoying CounterSpy. One of the very cool things about making games in the 21st century, is the direct access you have to the people playing your game, via social sites such as Facebook or Twitter. 

We are a small team so it's not always easy to respond to everyone, but we love being able to engage with people, reply to questions, share people's 'lets play' videos and generally keep tabs on what people have to say! :)

The journey of a game can truly be a tough one, sustained by a combination of dreams, passion, experience, optimism and determination.

At the end of it, you have a game! And releasing that game out to the world, then becomes a scary final step.

After all those late nights, all any creative person wants to do, is to create something of value, with passion, and to share it out with the world.

Being able to fulfill this with CounterSpy was a true blessing for us at Dynamighty, and to think that over 1 million people are playing our game, and to see it bringing joy to people's lives, truly does make every long day & hard night worthwhile.

CounterSpy è uno dei giochi gratuiti con PlayStation Plus di marzo. Volete sapere cosa vi aspetta in quest’avventura indie di spie?

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I recently acquired the a PS Plus free game from the PlayStation Store from developers Dynamighty, Counter Spy.

Counter Spy was assisted with developing by SCE Foster City Studio, who has worked on projects such as Uncharted, Infamous, and the Resistance series of past games. Counter Spy was the first time the company worked with an indie dev team with staff who used to work at Lucas Arts and Pixar.

Counter Spy is a wonderful 2.5 D side-scroller  that has the player moving about in a very stealthy way. Taking place in an alternate setting of the Cold War, you act as a counter agent who is sent in by an organization called C.O.U.N.T.E.R.,  to infiltrate both opposing countries military bases in hope of stopping them from launching nuclear missing at each other.

The 2.5-D means the game is mostly viewed and played in a 2-D layout, but has some elements where the camera angle moves in a different position that makes it almost a 3-D layout. This is to optimize precision firing for achieving stealth mode when infiltrating an opponents military base.

Each country, the US and Soviet Union, has a meter that measures the level of alert on both sides. This is the DEFCON status level. If its at DEFCON 5, the alert level is very low where no tension is detected from the country. If its DEFCON 1, then the alert level is very high with the possibility of the country launching its nuclear missiles. These DEFCON meters are determined by the players ability to be stealthy while trying to find missile launch pads, launch plan, launch computers, etc.

Every time a soldier becomes suspicious and radios in, or a security camera notices you, the DEFCON level will rise making the soldiers more alert of your presence. Also, if you’re killed, the DEFCON will automatically rise as well. There is hope, if you find a security guard in white, and make him surrender, that is your chance to lower the DEFCON level.

If the level ever reaches to DEFCON 1, it can begin a 1 minutes countdown that has the player rushing from his current position to the main launch pad at the end of each level . If the player can’t make in time, then it’s game over, the missiles have launched. Boo.

While playing Counter Spy, I found it to be extremely fun, and yet, extremely easy. At first, when you took cover and were able to aim at an enemy before shooting, I thought it was going to hard to obtain head shots. Taking out an enemy with stealth and head shots, allows you to rack up points and competing against other players scores with online syncing.

If at any moment another player died while conducting a mission on the same level as you, you will be notified that an agent went down on the level. When you begin the mission and find the downed agent, you have a chance at recovering whatever they found for extra rewards. That was pretty cool.

There were no cross-hairs for measurement, only large halo the showed you where to take aim. If you try and center the circle over the enemies head, you can almost guarantee a head shot. That’s how easy it was. So, taking out security cameras, guards, and blowing up gas containers, was a piece of cake. Because of how easy it was to progress in this situation, I tried to challenge myself by executing only stealth takedowns. Now, that was hard.

It’s almost impossible to complete the game with just stealth kills. Not even the tranquilizer gun could help me complete the challenge. Although, it made the game more appealing setting my own challenge, so for that, it was a delight to play Counter Spy.

The audio was beautiful and clear, with nice sound effects from the guns, sirens, voices and explosions. Some of the announcements you hear when first entering the level was surprising funny, for example, there was an announcement that said something like, “Attention all personnel, at o’800, everyone is to attend a seminar about exchanging bodily fluids”. It was something like. I laughed so much!

The visuals in the game were very nice as well, with some parts of the game becoming glitchy here and there. It wasn’t really a problem and didn’t affect the gameplay. The colors in the game were bold and crisp looking, it definitely brought out the 60’s feel in the game and matched the music perfectly.

The player also has attributes that can be added to help the agent complete his tasks, such as, endurance enhancers, stealth maneuverability, precision shooting, and many more. Also, there was a nice selection of weapons to buy that would help in missions. I only used the silencer gun, standard pistol, tranquilizer, and occasionally, the shotgun. But, there are several more to choose from, so don’t feel you’re limited to just what I personally used. Lol.

The main object of the game is to find and recover launch plans, launch pads, launch computers, etc., in hopes of placing a detonator on the nuclear missile before it launches. This is to blow up the missiles safely in the sky, bringing peace to the world and its inhabitants.

Once you have done your job and planted the detonator, the game finishes with it almost feeling like you failed, but apparently goes according to plan. I think it was just seeing the missiles launch was what confused at first and for getting the plan was to blow up the missiles in the sky. The End.

Overall, Counter spy was pretty great, it had a nice feel to it and presented a wonderful 60’s theme to an alternate Cold War situation. The story was also very nice and believable if it were to happen, even though there was really no story to be told, I would hope the outcome of any war never ends with missiles being fired at others. It’s all about peace, love, unity, and respect  people. (PLUR; Now I feel like I’m a raver, again. Lol)

Counter Spy

Likes:

Nice, clear artwork

Audio was great for the setting

Button layout was nice and understanding

Enemy AI was believable as 60’s soldiers

I loved the music, personally

Syncing other players progress to challenge yourself was nice

Dislikes:

Some minor glitches while playing

Wasn’t really a challenge to complete

Lacking a story with character development

Shooting was too easy

4 hours of gameplay, wish there was more

Score:

7/10

Our Review of CounterSpy, from @Dynamighty (free on PS+ in March) CounterSpy - Review #CounterSpy #PSPlus

Aside from the obvious (that’ll be FREE games), one of the cool things about the whole PS+ games whatsit is that it can sometimes point you in the direction of titles you may have missed. I’d never heard of CounterSpy for example, so had it not been an offering this month, I’d almost certainly not have played it. Which would have been a real shame, because I really quite enjoyed it.

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News: @PlayStation Plus’ March free games have arrived, and boy do they look #NewNTasty

Among other exciting PlayStation Network reveals today, PlayStation finally announced this month’s titles for the Instant Game Collection. 

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