Mom's Minute

Rochard:  Available September 27, 2011 (Now!)

Source of News:  Artic StartUp, S. Khan, September 28, 2011

Article:  Rochard is the New Space Hero Protecting Us From Aliens!

Just released is a video game available to play on the PlayStation 3.  Sony Online Entertainment and Finnish Recoil Games bring you an alien fighting hero who goes by the name of John Rochard. Rochard is an astro-miner whose mission is to save earth from evil aliens!

According to the author of the article, this is not simply a side scrolling game where the hero fights aliens with various weapons.  There's much more including puzzles to solve along the way. Rochard even has a side kick alien annihilator.

Here is a picture of the puzzle solving play mode.

The premise of the story is Rochard finds a valuable artifact in space.  Since this artifact is extremely valuable, other forces are interested in taking it for their own.  Of course,  then the struggle to get or to retain the artifact becomes the basis for the fights, etc.

Here is a picture of John Rochard, better known as the "Alien Fighter."

Ms. H's take: I watched a short preview of this game located on the  original article which gave me a flavor of what to expect in this game. But as you know, watching and playing the game are two different things!

From what I see, this game has cartoon type graphics and lots of color combinations. This particular video game is not familiar to me, but according to the author it has been well anticipated.

I mentioned earlier that this game has puzzles for you to solve.  Speaking of puzzles, it puzzles me that a game company would only make a game playable on  one system.  For example this game, which is already out, is available for play on the PS3 only, and is currently not available for other game systems.  

To me and the rest of the non-PS3 owners, I guess we will either have to get a PS3 if we want to play this game, or depend on the kindness of others to let us know how they like it. 

That being said, there's nothing like playing the game for yourself!  Eventually Rochard may expand to other gaming platforms, so we all can play it, either for its entertainment value or just to decide for ourselves whether or not we like this game.

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