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REVIEWTradewinds Odyssey, the newest quest-based adventure from Sandlot Games, shows the publisher listens closely to its fans. Back to the ocean, with stories based on familiar characters from Greek mythology, Odyssey plays like Tradewinds “lite” compared to 2008’s Tradewinds Caravans.
A few players who like to get elbowdeep in complex strategy will be disappointed, but those who preferred the simpler gameplay of Tradewinds 2 will find this fun and engaging. And with six different stories involving pirates, princes, and mythical beasts, you can easily take more than a week before you even get out of story mode!
In each story you have one long Main Quest, whether it’s finding a missing heir, retaking a lost Kingdom, or even finding a cure for mysteriously ill family members. As you complete the main quest, you explore cities, sell tradegoods to earn money, and occasionally fend off pirates or other bad guys. You can also accept optional quests for even more adventures.
The Tradewinds series helped to introduce quest-based adventures to downloadable games a few years ago, and the combination of great stories, quirky humour, and simplified battle gameplay that didn’t require ultrafast reflexes proved an instant hit. True, the graphics were more Spongebob Squarepants than Worlds of Warcraft, but the games proved that adventure games didn’t have to have gritty realism to be entertaining. Read more...
A few players who like to get elbowdeep in complex strategy will be disappointed, but those who preferred the simpler gameplay of Tradewinds 2 will find this fun and engaging. And with six different stories involving pirates, princes, and mythical beasts, you can easily take more than a week before you even get out of story mode!
In each story you have one long Main Quest, whether it’s finding a missing heir, retaking a lost Kingdom, or even finding a cure for mysteriously ill family members. As you complete the main quest, you explore cities, sell tradegoods to earn money, and occasionally fend off pirates or other bad guys. You can also accept optional quests for even more adventures.
The Tradewinds series helped to introduce quest-based adventures to downloadable games a few years ago, and the combination of great stories, quirky humour, and simplified battle gameplay that didn’t require ultrafast reflexes proved an instant hit. True, the graphics were more Spongebob Squarepants than Worlds of Warcraft, but the games proved that adventure games didn’t have to have gritty realism to be entertaining. Read more...
