Media Review: Ceiling Siege

Today was all fun and games at work. After a few hours of handfolding, machine folding, spiraling and paperwork, I got paid to play Ceiling Siege.

Ceiling Seige is a copy cat game that attempts to cash in on the thrills and popularity of the ever popular Tomb Raider franchise. Like the TR games CS stars a noble adventurer who climbs through dark cramped passages searching for clues and certain items that hold some intrinsic value to someone somewhere, while trying to avoid falling through trap doors, becoming impaled on sharp objects, or touching the rigged timber that will bring down the structure.

I must say that after playing CS I think it is unlikely to attract the similar amounts of fans or critical aclaim as the TR games. First, there is the rather obvious fact that the protagonist of CS, a skinny, bald, white guy, is not going to receive the appreciation that Lara Croft and her very... unlikely proportions get from the average, male, relationally-inept gamer. Additionally, the backstory of TR is a great deal more exciting than the rather bland CS. While TR stars a rich heiress who travels the world in search of priceless archeological artifacts and fights hordes of gun weilding thugs, CS stars an average guy who is crawling around in the overheads and false ceilings of his boss's printshop in an attempt to locate, extract and restring telephone wire while facing no bad guys of any kind. Instead he braves the usual dangers of falling through sheetrock, stabbing his hand with wires or falling off of ladders. The final and probably the most off-putting feature of the game was its user interface. CS uses a state of the art Real Life interface.

Okay, so maybe Ceiling Siege isn't a game. Heck, it's not even fun. Oh well.