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.
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.



























8 Comments:
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Ceiling Siege... the height of virtual-physical life interaction! Be the first one to own it and beat it's many difficult levels! First one to beat Ceiling Siege at "Life Threatening" Difficulty will receive a collector's edition Office Manager pincushion!
Ceiling Siege... coming to a store near you. It may be pre-ordered for a simple fee of 5.99 (US Dollars). Please place your order to ceilingsiege(tm)@gmail.com where our people will promptly look over your order and send you back the final details.
Hmm, I wonder if they'll let me help with the expansion: Ceiling Siege: Beyond the Attic.
hola just wanted to say love the blog, i am a homeschooling mama of 5 little ones and was wondering what curriculum or method your mama used and used and uses to teach your sibling...Fantastic..oh are you in a university or community college? just wondering...
oh i forgot to mention as well that www.rebelution.com was a neat site...
New from the people who brought you ceiling seige and ceiling seige: Beyond the attic comes the long awaited new saga! Attic attack! Explore 24 new levels, two new charaters and lots more danger!
Also keep an eye out for the all new spin-off, Basement Battle!
Hey, I was working on the expansion for that too: Basement Battles: In the Celler.
y'all are too funny. *laugh*
I guess I get to market the game Laundry Master for those who'd like to see if they could possibly get all clothes washed, dried, folded, and put away before more clothes are worn and added to the mountain. You get to pick the level by adding new "clothes horses" to wear the clothes you've washed...levels start with just one and can be expanded to 12 "horses", with options like "stain master","dry clean", and "hand wash only". Hmm..I don't think it'll be a real popular choice.
*laugh*
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