Recent reviews by Jebediah Kerman

Great game to play with a few friends... That is until you all rage quit after being killed by blatant hackers 5 games in a row.

Not even like, "Oh that could have just been a lucky shot" kinda kills... The kinda ones that have been shooting at you for the past 5 minutes even though you're in heavy cover because their software has locked onto your head, and they're just tapping the mouse button.

tl;dr Fantastic concept with a good execution... But has some strange quirks that need to be addressed.

As someone who really enjoys a tycoon game AND a glass of wine, this was right up my alley. And let me say right off the bat, I enjoy playing this game... It's interesting, follows some good tycoon concepts, and is something that you can just jump on and play for a bit. You feel accomplished when you've had awful weather throughout the growth period, and you still manage to get a 5 star rating.

However, there are some quirks that might throw new and veteran tycoon players alike.

-Money seems to be doing it's own thing. I had 3 plots of land and $50,000 in the bank, went bankrupt. Had a near-identical situation with only $15,000 and I got through just fine.

-Difficulty seems inconsistent. At the start of the game, you're thrown into the deep end, working out how to make wine. But once you've figured it out, you can easily make 5 star wines from Day 1... Then pests start to infect your crop, but you're no where near researching the technique to combat it, so you suddenly go bankrupt.

-Reward system isn't very rewarding. I've stopped opening up the chest after getting a 5 star review, it seems to do more harm than good. Having to give away 3000 bottles for free to the Army in year 2 doesn't sound all that fun... Neither does 3 months of solid rain.

-No auto-save. This is a minor gripe, but having one of the above happen and realising you haven't saved in an hour is a pretty big blow. This wouldn't be too bad if you had a bit of warning about imminent doom, but the game can sneakily drop you to -$10,000 and boom. You're at the game over screen.

All in all, I would say this is a game to check out despite the issues. The devs look to be quite active in adding new features, listening to feedback and fixing up bugs when they show up.

This is an FPS MMO done right. I don't think I can fault it. No lag, tight controls, plenty of weapons and classes, each faction has a nice balance to them... And it's free!