This post probably needs some (im)proper  mood music, so feel free to click here or here if you want like a bit of earwiggy sacrilege. Catness Game Studios (HIVE: Altenum Wars) second game, The Savior’s Gang ($4.99) is guaranteed to ruffle a few feathers among the easily offended, but you have to give the developer credit for knowing how to get a few laughs in the right places. Here’s five minutes of gameplay for you (and nope, you won’t go to heck in a hound biscuit for watching):

There’s quite a bit to like here, from the isometric viewpoint to the amusing quips when some poor soul buys the farm in one of many painful-looking ways. A few bugs are being fixed thanks to user feedback, so the game is in that improvement phase pretty much every game goes through post-launch. Fortunately, all this mayhem won’t be exclusively for PC players, as Catness is working on console ports (nice!) to be released at some point in the future. It’ll be interesting to see how this translates to a game pad, but I think it can indeed be done and work quite well.

So, The Life of Brian meets Diablo, but as a simulation/action game? OK, I’m in.

Of course, we shall see what happens in regards to those ports, but unless there’s lightning bolts randomly hitting the space around Catness’ studios (hey, who called Zeus up anyway?), let’s keep a finger crossed that this one gets played and enjoyed by as many gamers as possible

-GW