I was on iTunes as they have just released the new series of Jersey Shore (I can’t get enough of that Snooki girl. They simply don’t make them like that over here) and I thought that I would have a quick squizz at the Hector : Badge of Carnage page to see how the old girl was getting on. Well, it seems to be going down better than an Italian footballer inside the penalty area.
Not that this comes as much of a surprise, as I have been rabbiting on about how great the game is for some time now. It has been called the best original point and click adventure game on the App Store, so the fact that our punters are full of praise for the game is quite understandable.
Here is a just a sample of some of the things that the growing collection of Hector Heads have had to say about the game so far…
“Hilarious – The Funniest game I have played in a LONG time. Very entertaining. The game has good depth and kept me busy for a good day or two – making it great value for money.”
“This game is funnier than a vegetable that has grown into a rude and amusing shape! Brilliant!”
“Well…it’s OK…I suppose…. No it’s not!!!! It’s B****y Brilliant! Voice acting, great acting, superb humour, unusual and imaginative puzzles; this really is a cut above the competition.”
“It’s like Monkey Island, with hookers. Great for any fans of the old style point and click adventures.”
“Had me aching with laughter. Very well thought out, logical puzzles and great voice acting. Highly recommended.”
“This really is a top quality piece of work, easily on a par with the best Lucasarts adventures!”
“What a great game! Like some of the early PC games before techonology got too clever. Love the humour and the animation style.”
“Bloody Fantastic – excellent writing, great visuals, and the humour (though totally in the gutter) is top-notch. The gameplay is solid and it’s a refreshing change of game style to waht the market is filled with.”
“Awesome – Best game in ages, really well styled and the first truly funny game I think I’ve ever played”
“A superbly put together and very well thoiught out Monkey Island style adventure”
“Brilliant – Best App I have bought. Well worth the money. COuldn’t stop playing it.”
“Smutty…Rude…Love it”
“I regret passing this by when I first looked – its like Monkey Island crossed with Monty Phyton and grime. Absolutley brilliant.”
“It’s so addictive!!!! And such a great price for the amount you get in it! … 5/5, 10/10 or 100/100 whatever you want to call it! It’s worth it!!”
“Have been looking for a new point and click style adventure for a while. This game is bloody awesome! great animation, great dialogue and great humour. A must have for any adventure fan.”
“I’ve been waiting for a game that makes me laugh instantly and this has it all. It is possibly the reason why the iPhone was invented. Six Stars.”
“An utterly genius game from start to finish”
“Rarely do I rate and review apps but I enjoyed this game so much that I felt the developers deserved my 5 Stars.”"This game has it all! A sordid, witty and refreshing sense of humour, a game that won’t ever be beaten and also so original I was dumbfounded! Don’t think, just buy! It’s a steal!!!”
“I purchased this game thinking it would be ok, something to fill a boring 15 min tea break at work but actually found what can only be described as the best game for the iPhone ever. I’ve barley been able to put it down and have on mnay occassions laughed out loud. I’m totally hooked.”
“I’ve played all of the major adventure games from LucasArts etc and this isone of the best I’ve ever played. hector is a brilliantly curmedgeonly larger than life character who I look ofrward to playing again. Like a cross between Sam n Max and Full Throttle but set in grimey England.”
“The best App I have bought ever!!”
Phew! Sorry I did go on a bit there. I’m like a 1970 Ford Pinto, once you start me it’s hard to stop me. There were a great many more excellent reviews, and I should point out that even some of the ratbirds who gave the game 1 star, only did so because they want episode 2. Well, I want the BBC to bring back El-Dorado, but some things are just out of your control, so just sit tight and you will find out about episode 2 in due course.
So all that is really left to do is to download Jersey Shore and settle down for a good night in front of the laptop, with a tub of Haagen-Dasz in one hand and a packet of Kleenex in the other. For my tears of joy obviously. Oh, and you might want to download Hector : Badge of Carnage, but if you haven’t done that already afetr all of these mugs telling you how good it is, then I am clearly dealing with idiots.
I just stumbled across this excellent blog post from Robert Penney, a Graphic Designer from Melbourne or Perth in Australia. Not sure which. But somewhere bloody far away and hot anyway. He has done some artwork looking at how TV’s LOST might look as a late ’80s point-and-click computer game, merging the interface of ‘Monkey Island‘ with the earlier graphic style of titles like ‘Maniac Mansion‘.
Robert has made a series of iPhone wallpapers that you can download from his site. Just click on the above image to go to the site. My particular favourite is the one with Claire telling Charlie “I don’t like liars near moiye baby”. The artwork has attracted praise from luminaries such as David Fox and Ron Gilbert – people who might know a thing or two about the Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island games.
So with all of the talk of Episode 2 of Hector : Badge of Carnage, can Hector-heads expect a trip back in time for the second installment and a game that is even more of a tribute to the classic point and click adventure games from the 80′s than the first game ‘We Negotiate with Terrorists‘ was. Well, here is a sneak peek of the proposed packaging, so you will have to draw your own conclusions….
So, blow the dust of your floppy drive and keep your eyes on the blog and on Twitter and Facebook for news about the second installment of the Badge of Carnage games. Whatever comes of it, you can be sure that there will be no black smoke monsters or 140 year old men wearing excessive eye make-up, but there might well be a frustrating and unfulfilling ending. But that’s just showbiz folks.
So you have given in to the relentless witterings from me on this blog and have gone onto iTunes and downloaded the Hector : Badge of Carnage game. Well done you. But have you got the nouse to get through the game without any help? Thought not. But we here at the Clappers Wreake Constabulary have always been a compassionate bunch, even offering suspects in Hector’s inquiries free pairs of waterproof underwear prior to interrogation. So we thought that we would help out the poor unfortunates who might find the ‘We Negotiate with Terrorists’ game a bit too taxing.
If you click on the image above you will be taken to the exclusive Hector : Badge of Carnage Crawlthrough, that will help you solve the fiendishly difficult puzzles that lie await for you in the irreverent point and click adventure game.
Not sure how to convince that jumped up little turd in the police station to part with his trousers? Or how to get the hub of the Clappers Wreake porn industry shut down? This place has it all. The only thing we ask for in return is your dignity.
So if you are a dirty no good cheat with an imagination like a rusty colander who can’t finish a moderately clever game without having your hand held through the tricky bits this is the site for you. But if you have a single ounce of self respect and want to be able to look yourself in the mirror without feeling a wave of nausea and self-loathing then you will try and complete the game yourself and not bother with all of the winkie holding that goes on in the Crawlthrough.
But if you have no idea what Hector : Badge of Carnage is then I commend you for having persevered in reading this blog post for so long but would seriously question your sanity, as most people who have heard of the game don’t even make it this far. You can find out all you need to know about Hector at www.thehectorfiles.tv and if you are looking for something more interesting to read then I would suggest this.
The current economic downturn has had an impact on us all. The Credit Crunch has forced us all to tighten our belts, whether it is a Wall Street banker having to cancel his latest shipment of ivory back scratchers right down to the workers on Hector : Badge of Carnage having to sacrifice their usual delivery of Sticky Buns on a Friday in order to finish the game on budget.
But we at Straandlooper like to think that we have created a product that flies in the face of the global financial crisis. Hector : Badge of Carnage – the point and click adventure game for the iPhone and iPod Touch – is currently on sale on iTunes for a recession-busting price of £2.39.
So what I thought I would do today was show you what else you can get for 239 of your British pennies so you can judge for yourself what sort of value for money you are getting for your coin these days. Here is just a small sample of the delights you can purchase online for just under two and half Sterlings.
Black Flocked Topper Hat with Band
Pet Munchies Chicken Chips Healthy Natural Dog Treats
95 9mm diameter Blue Coin Fire polished glass disc beads
Havana 60″ Drop White Net Curtain
General Electric Series G 50 Amp B Type MCB Circuit breaker
Or you could buy Hector : Badge of Carnage – the most original point and click adventure game on the App Store!
What you get:
- 18 sordid, filthy, rundown locations
- 23 well-developed & witty characters (+ 1 stinking drunk)
- 40 Inventory items (includes Free Lubricant!)
- 397 interactive objects
- 2421 spoken lines of dialogue
- Cinematic cutscenes
- Original score
- A good few hours worth of low action puzzle-solving gameplay
Now I am no David Dickinson, but even I know that Hector is a little Bobby Dazzler, and is probably the best £2.39 you will ever spend in your life. So what are you waiting for. Blow the cobwebs off your wallet, take the padlock off your piggy bank and head on over to iTunes now and grab yourself a copy of Hector : Badge of Carnage. Click here to go to the Hector : Badge of Carnage page on iTunes now or go to www.thehectorfiles.tv to find out more about Hector : Fat Arse of the Law. Or go and buy your bloody circuit breakers and top hats. See if I care!
Indie Vault, an Italian website that provides news on game development, tutorials, indie games and tips for indie developers, has put together a list of the 10 best point and click adventure games made by independent studios that people might not have heard of. And Hector : Fat Arse of the Law has made it onto the list with the first installment of the trilogy of ‘Badge of Carnage’ games for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad – ‘We Negotiate with Terrorists’
Now, I am to translating Italian what Chris Moyles is to the Slim Fast Plan, so at this point I have to give special thanks to Google Translate for providing the rather interesting translations from the Indie Vaults website. Enjoy.
Who said the point and click are dead? That there are more adventures than once? That was better when we were worse? Despite what is said around, no need to wait a remake of Monkey Island or the return of an old franchise to get their hands on an adventure of quality, and who has time and desire to dig deep in the undergrowth indie knows. The recent Machinarium it was a clear example, praised by all for its excellent puzzles and her charming style, the game of Amanita Design has been a great media echo and has won several awards. However, the indie scene hides many adventures less publicized but no less deserving of being played, to keep you company in this hot summer so we decided to list 10 point and click you could be lost.
That was better when we were worse? Indeed. But I do have to agree with them when they say that the indie scene does indeed hides a few gems. And one of those gems comes in the rather undignified shape of Hector : Badge of Carnage.
Here is what they had to say about Hector : Badge of Carnage:
Recently appeared on the iPhone and iPod Touch, the first chapter of Hector: Badge of Carnage is definitely one of the best adventures published on Apple’s handheld platforms. The style of the drawings may be drawn largely misleading, since the game is definitely not suitable for a younger audience. Impersonating a detective atypical, very politically incorrect, the player will have to rob people to gather clues, beat in the most colorful suspicion or make a jump, with confidence, from the shop’s red-light trust. Hector enjoys good design, good dubbing and pleasant interlude scenes, but the strength is the irony and wickedness of dialogues and various game situations.
Not sure what making a jump from the red-light trust is, but I am glad that they enjoyed it. Thanks to the guys at Indie Vault for including us in their list. We are especially honoured to be the only iApp on the list, the rest of the games being either PC or Flash based games, the platform more normally associated with point and click adventure games. Maybe Hector will make his way onto the the PC platform some time in the future. You never know!!!
I would like to think that Hector : Badge of Carnage made it onto the list by merit alone and it was not as a result of the influence of Italian immigrant Filthy Rich from Clapper’s Wreake finest purveyor of smut – the Exotico porn shop. I would like to think that it simply because Hector : Badge of Carnage is a great game and I suggest that you toddle on down to the App Store now and get yourself a copy for your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Click here to go to iTunes now or go to www.thehectorfiles.tv to find out more about Hector : Fat Arse of the Law.
Hector : Badge of Carnage – the point and click adventure game for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad has just been reviewed by AdventureGamers.com – the news and review site for all that is great and good in the world of adventure games.
They sum the game up quite nicely -
Its comic irreverence takes no prisoners, but iPhone users will want to brave the filth of this episodic adventure.
I have always said it, but there is nothing quite like a bit of filth and Hector : Badge of Carnage is filthier than Amy Winehouse’s undercrackers. Hector : Badge of Carnage ‘We Negotiate with Terrorists’ is the first installment of a proposed trilogy of games based on the adventures of Hector : Fat Arse of the Law – the violent, drunken and vulgar Detective Inspector of the Clappers Wreake Police Department. In this episode Clappers Wreake is in the grip of a hostage crisis and Hector is the only man who can help save the town from a fate worse than having to spend the night in the company of Noel Edmonds. You must guide Hector through the streets of Clappers Wreake, the crime capital of Britain, pointing and clicking your way through the town, interacting with the eclectic townsfolk such as Filthy Rich, the proprietor of the local porn shop, or Blind Ali, the local, well… blind guy and many more sordid and reprehensible characters. As I mentioned it is pretty filthy. But filthy in a good way. Like Katy Perry.
The guys at AdventureGamers.com clearly like their adventure games as it is probably the most comprehensive review that I have seen to date. So what do the guys in the know think of the game? Well, it should come as little surprise to you that they absolutely love it! They give the game 4 out of 5 stars listing the games ‘pros’ as:
Stylish Art and Animation
Fun Puzzles
Excellent Production Values
Genuinely Funny
In the downsides to the game they list a limited save system. Well, they will be delighted to hear that one of the first updates that we did for the game addressed this issue and the save system is now much more comprehensive. So you could probably chalk on another half a star to their score now! A big thank you to Adventure Gamers for the great review. The game was made for cats like this, the adventure gamer folk, as an homage to great point and click adventure games of the past like ‘Day of the Tentacle’ and the ‘Monkey Island’ series of games, so to get such a glowing review from this site is a very welcome addition to our growing list of fans.
Overall, Hector: Badge of Carnage is an excellent, if potty-mouthed, experience that makes a strong case for the iPhone and iPod Touch as adventure gaming platforms…
…if you’re hankering for a classic point-and-click experience like the genre’s golden days, or have been thinking to yourself “there really isn’t enough swearing in adventure games these days”, this game is well worth a look.
Click here to go to the Hector : Badge of Carnage page on iTunes now or go to www.thehectorfiles.tv to find out more about Hector : Fat Arse of the Law.
IGN – the well respected site for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PC, DS, PSP & iPhone games with expert reviews, news, previews, trailers, cheat codes and strategy guides has given Hector : Badge of Carnage the once over and they seem to agree with just about everyone else who has set eyes on the most original point and click adventure game in the App Store. They think it is great!
Can’t say I’m that surprised. I have been banging on about how great the Hector game is for some time now. The fact that everyone is starting to realise that I was right is no shock. The only puzzling thing is that it took so long for people to realise this. The other puzzling thing is what does IGN actually stand for? Informative Gaming Nuggets? Intelligent Goat Negotiations?
Anyway, whatever IGN does stand for, they sure seem to know a lot about games and they sure seem to like Hector : Badge of Carnage. They gave the game a whopping 8.5 out of 10, earning it the rank of ‘Great’. Lofty praise indeed!
Here’s how they sum up the game:
Hector is one lewd and crude dude. Without the excellent script, though, this would have just been a collection of shock value scenes. However, the genuine humor and smart puzzles hearkens back to the glory days of point-and-click adventure games. (Well, the Leisure Suit Larry games, not the Lucasarts adventures.) I hope enough folks give Hector a spin because I’d hate to see a game this clever and this polished be a one-off.
But please don’t just take my word for it. Click here to go to IGN and read the review for yourself and then why not check out the game for yourself too!
Hector : Badge of Carnage, the most original point and click adventure game to ever hit the App Store has another fan, and this time it is not just one of the gibbering idiots like me who made the game, it is from a respected App review website. Well…, an App review site anyway.
AppSafari has a growing gallery of over 5,615 applications built for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, withdaily impartial iPad & iPhone app reviews. And I can vouch for their impartiality as they sent back the pictures I forwarded to them of Maureen from the canteen in various states of undress that I had hoped would help Hector get a favourable review. Clearly the chaps at AppSafari are not into middle aged women dressed in nothing but tabards.
But what the chaps at AppSafari are into are seriously good Apps, and this is where Hector : Badge of Carnage comes in. It is a seriously good App and the guys at AppSafari couldn’t agree more! They have given Hector full marks in their review, calling the game “one of the best point and click adventure games in the App Store”. But their praise doesn’t stop there…
It’s almost hard to believe this is an entirely new game, as it stands up with the best of the classic 90’s adventure games, albeit more on the side of Leisure Suit Larry than King’s Quest. Brilliant animation and terrific voice acting make Hector an exceptionally polished stand out. In a similar style to the Sam & Max series, but far dirtier and grittier, the game is so risque, it’s almost surprising that Apple approved it at all, but how we are very fortunate they did. Hector is well-worth playing, with all the drugs, booze, prostitutes, and gore intact.
They also go on to say:
Children and the easily offended need not apply, but if you’re a fan of mildly naughty, but gloriously witty and beautifully animated adventure games, absolutely and without a doubt give Hector: Badge of Carnage a try.
But don’t just take my word for it! They do actually say all of these great things and more! Click here to go and read the full review for yourself. And while you are there why not rate the game to show everyone else how great you think the game is. Just click on the 5 star rating system at the top of the page to register your vote.
AppSpy.com, the iPhone games review site has posted a video review of Hector : Badge of Carnage on YouTube. It is one of the most entertaining reviews that I have come across since we launched the game. It is certainly the first time that I have heard Hector referred to as a young Joe Don Baker! And to be fair to Andrew from AppSpy the similarities are quite striking! Other than playing Brad Whitaker in the Living Daylights, Baker is most famous for playing Mitchell, an abrasive alcoholic police inspector. Sound familiar?
But back to the review. It starts by saying
“Hector: Badge of Carnage starts out in the gutter and only gets lower!”
which is a real compliment as we were aiming pretty low with some of the humour in this game!
A big thank you must go to Andrew for saying “It’s nice to see dedicated attention to detail” We thought that nobody had noticed the detail. The detail was my favorite bit of the game! So that was made me particularly happy. So if you haven’t checked out Hector : Badge of Carnage, listen to Andrew from AppSpy, who sums up the game pretty well:
“It may be lowbrow, but it’s still great fun to play through, especially if you have grown up with the classics Sam & Max or the Leisure Suit series”
Click here to go to iTunes now and get your copy of Badge of Carnage or go to www.thehectorfiles.tv to find out more about Hector : Fat Arse of the Law.
During one of my many sessions trawling the Internet for items of interest I stumbled across this new video review of Hector : Badge of Carnage on Techsposed’s YouTube Channel. Tech-sposed. Do you see what they have done there. Very clever. Anyway, why I was searching for the term ‘exposed’ on YouTube is irrelevant but suffice to say that the rumours about the Helen Mirren Sex Tape seem to be unfounded.
Alex from Techsposed has given Hector : Badge of Carnage a quick once over on his iPhone and has posted a video of his thoughts. Here are just a few of the quotes from the video:
“I’ve laughed more at this game than any game to date!”
“Incredible Cut Scenes. The animation quality is totally awesome!”
“Voice acting is Fantasic. The Story is Hilarious. If you want a good laugh for relatively cheap go pick up Hector : Badge of Carnage today! Cheap for a Game of this quality!”
“Pick this one up! You will not regret it!”
I particularly liked his comment about getting at least 3 hours of gameplay out of Hector, with potentially more if you’re not really that smart. Nuff said. It took me 2 weeks to get out of the cell!
If you have not checked out Hector : Badge of Carnage then hotfoot it on over to iTunes and pick up your copy! Click here to go to iTunes now or go to www.thehectorfiles.tv to find out more about Hector : Fat Arse of the Law and the game that has taken the App Store by storm. Well, maybe not a storm. Maybe more of a nasty squall.
