The Gist Of It: Unfinished: Offworld Trading Company 02/19/2015
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RTS Monopoly in space
The Unfinished: Running time: 32:47, Starring Alex Navarro and Vinny Caravella
Alex plays a single-player quick match at the third tier of difficulty against three bots. He explains most of what he's doing, but a lot of it he does without explaining what he's doing or why and there are a few concepts that go unexplained entirely, but he can be excused for not explaining every move fully while playing the game and Vinny does a good job of filling in some of the gaps. It seems like Alex fills out pretty much the whole tech tree, including the coveted Pleasure Dome, for which he fails to secure the Virtual Reality patent. Ultimately, his company is bought out by his eternal rival, Mr. Upgrade, and Alex nets a cool $3,000,000,000 from this transaction.
There's a discussion of Trading Places amidst the economic espionage of the game and Vinny talks about a thing he saw recently where the potentially confusing ending of the movie was explained.
Alex said the game looks neat and Vinny, inspired by the half-hour it takes to place a single game, suggests it's probably a good game to play in the morning with a cup of coffee and a newspaper.
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