Unfinished: Cannon Brawl 07/11/2014

I love this game, although the player base seems to be incredibly small. Usually about 20 something people whenever I'm on multiplayer.

@djvelho: You'll never get the quest now.

I thought this game had been out for a couple years now. It's still considered "unfinished"?

Seems pretty interesting.

@d_w: not final release yet, so technically unfinished

Put it on PS4 and I'll buy 8 copies. Wait, no. Just 1. 8 would be wasteful.

You mean you finally have a member of staff that actually likes Worms? About bloody time!

edit: yeah I know most of the Worms games are crap.

Oh man, they have to play this game again sometime in the future. A lot of fun to watch played locally. Plus Brad needs to reclaim his honour after getting a bit more practice ;P

Great QL, this game looks really fun!

Great Quick Look, but the quality, man :(

SO MUCH CONTENT

"Oi me APMs!"

AAAAAAAANNNNNNNND SOLD!!! Buying this immediately.

DAN MORE SHIELDS PUT IN MORE SHIELDS

Danny had the devs on The Lobby last week, and they totally mentioned that this game is focused on multiplayer more than single, so Dan and Brad's musings were correct.

Real good chance I'll be buying this today too.

The idea of local multiplayer with my unlockable-obsessed, destruction-loving son is a deal-sealer.

Where're my turn-based strats? :(

Dan is the definition of exuberant. :D

Beef O'Brady's amazing comeback video on Gamespot sold me on this on the spot. This game is so fucking fun. It's great local multiplayer, an RTS with which you can hold tournaments with your friends and have matches that last less than 10 minutes. It's pure gold, and it's almost a shame that you can easily judge this book by its mobile-game art style cover. It looks great in action though, works very well when the game is being played.

Hopefully the balance is tight, because I want to watch the hell out of some esports dudes playing this on Twitch.

Seems to me like the multiplayer is pretty much "win first tower fight, win game".

What's up with all these pseudo mobile game quicklooks?

Jesus Dan! Show some mercy! He's just a rookie for god's sake!

@ares42: I think not. They were both just going for straight up destruction over any sort of defense. I haven't played the game but neither used that freezing tower which depending on the balance could stop an opposing player long enough for a counter attack. Put in that nuke thing while their towers are frozen and hit several mines with it and you could turn things around. Plus taking out ground beneath your opponent's mines while he or she is busy destroying your actual mines and towers could be really effective in turning a battle around as well.

Of course as Brad said, in Starcraft and other strategy games an early mistake can often end up deciding a match.

While I was a little skeptical at first, I am really liking the Dan X Brad pairing.

Also all this Monday content, it's crazy.

@ares42: watch the gamespot quick look of it for an epic comeback

This has similar look to CastleStorm. I bet, without looking, that it was made by the same group!

Can't say I'm all that into these small scale RTSes, but this seems like a pretty interesting hybrid of Herzog Zwei and Worms.

Both Jeff and Brad seemed somewhat into it when they did the most recent Worms quick look a couple of months ago.

@yummylee: This would be the perfect thing to play on UPF. The current multiplayer selection is getting a bit stale. They also need to play something that Jeff isn't extremely familiar with/good at. That has always felt unfair.

@raven10: The thing is, aggression starts too early for any tower diversity to matter. You build the first mines and then an attack tower and the fight starts. If you win that fight you're in a huge advantage since you can start attacking the opponents mines and just "mirror" whatever your opponent does and you will eventually win through eco. If you don't answer your opponents tower with a tower you instantly lose (so going for greed is a non-option, as shown in the QL), and if you go for the non-confrontation it's still first tower wins since it gives the initiative advantage.

The only way you will get any real strategy out of the game is if the bases are much further apart so each player gets the chance to develop some sort of strategy before the fighting starts.

Nope. Castlestorm was made by the guys that made the zen pinball games, Zen Studios. Cannon Brawl is made by Turtle Sandbox, and it is their first game. And by the looks of their website they seem to mainly be a team of 2 people.

Dan sounds like someone out of Gentlemen Broncos

Dan I loving your Quick Looks. This game is like super hectic yo! So I dedicate this summer jam in your honor sir:

That's the overall feel I got from this game after watching the Quick Look. Not for me, I guess.

Bran Quick Looks will be interesting to see going forward!

I wonder if I'll prefer them over Jan QLs.

This would be the offspring of Scorched Earth and Warcraft.

I see you are trying to make a duo name thing happen but I need to stop you now cause those are horrible. Not just in general but in the combining of two names into four letters or less makes only a indecipherable word.

Does Dan play anything other than mobile games and Twisted Metal? Just wondering.

This game looks kind of neat though.

The bitrate on this video is ass. Just compare the little video feature intro in this to the one Vinny put out today.

I ship Danrad, Jeffan is my notp!!! #shipping it so hard #reblog #otp #notp

Does Dan play anything other than the games he's been recorded playing in his first couple of weeks on the site? Probably not.

@fapathy: Well so far I've seen him play a horror game, a Trials-like game, Command and Conquer 3/ Red Alert 2, plus heard him talk about playing Valiant Hearts and Shovel Knight.

I abhor this art style but the gameplay seems much more inspired than I expected.

What? You're crazy! Totally HD!

Hit the green blob to continue!

How about just Dad and Jan?

This looks pretty awesome.

This is pretty crazy. Nice work!

While winning an early encounter is a big advantage, it's almost like saying "well whoever zerg rushes better wins"

They didn't really get to explore most of the building types and strategies