Friday Fun Picks returns!

Yes! Bone: The Great Cow Race is now available! Which means that I am free once again to unleash my game realted jibba jabba on the world! Even though its Sunday, I am going to offer forth these Friday Fun Picks for your enjoyment. These are two new games from Gamelab. Plantasia I have been playing this game to death. As a matter of fact, I have played every single level and then gone back and completed them all again on expert. All except for one. That last level is actually the second to last level in the game and it is DAMN hard!! Anyway, Plantasia is a truly fantastic game which brilliantly blends real time strategy with horticulture. You plant your cute little flowers in strategic formations while protecting them from weeds and bugs. This is all couched in an adorable love story between the fairy that is doing the planting and the owner of the estates where the gardens grow. Way to sneakily introduce the mom demographic to the world of RTS's! I have a Gameblast account, but this is one of those few games I have encountered online that I would gladly have paid full price for. Egg v. Chicken This game has been getting more attention than the afore-mentioned Plantasia. It is a solidly good game, but I prefer Plantasia myself. Nonetheless, this has a great story about these eggs going through time fighting the oppressive chickens everywhere along the way. Historical dictators appear in chicken form in each "age", the boss of some effort to keep the good eggs down. There is a great (if somewhat bizarre) sense of humor going on here, but it wouldn't be a Gamelab game if it didn't have fun gameplay behind it as well. This is kind of an action strategy game, and it can get damn well hectic at times! You have different colored eggs in a grid (though the shape of the grid changes from level to level). The grid represents the egg's stronghold, which the nasty chickens are coming to harangue. You arrange the eggs by matching up colors. Three or more colored eggs up against an edge of your stronghold can be hurled at the approaching chickens. You can get a whole lot of the eggs together and shoot them off to do more damage to the aggressive avians. (Wait...do chickens count as avians if they can't really fly?) The core mechanics are pretty neat and make for an addictive experience. Another two great games from Gamelab! Play em and love em! But play The Great Cow Race first!!