Or you can hang a sword there, and slice your enemies instead! Or an axe! Or you can put a wooden mallet there and play a ball sport! Fighting an enemy in the slave pits? Cool. Moving your mouse in circles, you struggle with centrifugal force for the control of the giant hammer hanging beneath your helicopter. Like World Of Goo, this game stands upon the strength of its appealing physics engine, and play consists of teasing this engine out, elaborating upon its possibilities and feeling out its limits. If you can suffer that well enough, though, you’re golden. But there is a drawback: playing this game too much will give you severe tendonitis in your wrist. There is not a thing like it elsewhere in the universe. So, Omar Sharif.īut what about the crazy mouse-swirling combat? Well, it’s basically genius. This game is the square-jawed mythic hero-figure justice lovechild of Gamal Nasser and the Queen of England. What.īasically, what I’m saying is that this universe that Kranx Productions invented for its helicopter brawler is fantastic. Also animated smileys: If you fly in a taunting waggle while fighting, your helicopter will flash the other helicopters an animated yellow smiley face. But on the other hand, we’ve got player advancement linked up to ultra-western World-War-One-esque army medals and some rather Teutonic player title awards, as well as flying sandworms, steampunk, Greek architecture and Roman coins, and the absurd inclusion of retro pixel-fonts on every screen in the game. We’ve got the quasi-Arabic character names. We’ve got sabers and geometric patterns and other Arabic visual cues. Honestly, this game is such a hodgepodge of cultural signs that it actually escapes them and becomes own thing entirely. Out of this tension it creates a kind of weird, syncretic perfection never before seen on the face of planet Earth. Look at the man. Like Omar Sharif, a man of Franco-Libyan heritage who could play both Doctor Zhivago and Sherif Ali, the game seems to straddle an East-West stylistic divide. Its setting draws equally from Dune, Ben Hur, Lawrence of Arabia, and the blisteringly insane imagination of its developers, who are a pack of clever Russians. See, Hammerfight is a game about dueling steampunk helicopter gladiators. Yeah, Charleton Heston is plenty manly, but the game’s unusual style points me toward a different super-manly actor with a different cultural background and filmography.

But I’ve come to disagree with his choice of actors. Derek Yu wrote about the game’s manliness, and it was his assessment of the game-“like Charleton Heston in the Ten Commandments,” he said-that convinced me I had to own it. Like Sharif, Hammerfight is outrageously manly. Offical challenger for Boesel is former champ Igor Michalkin.Or the game Omar Sharif would play. The will go ahead in April on a SES promotion with exact date and site to be announced. Dina Thorslund headlines in a defence of the female WBO super bantamweight title against Alesia Graf.ĮBU light heavyweight champ Dominic Boesel will take on Italian Orial Kolaj in a voluntary defence of the title. German heavyweight Albon Pervizay, 11-0, has been added to Team Sauerland´s show in Struer, Denmark. In the main event of this Sauerland Event promotion super middle Vincent Feigenbutz takes on Przemyslaw Opalach, also with the GBU title at stake. Super welterweights Ahmad Ali, 13-0-1, and Denis Krieger, 14-7-2, clash for the GBU title on January 26 in Rheinstetten. Stachewicz takes over from Torsten Schmitz. In the pros he´s worked with Manfred Wolke - at that time head coach for the likes of Henry Maske and Axel Schulz. Stachewicz is not a well known name in professional boxing but has been in the game for a long and have his background in the former East Germany. Michael Stachewicz has taken over as trainer for WBO and IBF # 2 middleweight Jack Culcay reports AGON Sports in a press release. Wallisch, an eternal prospect with a career derailed by injuries,contractual disputes and problems with the law, was in trouble against Hammer time already in the third and it got worse in the fourth and fifth.

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