The Humble Indie Bundle #4 Extravaganza!

              

By Tim. S

Hey folks!

The latest Humble Indie Bundle is upon us! It’s a fantastically timed festive season special for seven great independent gaming titles at a price DETERMINED BY YOU*:

While a full review will be given upon completion of the titles, here are some preliminary impressions.

1. NightSky HD – A platform puzzler involving physics, gravity and some very weird ambient shadow art.
2. Shank – An action platformer harkening back to the likes of Final Fight and Metal Slug – blast, slash and chainsaw your way through this wild comic-book escapade.
3. Super Meat Boy – A reflex platformer; navigate though various hazards and test your mettle! Get REALLY good and record your speed runs for honor and gloating purposes.
4. BIT.TRIP RUNNER – Intriguing, Atari 2600-inspired platformer featuring chunky colours, chunkier pixels, interstellar settings and gameplay reminiscent of early Sonic the Hedgehog games. Play the rainbow!
5. Jamestown – Vertically scrolling shooter reminiscent of the early 90s arcade blastfest titles like Raiden. Things go boom. All the time.
6. Cave Story+ - Saving it ‘til last
7. Gratuitous Space Battles – Also saving it ‘til last

For those of you with a moral compass or a sense of social responsibility, the ‘Humble team actually let you choose WHERE your money goes; there’s a default split between the game developers, the American Red Cross or a tip for the distributors at ‘Humble HQ. This split is fully customisable and you can set it up any way you like.

Not only that, but every title is cross-platform compliant (across Windows/Mac/Linux systems), and boasts very lenient system requirements; so even those of you with ageing or underpowered systems should still be able to enjoy these festive goodies.

You can tell which ones have girlfriends, and which ones need girlfriends.

Over at Squarecrank we’re all excited; we’ve now got our hands on seven pieces of hot independent gaming! Between now and the new year, we’ll be reviewing each one individually and giving you our verdict on one of the most hotly anticipated seasonal gaming packs to grace our desktops in recent months.

So head on over to http://www.humblebundle.com/ and claim your gaming pack today!

*To unlock the last two titles, Cave Story+ and Gratuitous Space Battles, your chosen price must be over the average purchase price. At the time of writing (15/12/2011), this figure was at $5.37 USD (that’s for the WHOLE pack, not just a single game). You really have no excuses to NOT pick up all seven titles.