High School Detective is a cool point and click adventure game where you are a troublemaker sent by the principle to find out who poisoned the school’s star football player so he can’t play in the big game tonight. There are four main suspects, all of whom have reason to poison Rip. There’s Bunny, his girlfriend, who is mad that other girls all want him. There is the coach who has a chronic gambling problem and loses money because Rip refuses to throw games. There is Baxter St. Baxter who is the second string quarterback and wants Rip gone, and then there is the mascot, who actually likes Rip so you can throw him out of the suspect pool.

You will eventually beat this game if you just click on all the options. But there are a few main points you need to know. First go to the nurse’s office to talk to the nurse(who wants Rip badly). Try out all the dialogues until you run out of options, then go talk to Bunny and try all the dialogues. After that, go talk to Baxter St. Baxter and try the dialogues. He’ll deny it, but he’ll send you to coach. You have to get the key from coach’s drawer so use the lines that will distract him(the last one being the Lindsay Lohan is naked on the football field) so you can grab it. Use the key to open Baxter St. Baxter’s locker to discover the mascot mask and honey. Then talk to the mascot(get him off the hook first). After that, go to the security room and use all the dialogue to get the security guy to leave the office so you can watch the tapes, wherein its revealed that Bunny was the one who did it. After that, go to coach’s office and listen in. Use the dialogue to get everyone involved together and apprehend Bunny and you win. You should apprehend the wrong people also, just to see the different endings.

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Galaktoid — Cool game of pong with many powerups and changes.

This review is for the multiplayer strategy game Brotherhood of battle. Overall, this is an excellent multi-player strategy game well balanced in research, recruitment of units, and combat. The graphics were well-done and the gameplay was smooth with no notice-able game-play errors. However, there are some serious issues in the game that I do believe need to be addressed. The first glaring one is that there is no single player besides the tutorial and you have to play multi-player if you wish to play the game.

This makes it so you cannot truly get used to the feel of the game before going online against other players. This also means that there is no story-line to the game. Many strategy fans like myself play the games partially because we want to see how the story unravels. Not having one was a big letdown in this game. My other main complaint builds upon the first one in that once one player leaves, the game is over. It was particularly hard to actually play a full game. Most of the time, my screen displayed “victory” right after the game loaded because my opponent left. Now, as much as I enjoy winning, this got annoying after a while. There were also several games where the opponent just left after the first combat phase and the game ended in victory for me. What would take this game up another level is the inclusion of some kind of AI to take over if a human opponent leaves. This would allow people to actually finish a game every once in a while. I’ve tried to play over 10 games, not one of them was complete. This takes a lot away from the enjoyment of the a game. But besides those two serious nagging complaints, this is a great game that seemed to have gotten high ratings from just about everywhere. In the games where people actually stayed for a while, I found this to be a great combination of strategy and tactics.

If you are looking for strategy, I suggest that just keeping all your units grouped together with the big swordsman is front is about enough to beat most opponents as they won’t move in formation and will leave their weaker units exposed. Be sure to get the gold mine next to you and research so you can produce units. I haven’t played many full games, but the ones I did play, I was easily able to get an advantage just by keeping my units in basic formation with the big swordsman in front followed by the thief, archer, and mage behind.

However, if you want more advanced tutorials, I suggest you take a peek at the following videos:

Beginner’s guide:

Unit types:

Upgrades and research:

For more tutorials, you can go to the Official tutorials site