Hogs of War is its own thing, partly because it’s got so much real-time strategy in it, conceptually speaking, and partly also because, for such a light-hearted game, it’s actually quite dark and cynical. Hogs of War was its own breed of madness, perhaps not a world, but at least a county, apart from its most obvious influence - Worms, the best-selling artillery franchise by Team 17, where cute, anthropomorphised phyla blow each other to bits with zany weapons and snappy one-liners. To call it Worms in 3D would be overly simplistic, and maybe even flat-out wrong.
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Hogs of War is available for Playstation 3/Vita/PSP via PSN, and its PC port (slightly better graphics but solo campaign AI is broken and lots of glitches) is on GOG. Hear the story of how it evolved from a concept of "Command and Conquer with pigs", what made it such a well-designed satire, and how this underrated PlayStation game saw the funny side of serious global conflict.Īll music and sound effects in this episode were composed and performed by me, except for the bits that I lifted out of Hogs of War.
Far from a mere "Worms in 3D", Hogs of War was its own breed of madness.
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