About the game

Written by TurkeySaladBoy

Order a cocktail – shaken, not stirred – toss your morality out of the window and prepare to be induced into the mindset of a secret agent through Big Daddy’s Chick’s espionage-themed role-playing game on Facebook, Coldwar: Clambake. Tuxedo hire not included.

It is somewhat apt that your foray into the clandestine world of spies begins with a game of Daddy-or-Chips, in that you are asked to look into your heart and choose your alliance. The options are as polarised as right or wrong. In one corner are the Spymasters, Martin and Dick, bound to the network of F.R.O.S.T. (David Jason does not feature) where the ringleader, Ms Butterpat, calls the shots. In the other corner, a heinous motley-crew of Masterminds hell bent on disrupting the natural world order. Once you have decided on how you want your bread buttered, its time to create a character using the customization tool. You can have some eye-watering fun mixing the abstract pre-formatted heads and bodies; imagine playing around with Mr Potato head after a bottle of Absinthe. Facial hair is optional, but every spy needs a moustache to conceal their identity. Oh, and you also need to set up an alias, or codename, which is how you will be referred to throughout the game.

Coldwar: Clambake is a role-playing game where the traditional gameplay mechanic of engaging in missions to level up and earn experience points apply. The statistics are displayed in the top right of the game menu. At first glance you would be forgiven for being daunted by the menu, with its unfamiliar options and the complexity of the statistics. Thankfully there is a helpful tutorial, which slips onto your arm like a soliciting double-agent and leads you gently through those tentative first steps.
The tutorial box, while being prominent in the top left, can prove a nuisance since it covers up incoming messages and status updates as per the new Facebook layout. However, this is an ergonomic point that the design team can easily correct.


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