You Have Dysentery – Organ Trail Complete Edition Review

<p>Nostalgia is huge in the gaming community right now&comma; and The Men Who Wear Many Hats have tapped into that with their recent release of <em>Organ Trail Complete Edition<&sol;em>&period; I was one of those fortunate youths who use to play <em>Oregon Trail<&sol;em> on their Apple IIe and I loved that game&period; I want to say I was tricked into reviewing this game&comma; but when I read the name on our review list I thought it was the classic version on PSVita&period; My editor broke it to me that it was a different game with a different title&semi; I still chose to review it and I am very pleased that I did&period; The game is an homage to the original <em>Oregon Trail<&sol;em> wherein you must drive your covered wagon across the United States&period; However&comma; instead of crossing the US to settle down&comma; you are crossing the US to escape zombies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The story isn&&num;8217&semi;t the same caliber as a Naughty Dog or Bioware game&comma; but it gets you hooked&period; You are trapped and surrounded by zombies and you run out of ammo shooting the zombies and a priest names Clements comes and saves your from a horrible fate&period; He asks you what happened to the rest of your party and you tell him that your three friends are in Washington D&period;C&period;&period; He tells you that you should join forces&comma; and you hop in a nearby station wagon and begin your trip&period; Once you get to D&period;C&period; you find your friends and are given time to figure out what you want to scavenge&period; This is where the difficulty comes into play&period; When you first start the game you are offered four types of difficulty&colon; Easy&comma; Normal&comma; Difficult&comma; and Suicide&period; These difficulties affect how many supplies you can first scavenge&comma; how far it is from landmark to landmark&comma; and how many events happen to you as you travel&period; I opted with normal and hopped into the station wagon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;93847" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-93847" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;04122242&sol;organ&lowbar;trail2&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"wp-image-93847 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;04122242&sol;organ&lowbar;trail2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Organ Trail" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"480" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-93847" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Organ Trail Complete Edition&comma; The Men Who Wear Many Hats&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The graphics are a great homage to the much older <em>Oregon Trail&semi;<&sol;em> It looks like you are playing an Atari game&comma; but I loved it&period; The look and feel of the original are captured on the Vita&&num;8217&semi;s screen and could bring a smile to the face of anyone who played <em>Oregon Trail<&sol;em>&period; Everything in the world is blocky and very pixilated&semi; It&&num;8217&semi;s not so bad that you can&&num;8217&semi;t tell that you&&num;8217&semi;re in a station wagon&comma; but it leaves much to be desired in the world of photo-realistic video games&period; This in no way detracted from the experience for me&comma; but it may for the newer gaming generation&period; The controls are quite simple as well&period; When you are scavenging for money&comma; food&comma; or car parts you have to shoot zombies or you won&&num;8217&semi;t gain as many supplies&period; Basically&comma; the longer you survive against the zombie hoards and grab items&comma; the more supplies you will gain&period; However&comma; the aiming system is difficult to master&comma; as it goes against everything a gamer knows&period; Instead of using the left stick to aim you must use the right stick to aim your gun&comma; pressing any button to fire&period; The stick is very sensitive&comma; and while you&&num;8217&semi;re trying to aim at the zombies you can miss shots which will cost you on your health bar once you get overwhelmed&period; The rest of the controls are very easy &&num;8212&semi; You just use the touchscreen to make selections that the game gives you&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The point of this game is to survive on the road&period; You&&num;8217&semi;ll watch your station wagon travel across the screen and as that happens&comma; certain events can happen&period; Sometimes a party member is injured or there is damage to your vehicle&comma; but you must persevere&period; While you drive you&&num;8217&semi;ll get to landmarks in the game&period; A city&comma; a house&comma; or even a convenient shopping mall&semi; There you can buy supplies&comma; sell supplies&comma; do some odd jobs for people&comma; and repair your car&period; Once you&&num;8217&semi;re done in town you can get back on the road again to continue your quest of survival&period;  At one point after I did my business in Philadelphia I ran into a herd of zombies&period; The game prompted me with three decisions&colon; Wait for the herd to leave&comma; plow through them in the station wagon&comma; or to sneak passed&period; I waited several times and when they didn&&num;8217&semi;t disperse&comma; I decided to run through them&period; Thankfully I succeeded&comma; and older fans of <em>Oregon Trail<&sol;em> will remember the tense struggle when you had to ford a river with your covered wagon &&num;8212&semi; This was very similar&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;93848" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-93848" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;04122231&sol;zomb&lowbar;015&period;png"><img class&equals;"wp-image-93848 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;10&sol;04122231&sol;zomb&lowbar;015&period;png" alt&equals;"Organ Trail" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"480" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-93848" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;Organ Trail Complete Edition&comma; The Men Who Wear Many Hats&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>I enjoyed <em>Organ Trail Complete Edition <&sol;em>very much&period; The only thing that really took me out of it was the shoddy shooting controls&semi; Had those been a bit tighter&comma; this game would have almost hit 100&percnt; on the nostalgia meter&period; It was aggravating not being able to hit the zombies&period; The bad controls should not scare you away from this game&comma; though&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a fun&comma; quirky little title that will wow older gamers and make some of the younger gamers think of playing <em>Oregon Trail<&sol;em>&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;re looking some something that isn&&num;8217&semi;t too difficult and will take you back to the early 80&&num;8217&semi;s&comma; then this is the game for you&period; If you want to see where adventure games started&comma; then by all means download this title and relive the days when Reagan was president&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><em><strong>A PSVita code for Organ Trail Complete Edition was provided by The Men Who Wear Many Hats for the purpose of this review<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;