During the loading screen, it mimicked some interesting things that reminded me of how The Sims caught the internet’s attention with the messages it displayed during loading.Īs soon as I was dropped into the world, I was brought right back to my WoW days. You know - at this point, that curveball wasn’t as surprising. From choosing a “class” of goat to play as such as the usual Rogue (who likes makeup), Hunter (who can catch fish) and the overpowered Microwave class. Everything from launching the game showed that there’d been considerable time and effort spent ensuring that the piss was taken in the most suitable way. The real meat of the expansion though was the game’s unabashed take on the MMO genre. There’s something to be said for a goat strapping itself up with a weapon made from a funnel, some rubber hose and a gumball machine, but I’d be kidding if I didn’t think it wasn’t a completely surreal alternative to the zombie shooters we’ve received over the last few years.
You now have to defend yourself from a zombie apocalypse using headbutts and crafted weapons. Jumping into the zombie mode, I followed the tutorial through to experience what was different. Moving on, I launched the Mmore Goatz expansion, to find out just how crazy that would be. Especially given that you could be flung off in any random direction without much warning. There’s only two levels, but they’re of a decent enough size to fit plenty of fun stuff in without you getting lost along the way. There’s a lot of crazy stuff you can achieve as a goat, and there are some ‘missions’ that feel more like a guide to the things you can do than having any bearing within the game. The absolute bat-shit insanity that followed cannot be described with words alone, it has to be experienced to do it justice.Īnd well, that’s pretty much it as far as gameplay is concerned for the standard game. At one point, I'd gone up an elevator to a roller coaster, hopped into a cart and licked it to 'hold on'. That's only the beginning of just how absurd Missing Profile gets. For example, you can lick things, which will score you points. The main game has you scoring points by causing chaos in the most ridiculous ways possible. Goat Simulator: The Bundle gives you the main game along with the Mmore Goatz expansion that adds in being a goat in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, or pretending that you're on an epic adventure in an MMO style setting, which subsequently ups this title's parody options to three wildly different genres. But here I am, hours later, still playing and laughing at the sheer absurdity of the events that are unfolding. Goat Simulator is one of those titles that I'd looked at and thought "It'll only be fun for five minutes before the novelty wears off".
An update to the game in May will offer split-screen multiplayer, a new map, and more.// Reviews // 19th Mar 2016 - 6 years ago // By Steven John Dawson Goat Simulator: The Bundle Review The game has various bugs and glitches, but that's part of the fun. "'Goat Simulator' is like an old school skating game, except instead of being a skater, you're a goat, and instead of doing tricks, you wreck stuff," according to the description underneath the game's trailer. You can hop and flip in different directions, and you can also lick objects, which make them stick to your tongue until you drop them. There are different achievements in the game, ranging from jumping high enough to lick a hang glider, to knocking over all the stones in Goathenge. Gameplay is fairly simple: you run around and get points by head-butting things to destroy them. As with all amazing things on the Internet, there was so much interest in the video, that developer Coffee Stain Studios released it as an actual, playable game.
Back in February, a YouTube video for the game - initially just a joke prototype - racked up more than 2 million views.