There aren’t many giant monster pseudo-simulators out there, or at least, any that are popular. There was a Godzilla game that came out earlier this year which arrived with little-or-no fanfare and some dismal sales numbers to match. The ‘King of Monsters’ never got the game that would truly do him justice. Thankfully, there is still Omegalodon from 2012. It was an unusual game which required soldiers and civilians alike to defend their city from this “Sharkzilla” type monster and kill him before he could destroy the city’s nuclear power plant which is in itself a subtle homage to the 1954 Godzilla movie, which was a cautionary tale about the misuse of nuclear power.

As it stands, Omegalodon has approximately eight players as of this morning. Because I couldn’t join either of the two servers that were playing the game as I was getting an error stating I had to join a server running the current version 1.6, I could only presume that those servers are running pirated versions of Omegalodon. Unless Desura allows you to roll back game patches, and run them from that previous version. Around the time, it came out on Steam, and maybe when it was still on Desura, it was booming thanks to YouTubers covering the game and giving it plenty of attention. The first video I saw of the game was NerdCubed’s gameplay of it which made me excited for the game because when I would finally get a PC, this would be on the top of my “to play” list. It looked like such fun to play.

Back when the game was popular, you’d have moments like these.

The vehicles handled in such an odd way as they would be flung around the map, crashing into vehicles, buildings and other players which would result in brilliant and catastrophic moments where you’d see everything explode. Even if you were on the losing team, it was still hilarious to try and control the plane in such a way that would actually mean that you would survive long enough to bomb the eponymous fish monster. However, you’d end up bombing another player and then crashing into a skyscraper. For me, £6.99 seemed like damn good value for such a game.

So what happened to Omegalodon? One of the first big problems with the game is that it hasn’t been updated in nearly three years. I tried to find out why and when I looked on the Steam discussion boards for the game, the developer commented on one of its own posts “The game is complete. I will still fix bugs if you report them.” I only wish there wasn’t just one game mode because having so little to do in a game with as much potential as Omegalodon is a shameful waste. You could have a fish monster deathmatch game mode or a game mode where you have a fish monster on either team and the objective is to destroy the enemy’s base, with humans supporting the fish monsters. If we get the word out about this game, we can increase the player base again and hopefully get North of Earth to update the game or maybe even give us a sequel.

Omegalodon is available for only £6.99 on Steam, the link for the game will be provided below!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/248350/