Humor - not everyone has it, but when they do, they can achieve something more easily than others could. Forbes reports that it helps put others at ease, destresses people, and makes people more approachable.
This trait is something many games prominently feature, such as The Secret of Monkey Island, Saints Row III and IV, and South Park: Stick of Truth, per The Guardian.
Another game that also has humor is Hogs of War, a game many fondly remember to this day despite its low popularity.
Hogs of War History, Gameplay
Hogs of War is a turn-based tactics video game developed by Infogrames Sheffield House and published by Infogrames for the PlayStation and Microsoft Windows in 2000, per Metacritic.
The game plays much like Worms and XCOM, wherein players command a bunch of pigs dressed in World War 2 gear and lead them in battle. Players take turns commanding their pigs to move around the map or attack enemy pigs in range of their weapons, per Gaming Bible.
Hogs of War feature a single-player campaign and online multiplayer with a single mode: deathmatch, per Gamespot. The former provides players with 25 missions that gradually increase in difficulty until their completion.
Players can earn promotion points to improve their troops and acquire more damaging weapons. According to IGN, players can actually aim enemy hogs by holding down the aim key.
However, holding it down for too long will make the crosshair jerk around too much. Meanwhile, grenades, bazookas, mortars, and other explosives use a power bar to determine the distance of their shot.
Meanwhile, the game's multiplayer mode plays like the single-player campaign, only instead of going up against the computer, players go up against their friends or other players in a four-player free-for-all.
Regardless of the mode, once a hog's life is spent, it will soon explode and take anyone and anything around it in a fiery explosion.
Although the gameplay and graphics are nothing to write home about and are bad to the point that the game is played only for its multiplayer mode (more on that later), it has a sense of humor that can keep up with most games of its time.
Critical Reception And Reincarnation Into Other Platforms
Unfortunately, the game's single-player campaign is all but non-existent, and many critics wished it was. Gamespot and IGN gave bad ratings for the game's single-player campaign due to its boring, unstimulating game. However, they, and the game's many players, found its multiplayer mode enjoyable, with players rating it an 8.5/10 based on 72 ratings on Metacritic.
The game is available on Steam, but surprisingly, it is also available in the form of a miniature game called Hogs of War: The Miniatures Game, turning the video into a tabletop game in the process.
This game is more successful than its source material, though, According to Dice Breaker. Its Kickstarter page reveals that 1,223 backers chose to crowdfund the game with £112,121.
Meanwhile, the game's lead programmer, Andrew Fox, is excited to have the game on the Nintendo Switch if it ever gets a remaster.
