Smooth Operators puts you in charge of the call center. There are targets to hit but instead of having to call angry people at 7:45 in the evening when they’re trying to watch Coronation Street, you can just hire some poor sucker to do it for you. And then another, and another. And then a janitor to clean up all the mess they made. And then an IT guy to fix the computers they broke. And then another janitor to clean up after the IT guy. And it goes on and on, and in the end you’ll wish you were phoning angry people at 7:45 because it turns out balancing the books and making sure all the targets get hit is harder than it seemed.
After 7 long years it has finally happened. Fallout 4 has arrived! The crew jumps on it like radroaches on irradiated toast. Does it live up to the years of expectation? Is a post apocalyptic Boston a good setting? Can you shoot without using VATS!? Oh, and now everyone on the podcast has an Xbox One so they talk about that but… FALLOUT 4!!!
SteamFirst:Right up front, I will tell you: my day job, the one that many of you have advised that I should not to quit, is working at a call center. While working there, I have been both on the front lines taking the calls and in leadership positions. I would say that I have a pretty good handle on how they work. Thus, it was with tongue firmly planted in cheek that I pulled Andreas Heydeck’s Smooth Operators: Call Center Chaos out of our review backlog and said “I am going to review the crap out of this.”
John Bedford (Modojo): Five great games you can enjoy for less this Columbus Day.
