Sunday, January 20, 2008
Gaming, gaming and more gaming.Call Of Duty 4 on PS3 was quite beautiful, and certain sections were fantastic to play, which makes the game sound like a very worthwhile buy, but.....
I completed it in one sitting!!!
This is *not* the way forward.
Crysis on PC is an equally wonderful game to watch, and to play, right up to the point when people start shooting, whereupon my pc slows to a crawl, or stops altogether.
Now I know the game requires a seriously kickarse pc to play it on maximum settings... and we're talking several thousand pounds worth of kit here. Seriously though, you'd have to be mad to lay out that much cash on a machine to play a game that really doesn't look any better than the PS3 will be doing in a year from now.
More than that, when a machine like mine (Pentium 4 3.2Ghz, 2 Gigs ram, Nvidia 79000 gfx card) can barely hold a decent framerate on the absolute minimum settings, you know all is not right in the world of realistic hardware expectations.
Back down to earth... well... kinda. Actually... not really at all, but anyway...
Geometry Wars: Galaxies on Nintendo DS is a truly wonderful piece of retro blasting.
Playing like a cross between Asteroids and Robotron, with a hint of Tempest in the visual styling.
You can play with the stylus, but I don't bother, preferring to stick to the buttons. I haven't tried the 2 player mode yet, though I'm sure it'll prove to be a laugh.
If you have a DS and are looking for some frantic, pick up and play, old school shooting, get this.
Going back to around Christmas... Mario Galaxy.... beautiful game, and quite enchanting to watch, but for some reason, I don't like playing it myself. I guess I never was a Mario fan. Certainly one of, if not *the* most immaginitive game I've ever seen though.
Ratchet and Clack.... I know, I know, everyone loves this game, but it just annoys the crap out of me. I've played it about twice, and doubt very much I'll bother playing it again.
Maybe it's finding myself in places where I just don't know what I'm supposd to be doing. Maybe it's the awkward aiming system. Maybe it's the fact that it's *so* pretty that I expect perfection, and so feel let down that it isn't. Whatever the case... I don't care to play games that leave me feeling annoyed.
Fave game of the moment?
Hah!
*STILL* Warhawk.
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Steve 4:34 AM [+]
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