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NOW PLAYING: TOMB RAIDER UNDERWORLD, CoD4: MW, 1943

I’ve never been a huge Tomb Raider fan but I did get through most of Tomb Raider Legend and enjoy it for the most part. Underworld was cheap so I picked it up and have been going through it rather languidly. That is to say. I’m playing it because I have nothing else to play and I’m not really compelled by it.

Don’t get me wrong, its very well made and I’ve found it quite polished but I’m not champing at the bit to play it like some other games I’ve been playing this year (Fallout 3, Infamous and Red Faction). I think I’m over exploration and constantly falling, not to my doom, but down to a lower level that requires a lengthy hike to get back to where I was. So I’m done with it already (it was a cheapie).

Here are some pics in lieu of me wasting any more time on Tomb Raider (click on the segment to see the full pic)

I’m waiting for Call of Juarez to show up and to see whether Wolfenstein is worth getting so I’m in a gaming-lite mode. I was ging through CoD4 SP again, this time on PC, but then the PC decided to lose my save game and I thought “fuck that.” I had a day off work this week so I popped in CoD2 (360) for a play of the SP campaign. Wasn’t feeling it but then I had played the single player manay times and the first half of the game has had a lot more playtime than the end of the game. Oh well.

So really Battlefield 1943 has been getting the most playtime though I’m starting to get a little frustrated. It seems 360 players locally are meant to be on local servers but this is not the case just yet and I find the one thing that dents my enthusiasm for online games is lag induced by a Host in another country. Last night the Japanese team were based in Japan. Awkward much? I must have been playing all seven 360 owners in Japan. And they were quite good.

Trials HD is likely to be purchased over the weekend. I’m working on a video ATM and Trials seems perfect to pop in and out of while I need to Render files.

We’re securing some more people to interview in our “The Developer” series in the coming weeks so stay tuned.