Now Playing: a Bit of Everything…
So a few choice bits from some recent gaming.
A few weeks back, Mrs Controller1 wanted to play Flower so we bought it off PSN and 2 hours later we played it. I don’t have the remotest idea what it is you do with this six-axis controlled relax-o-tron. You wave the controller around in the same way people move controllers in TV advertisements and things light up. It’s a game in a way that games normally aren’t. My wife, who never plays games, played this for three hours straight. Three hours.
Perfect Dark, back in the last days of the N64 as a viable system was a great game hamstrung by ambition on a system that couldn’t handle Rare’s last great game. 10 years later, it’s been ported to the 360 and the results are positive. It’s a relic of a bygone age but still fun to play despite the advances of the intervening years.
Boom Blox Bash Party is the sequel to a game no one played which was a pity since BB was quite a fun diversion. BBBP builds on the original and I, with two friends, spent a good few hours playing this recently. Alls I can say is, the puck levels suck, but the rest was a great way to pass time and grief people at the same time. You can smack talk in any game these days. I remember played Tetris once and getting called a n00b for using the long block. Tetraminos, bitch!
Of course, I am looooving Bad Company 2 despite it’s server issues. DICE have a game that offers the intensity of old Battlefield games, and trumps Call of Duty and is a hell of a lot of fun to boot. You can play as an infantryman and not have your game ruined by guys camping for choppers and tanks. Snipers are the bane at the moment. In a game where objectives are the order of the day, having snipers just sit back and pick off the enemy doesn’t mean victory. for the sniper’s team. EA have been slowly patching the game to improve it but by slowly, I mean 1000 times faster than Infinity Ward and Activision. There’s a single player mode in there at some point but, pffft.
I picked up some cheap games on Steam and Just Cause (the original was one of them). The sequel’s been getting some good pre-release buzz so I though the price was right. I guess my original dismissal of the 360 demo a few years back was correct. It is shash. Best avoided like a DoA Cosplay event at a Weight Watchers event.
Batman: Arkham Asylum was also purchased and installed and apart form the cool intro, I haven’t played it much. It looks so cool but I am seriously regretting not getting a console version. It’s just not the sort of game I like playing on a PC. This is one seriously well put together game. I just need to get around to playing it.
Next up; Bioshock 2 and maybe, just maybe, God of War III.
