I hear an echo in here . . .
Hello?
Helllloooooooooooooooo . . . .! Is anyone gaming? Oh well, if anyone cares I’m forging through DeusEx at the moment. I know, I know - what about Warcraft 3? I’m in the mood to shoot today - or should I say in the mood to napalm!
One of the great things in this game is the interactivity. I wasted a good 1/2 hour playing with the basketball and the pool table much to the annoyance of those around me.
Well, apparantly I wasn’t as close to being finished as I had thought. The last three levels of this one are some of the most inventive and challenging levels I’ve ever played. I think my calling it a “strategy game” was a bit deceiving as it’s more of a puzzle game - i.e. there’s really only one way to beat each level.
One thing that elevates this puzzle game over others are it’s action gaming elements. You have to dodge and kill various baddies from skeletons to knights to aliens. I had to defeat this guy (called “Tomator”) about 7 times in various ways with various characters. At the end of this particular battle after doing several tricky moves to unlock the platform at the bottom, I had to ride a geyser, grab on to the jewel with my bionic arm, swing over Tomator and drop a bomb on him at the precise moment that he was hovering over the electric barrier. It took about 5 tries and each time I needed a new bomb, I had to hit Tomator once with my arm to stun him and once with my lightsaber to get him to drop one. One of many unique and complex big boss fights.
But at last, I was victorious! I wish I understood what the ending meant, but oh well. I highly recommend Lost Vikings 2 to anyone who wants to game outside the FPS genre. The level design is amazing.
Bought PS2 last night. Stayed up until 4:30 in the morning playing it. Am at work now at 8:30. I hurt alot. Grand Theft Auto III - possibly funnest game ever. The missions are fun but I’m enjoying traversing the entire city and knocking over EVERY person I see. Madden 2003 - awesome. Mortal Combat (the new one) - AWESOME. My eyes hurt from all the color. Need sleep now. Nighty night.
Ah well, the laundry has broken my otherwise glorious run at finishing Lost Vikings 2 on top of finishing Ghost Recon today. I have only 2 more levels to go, so tomorrow it will eat my bomb. These levels are getting mighty hard and in terms of strategy and difficulty, this game blows Ghost Recon away. Then again, Blizzard are no slouches in this category, even back in the SNES days!
Ahh . . . finished before it even made my list. Well, we might as well add it and cross it out!
I wish I would’ve played this one at a harder level. Recruit was a little too easy. The AI got funky on occasion like when the enemy crawls up to the other side of the bush you’re hiding behind and sits there - not a good strategy. That said, I don’t really have the desire to play it again. Once you know where the enemy is, it’s not very difficult. Yeah, they’ll move around from time to time, but usually it’s predictable. It seemed like every mission there were two ways to approach each target; the front door and the not as obvious back door. Once you find the back door, you can usually shoot everyone in the back.
Another complaint is the quicksave. This made the game really easy also. Everytime I was about to make a move I’d quicksave. I actually never lost a single man because of this. Do they let you quicksave so often on the harder difficulties?
Anyhow, I’m off to finish Lost Vikings 2!
Sorry Will, you were batting for the wrong team.
It’s just not a good idea to start a game, play it for a few weeks, stop for about two years and attempt to pick it up again. This is what I’m trying to accomplish with Resident Evil (the originial for Playstation I - yes I know I’m a tool). I’ve been to every $1@?& room in this god forsaken game and I can’t get anywhere. Very frustrating. I’m going to buy Resident Evil 2 just so I can start anew on the same type of game. The moral of the story: When you start an adventure game - finish it. Finish it now. FINISH IT NOW.
I have no gaming news. None whatsoever. Why? It goes like this:
I get up in the morning at 6am. I go to the gym. I go to work. I come home, slam down a quick dinner, set up microphones/editing station. I work on music all night long. Maybe I look at my mail. I go to bed. I do it all over again. Truth be told, I knew if I didn’t finish a game by July I was going to be sunk. Man the lifeboats, my friends. I’m drowning in a sea of audio files. Pretty sounding audio files though…
I did it, I started Splinter Cell. A while back Jeff said, “Splinter Cell? Just do one mission a night and you will be all set.”
I did the only thing someone living in a 8-person house could do, I moved the Xbox to my room. I completed two missions in the confines of this little hole I call my room.
Mike was right when he told me at lunch today, “You’ll finish Hitman 2 tonight.” The last mission was an absolute slaughter which was an interesting change from all of the silent assassinating.
I found myself in the middle of Japan at the summer getaway of the crimelord Takeru Kobayashi. My good pal Diane at Agency left out the detail that the place would be crawling with freakin’ ninjas. Along the way, I was helped by my buxom friend Hooker McSlut who distracted the ninjas with jumping jacks. Needless to say, I killed the guy and paid the hooker for services rendered. Next I was off to a software company where my mission was to kill a fat computer programmer. What better way to do so than to pose as a member of the local fire department and hack the entire staff to pieces? Seriously when you get a popup that says “Take Fire Axe”, you know you’re in for a party. I tried the mission two ways: once as the fireman and once as the wily pizza delivery boy. As it turned out, fatso had a twin. He ate the bomb P. Diddy style in the hot tub.
Next stop: somewhere I don’t remember but everybody was wearing orange robes. My mission here was to meet up with agent Will Ferrell and then kill all Yankees fans in the area.
At the end, I was sent to a hospital where the mission was to get my swerve on with a nurse and perform crazy surgery on a cult leader.
Both of the Hitman games were a kick in the ass and a nice break from the standard FPS. I recommend to anyone needing a break from Quake. (rhyme)
I was just looking through my games list and realized that I never posted this, we beat Brute Force co-op a long time ago. This game was fun for having people around to play it with. By yourself its ‘okay’, but it you have some dudes around for a man-party, its bomb.
So Jeff - in the words of the great movie Major League with Tom Berenger - “Cross him off the list then!”
Then, it is. IT IS DAMMIT. So, I finally get my big screen TV this weekend and I thought I’d buy a new PS1 game to play on it. I bought NFL Gameday 2003 for 9.99 at Toys R Us. Yeah, I was at Toys R Us. I like giraffes. I have NFL Blitz from 1998 and its graphics are 50x better. I could not believe how crappy this game was. I can only describe the graphics this way. For those of you familiar with Photoshop, imagine taking an image and blowing it up 800% and then looking at it at 100%. I think the graphics for the original Artillery for the Commodore 64 had crisper graphics. Basically, what I’m doing is taking an impromptu poll. I’m leaning heavily towards PS2 thanks to Jeff’s recommendation but I’m concerned on how it will look on a big screen (in other words, is there one system that looks best on big screen TVs). So help me out, PS2, XBOX, GameCube, or ColecoVision.
Have a nice day.