Yo I AM the manager!

After Chris’ visit, I was inspired to take a crack at Fallout 2. His description of Fallout 2 as ‘the definitive sequel’ was dead on. Everything that was wrong with the original Fallout was fixed and all the good parts were made even better.

Your character in this game is a descendant of the main character from the original Fallout. There’s more adventure through the radioactive deserts of post-nuclear-holocaust California and you can even get a car to make your weekend road trips easier. As with the first game, I financed and supplied my travels primarily by stealing from others which is always classy. I commend the developers at Black Isle studios for doing such a great job with the visuals and sounds of foes being cut down by automatic weapons.

The storyline of this sequel was every bit as good as the original. It starts out in a small village which was founded by your ancestor (the vault dweller) from the first game. The leader of the village approaches you to find a way to save the village from drought and starvation. Thus begins your quest for the G.E.C.K. (Garden of Eden Creation Kit). This is a device that was supplied to all the underground vaults to be used when radiation levels outside the vaults were safe. Just like the Genesis Project from Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, the G.E.C.K. terraforms the scorched earth to make it thrive for human population once again. Your quest for the “Holy GECK� takes you far and wide and the story unfolds along the way. You will find a raging struggle among factions for power over the desert, a town full of mutants who run a nuclear reactor and a casino town (New Reno) where you can do some gambling and whoring and that’s just a scratch on the surface. There are over a dozen different towns/locales to visit and just as many story lines which you wander into. Whether you choose to participate in the story lines or get involved with the towns is up to you. Personally, I can’t resist getting involved and when I do, it usually involves a couple hundred pounds of lead.

Hey good buddy. Want to shoot some hoops?

When it was over I wished for many more hours of game play. Luckily the Fallout games have great replay value with many different ways to approach missions and even more ways to develop your character. You can undoubtedly find this one in the bargain bin but it’s worth its weight in ham. I give it a 9 out of 10.

Since we haven’t had any game news in a while, I thought I’d throw down some screens from Doom 3. No idea how close to the end I am, but after many hours I’ve reached the Delta Complex so I think I’m near completion. Let’s face it, any zone denoted with a greek letter has got to have some serious shit going down there. Unless you have to go to an alien world afterwards. (Stupid Halflife…)

Anyways, these aren’t my best shots - maybe if I knew the who the site admin was I could convince him to change the maximum upload size to say, 150 kb or so. That would be great. If only I knew his name…

Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3 is the bomb!

Damn, lay off the nachos, Man Boobs.

Somebody needs a Tic Tac.

Great, not only am I dead, but a demon is rubbing his ass on my dead face.

Apologies go out to those of you who received spam from EMB comments over the past couple of days. Again it’s coming from the human filth over at texas-holdem-0.com. I’d love to provide you with names and addresses so you can print up labels for your explosives, but their domain registration was handled by proxy. Changes have been made to both the main site and games subsite so it should no longer be a problem. Play games.

Very Pleased Indeed

Chris was in town last weekend and wouldn’t you know it, we played some video games. It all started with getting him hooked on the legalized form of crack known as Fable on XBOX. From there we moved on to the PC to play some Far Cry. For a solid 15 minutes, Chris worked his ass off to be inducted into the Far Cry Sandbar Jumpers Club. We marked the occasion with a mug o’ the captain’s finest ale and some sea shanties in the key of F.

My mini quest this fall is to beat this score and shut out the green pants team. For lack of any subtle ideas , I’ll call them The Hutu Hackers. My team can be The Tootsie Rebels.

There you have it; Tootsie - 24, Hutu - 2. All complaints should be addressed to jeff@eatmybomb.com