By Vermouth , 31st August 10:02 pm
BioShock is joy. From the moment I got BioShock, I was either playing the game, eating, sleeping or waiting to get back to playing it. The game is somewhat difficult to classify as it straddles the line between three genres. The guys at 2K Games would insist that it is a first person shooter for marketing purposes, but it’s also drawing on elements of role-playing and survival horror. The story, so often the bad news with respect to a shooter, is fantastic. Furthermore this game is presented in the most amazing way any next-gen game has yet presented itself. The gameplay has been a wonderfully emergent playground that allows you to mix genetic magic, conventional weapons and a weaponized environment in wonderful ways.
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By Head881 , 24th August 6:20 pm
I recently received Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin for my birthday a few days past, from a close friend of mine.
I’m not going to play it. Well… I’m not going to play it yet. Instead, I’m going to wait until the middle of the Fall season to start playing it. I’ll start playing Castlevania when the leaves begin to change from green to orange, amber, and crimson. I’m going to wait to play Castlevania until the days hours become further encroached by night’s grip. I’ll play Castlevania when the last of the year’s warm days are laced with winter’s cool winds.
A cursory glance at Wikipedia reveals that there has been a Castlevania game released almost annually for at least one of the available consoles or handhelds for the last twenty years. While I haven’t looked at every release to date, at least the last several have been released sometime in the Fall, near or on Halloween.
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By Vermouth , 19th August 7:01 pm
I recently made the move from Windows XP to Vista. I know, I know what you’re thinking - why? Well, truth be told, I was buying a new PC. It was primarily for gaming, but it just did not make any sense to buy a machine with XP on it, only to face the possibility that at some point in the future I will want a game that is for Vista only. It’s true that DX10 is Vista only, but because of budget considerations and poor midrange DX10 cards options, that didn’t really factor into my decision. All that being said the experience with Vista has had it’s ups and downs much like any OS. Vista was launched a bit before its time with plenty of annoying bugs and compatibility issues that needed to be ironed out. While there have been many updates, the system is still sorely in need of a service pack before this OS will be something I could whole-heartedly recommend. If you’re buying a new machine this still makes sense but if you’ve got a working XP box there is no real reason to rush out to upgrade your machine.
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By Cyrris , 11th August 8:20 pm
As I have stated before, I have been a big Civ fan, but the release of Civilization IV was marred by bugs which really stopped the game from being all it could be. Fast forward 18 months, and this game has now seen extensive patching and two expansion packs. If you had asked me a week ago what my opinion of Civilization 4 and it’s Warlords expansion pack was, I would not have been able to say a bad thing about it. The original game is fantastic, and the expansion only built on it in positive ways. Warlords effectively raised the bar in the Civ4 experience, but didn’t really change enough for me to be bothered making a review.
Beyond the Sword, however, has not just raised the bar. It has put the bar on a rocket and launched the damn thing in to orbit.
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