Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
The past couple of weeks was mostly spent playing single-player games. Beaten Heavenly Sword, Gears of War (for the PC), Call of Duty 4 (sp campaign) and just this weekend, Assassin’s Creed.
The lastest game, Assassin’s Creed, was very fun. Having to fish for information about the target and planning the method of attack was enjoyable. While dodging the vengeance of the guards after the kill is challenging and makes you think on your feet as you look for a place to hide, it does get irritating at times. But this irritation is only when traversing the streets. Being able to scale buildings and travel along the rooftops makes the getaway much easier… just don’t make a misstep and fall.
Some people criticizes the deliverance of certain threads of the storyline and I agree with them. Those bits could have been condensed and saved for a good climactic ending instead of stitched between the action resulting in too many breaks in the pace and a pretty poor ending.
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I’m sorta looking forward to the movie Hitman, which is based off of the video game series of the same title. In my opinion the storyline of the series isn’t complex and the only really great feature of the game was the freedom of operation for each mission, so Holywood can’t screw this up, right?
Then again, the whole premise of Doom was that a rift to Hell was opened (very straightforward, no twist no turns), whereas in the movie, it was changed to genetic mutation. Very disappointing, especially since I’ve gone through the Doom remake, which provided a better cinematic atmosphere. Out of the two Resident Evil movies I’ve seen (I didn’t see the third, Extinction, yet), only the second one (Apocalypse) was entertaining and that’s only because they had Jill Valentine in it. The first Resident Evil movie could’ve been so much more. It could’ve been a great horror/thriller movie sprinkled with some gun fighting action.
The failures of the recent video game to movie adaptations have me feeling a little discouraged with Hitman, but the trailer (always the trailer!) has sparked my interest.
Of course, there’ve been a few adaptations that were successful. Like Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Tomb Raider and Silent Hill.
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions is launching tomorrow. I’ve got it pre-ordered so that’s no problem. The trick would be to acquire the movies, Transformers and 28 Weeks Later. Actually, just Transformers. I don’t think it’d be too hard to get the other movie.
Circuit City is always the best place to get new movie releases, but do I take up lunch hour and scramble to Pearlridge, or do I wait and go through traffic and thus take up time I could be spent driving to Gamestop to pick up my FFT?
I must come up with a solid battle plan.
Speaking of battle plans, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is out and has gotten good reviews. I’m assuming it’s like Battlefield and pretty much completely online with no single-player story to burn through.
Hey little sister, I heard you went to mister so and so… knock knock knocking on his door again…
I can’t get that song out of my head. It’s all BioShock’s fault.
But it’s oh so good.
It’s always amusing to see what I remember and what I don’t. Well, the stuff I don’t remember I can’t really amuse myself with… or something. But anyway! I remember exactly the two video games that got me hooked on role-playing games; they were Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior (aka Dragon Quest).
Were it not for these two titles, I don’t think I would’ve been into role-playing games or even bothered to pick up a fantasy book (Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey was the first by the way).
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