John Woo Presents Stranglehold
Portal
Test Drive: Unlimited ( ALL Gold in the SP challenges.)
Loco Roco*
The Darkness (Easy)
I read the Eurogamer.Net review today and it pretty much sums up exactly what's right and wrong with this game. To sum up there's far more right so if you fancy a great adventure go buy it. It's a solid game. There's a couple of pacing issues, The creeping dark tentacles I mention in the 'CP' update don't work quite as smoothly as they could but are still great great fun and as Eurogamer point out theres some scenes towards the end where you're powers are utilised to awesome effect but you're not in control. Other than that I have no complaints. I may well have another play through on a harder difficulty and try and hoover up some of the missed achievement points (295 points first time through). I really enjoyed it.
*Not a first time completion.
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Monday, 25 February 2008
Purchase Power
Today is payday. Thus a little splurge at HMV.
I bought Band of Brothers on DVD. Little Joe has been banging on about it for ages but for me the tipping point was finding out that Dexter Fletcher from my favourite childhood TV show Press Gang was in it.
I also got the new Goldfrapp album and in yet another attempt to enjoy an RPG game (see also Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy VII and Skies of Arcadia)I purchased Final Fantasy II for PSP at £18.
I'm very tempted to buy another DS as well.. My old one was one of the chunky originals and of course the Slim ones are a lot nicer. My colleauge in the office has one now and we could play Mario Kart together...
I bought Band of Brothers on DVD. Little Joe has been banging on about it for ages but for me the tipping point was finding out that Dexter Fletcher from my favourite childhood TV show Press Gang was in it.
I also got the new Goldfrapp album and in yet another attempt to enjoy an RPG game (see also Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy VII and Skies of Arcadia)I purchased Final Fantasy II for PSP at £18.
I'm very tempted to buy another DS as well.. My old one was one of the chunky originals and of course the Slim ones are a lot nicer. My colleauge in the office has one now and we could play Mario Kart together...
To Bald-ly Go!
Apologies for the terrible pun. The internet is alive today with the news of Phil Harrison leaving Sony. I've not much to add other than with PS3 seemingly on the cusp of great things it seems a strange time to go.
Currently Playing: The Darkness
I should probably start by saying that I have no experience of the comic on which this game is based. It doesn't seem to matter all that much as the game introduces the set up and story very well as the game progresses. It does this in two ways. Through the hero of the game, Jackie, talking to an unseen character during loading screens and through conversations with characters as the game goes along.
Jackie is a mafia hitman who, as the game unfolds, becomes possessed by a mysterious power called The Darkness which manifests itself through powers Jackie is able to use and a strange creepy voice that communicates with Jackie himself. The powers are unlocked as you progress collecting enemies hearts as you go. Jackie can use, what I assume are sort of specteral tenticals, that sprout from him when you invoke The Darkness to over come puzzles that stop him from progressing as well as for scouting out the terrain and dealing with enemies. He is also able to call forth darklings. Small beings that he can direct and each with a specilized ability (Their are four to collect).
It's basically a story based shooter however there's less emphasis on shooting and quite a bit on exploring and progressing the story. It's linear in so much as you're assigned tasks (for instance finding your girlfriends flat) but the world you're in is reasonably open and you don't feel like you're progressing down one long corridor to you're goal.
Appropriatly enough the game is rather dark all round. Both in visuals and atmosphere. Your darkness powers gradually fade in the light too so a lot of time is spent in making the enviroment even darker. This occasionally makes finding out what you're supposed to be doing quite tricky although the game does have a lot of hints and clues in it's 'journal' along with a list of your abilities and powers and how to use them. So while a lot is introduced in a relatively short time it's fairly easy to keep track of it all and I made reasonable progress yesterday completing the first section of the game. That's when things started to get really strange....
Jackie is a mafia hitman who, as the game unfolds, becomes possessed by a mysterious power called The Darkness which manifests itself through powers Jackie is able to use and a strange creepy voice that communicates with Jackie himself. The powers are unlocked as you progress collecting enemies hearts as you go. Jackie can use, what I assume are sort of specteral tenticals, that sprout from him when you invoke The Darkness to over come puzzles that stop him from progressing as well as for scouting out the terrain and dealing with enemies. He is also able to call forth darklings. Small beings that he can direct and each with a specilized ability (Their are four to collect).
It's basically a story based shooter however there's less emphasis on shooting and quite a bit on exploring and progressing the story. It's linear in so much as you're assigned tasks (for instance finding your girlfriends flat) but the world you're in is reasonably open and you don't feel like you're progressing down one long corridor to you're goal.
Appropriatly enough the game is rather dark all round. Both in visuals and atmosphere. Your darkness powers gradually fade in the light too so a lot of time is spent in making the enviroment even darker. This occasionally makes finding out what you're supposed to be doing quite tricky although the game does have a lot of hints and clues in it's 'journal' along with a list of your abilities and powers and how to use them. So while a lot is introduced in a relatively short time it's fairly easy to keep track of it all and I made reasonable progress yesterday completing the first section of the game. That's when things started to get really strange....
Saturday, 23 February 2008
Purchase Power
I picked up The Darkness for twenty notes today. I haven't played a good FPS adventure for a while and it was either Clive Barkers Jericho which was also in Game for £20. Both where games that where on my radar pre-release but neither seemed to realise their full potential for a purchase on release. Having checked out Eurogamer The Darkness scored higher and seemed to offer less frustration.
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Blast from the past!
Apparently Commodore have inked a deal with Nintendo to release Commodore 64 classics on the Virtual Console. Now I remember the 8 bit era fondly and the C64 was a king amongst men at the time... But seriously does anyone expect 500 Wii points of entertainment from any C64 title at all?
If you're going to release old computer classics at least make 'em from the Amiga.. Stunt Car Racer! Now there's a game that'd be worth 500 points
If you're going to release old computer classics at least make 'em from the Amiga.. Stunt Car Racer! Now there's a game that'd be worth 500 points
The "Complete" List
John Woo Presents Stranglehold
Portal
Test Drive: Unlimited ( ALL Gold in the SP challenges.)
Loco Roco*
*Not a first time completion.
This time around I got 71 more Loco Roco than last time and 17 more Mui. Although I totally bombed World 4 getting 11 less Loco Roco and 3 less Mui. It's a great great game. The completion took a couple of hours more but it's worth it to find all the hidden stuff.
Portal
Test Drive: Unlimited ( ALL Gold in the SP challenges.)
Loco Roco*
*Not a first time completion.
This time around I got 71 more Loco Roco than last time and 17 more Mui. Although I totally bombed World 4 getting 11 less Loco Roco and 3 less Mui. It's a great great game. The completion took a couple of hours more but it's worth it to find all the hidden stuff.
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