Category — games

So I decided to play Crysis:

Well the graphics were something else, and especially with my new computer, it was running very smooth on high settings! You really have to check this game out to believe it.

It was a pretty standard first person shooter with a few twists and shitty ending, but we can get to that!

The key twist to the game was your cryo suit which had the ability to enhance certain aspects such as strength, speed, armor. These things can be switched on the fly and lead to many different fighting techniques. Although I found myself doing the pretty standard fighting style even with these other options available.

In the trailer videos they always show people killing the soldiers in the most random ways, which is just never what I do, maybe I am boring.

The game started going in a very different direction about half way through and ***Spoiler*** out of know where we were dealing with some alien species. Now I am cool with aliens, but they went a bit far with the whole alien base towards the end, which I just did not enjoy.

And then the ending…its like they took a page right out of hollywood, leaving it as a clear sequel, although leaving the most interesting part for the next game, actually destroying the alien base. I mean who wouldn’t want to blow that annoying thing up?

All together it was fun, a bit short, but fun. I will definitely check out the next one, so I can kill those damn aliens!

So a week or so ago, the amazing app known as Steam(I can get into that later), was selling the game Prey for 5 bucks!

Well I had just gotten my new graphics card, and the game had decent looking graphics, so I decided to go for it.

Click for the Prey goodness

Its ok, definitly not worth the full 50 bucks or so that i am sure it was first tagged at. Specifically it feels like an unreal/doom esque game that the developers took some time(about 2 hours) trying to figuring out a gimmick.

Let me take this moment to explain myself a bit more, WTF is with gimmicks. I mean if you need a gimmick, then you are not making a good game. But I guess I get ahead of myself because in every industry there are going to be varying levels of quality, depth, etc. But seriously, gimmicks are driving me crazy right now, and don’t even get me started on the Nintendo Wii.

Well basically the gimmick they came up with is too throw in Native American culture. I mean don’t get me wrong, I am sure there are many interesting ways to do this. But this game just feels wrong. I mean switching into Native American Spirit mode to shoot your spirit bow at dead childrens souls that are fighting you on a Doom Alien ship that is gutting all the humans that it sucks up with their alien rays along with cars, hello kitty dolls and small local pubs. Is that missplaced or what??

Although now that I think about it…

Maybe it could be worse…