WARNING: i’m low on battery, so there are raw notes ahead, I’ll clean it up and make it intelligible later
Warren (the System Shock and Deus Ex guy) is talking about making great stories in games. He’s talking about the static worlds that are populated by static characters. Pacing is crap. Games get harder as [...]
Archive for the 'Games' Category
Warren Spector
12Mar07third week m-m-megapost!
08Dec06 Thus ends the third week of production for the February 2007 issue of Maximum PC. Since we publish 13 issues a year, that means we have to ship an issue every 4 weeks; the presses wait for no holidays, vacations, or trade shows.
Warning: This is a rambling, stupid-long, LiveJournal-esque, over-hypenated post. I apologize in [...]
Wii!
22Nov06I finally got to pick up my Wii yesterday, without having to camp out or wait in the cold. Gina managed to snag a pre-order, so we had a big time yesterday with Super Monkey Ball, Wii Sports, Zelda, and Trauma Center (I’ll save my thoughts about Red Steel until I’ve had time to [...]
Holy Crap - Gears of War Rocks
10Nov06 Last night I was pretty pissed to be stuck playing Marvel: Ultimate Alliance while everyone else on my friends list was enjoying Gears of War (Thanks Gamestop!). After spending a few too-short hours playing a little multiplayer and a little singleplayer, I understand what the fuss about this game was all about.
It’s taken me [...]
I’m working on my review of Guitar Hero 2 for Games Radar, which is really the type of work I don’t mind doing. I spent about 5 hours playing on Friday night–until my wrists and fingers couldn’t take anymore, and then played more on Saturday.
The short review is that it’s an improvement in virtually [...]
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
02Nov06So, despite my local Gamestop employees best efforts to keep me from playing the game (”No sir, all eight copies behind the counter are preordered by people who haven’t been able to pick up their copies in the last five days”), I’m about two hours into Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and while it isn’t going [...]
Guitar Hero is RAD
02Nov06Not that I really needed another example of Guitar Hero’s rad-ness.
Splinter Cell - WTF?
30Oct06I finished the new Splinter Cell game on my 360 this weekend, and while I really dig the new “Double Agent” gameplay, where you have sets of conflicting goals for each mission–both the NSA and the terrorist organization you’re infiltrating will tell you to do stuff, and you actually have to make tough choices. [...]
Pre-order the Wii? Probably not
13Oct06I got up a few hours early this morning to get a shot at a Wii preorder from my local Gamestop. By the time I arrived, roughy two hours prior to opening, there were about 40 people in line, for a store that said they had roughly 20 consoles coming. By the look of [...]
Franchise whoring ^2
22Sep06 Take two massive franchises and put them together, what do you get? One helluva fun franchise all it’s own. I loved the first Lego Star Wars game, and the second one is even better.
Sure, it’s really, really short. The graphics aren’t so hot. And, it’s a damn kids game, but I honestly had more [...]
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