Left 4 Dead demo Thursday!

For those who have pre-ordered, Left 4 Dead's demo will be available a week before anyone else. This MIGHT be able to pull me away from Fallout 3 for a night.

Maybe.

- V

Star Wars fans! Watch NOW!

I had to steal this from Jeff Green's blog.

This guy rocks.

-Van

Fallout 3

All free time is now given to Fallout 3.

11 hours into the game and I feel as if I've only scratched the surface.

That's it.

Van out.

Fallout 3, believe the hype.

I started playing Clive Barker's Undying on Saturday morning. Alone in the Dark didn't work out, and I was itching for a scary game. My first impressions of the game are good. The graphics are obviously dated and the controls are a bit different, but the game's story is intriguing and has already provided me some scary moments.

Fallout 3 wasn't scheduled to come until Nov 6th per Amazon's website. I planned to have Undying finished in time to dive right into post-apocalyptic mayhem. So much for plans, Fallout 3 Collector's Edition showed up on my door step Saturday afternoon. I tried to resist, but not really hard...Undying will just have to wait. So, will Resident Evil. Oh, and Advance Wars too. I thought, "Oh, I'll just install it and check out the introduction. Make sure it works well on my system and finish up the games I already started first. Yeah, right.

Fallout 3 has it's talons in me, and I don't want it to let go. I'll give a proper post about my thoughts on the game. Later. I have to go kill some mutant ants now.

Van out.

Doubly Disappointed

After coming off my "gaming-high" with Call of Duty 4, I felt like playing something a bit different. It being Halloween yesterday, I decided on a scary game. I recently picked up Alone in the Dark on PC cheap from GoGamer.com so I thought I would give it a go (would rather play Dead Space, but I'm 4th in line on Goozex). I installed it during Halloween day, preparing to play it Halloween night (as is only proper).

The production values for this game are excellent. I play at a 1680x1050 widescreen resolution and was very impressed by the visuals and effects. Unfortunately, playing with a mouse and keyboard is not optimal. Wait a second, did I say it wasn't optimal? What I meant was unplayable. I understand now why it was $9.90. Surely they are patching it though, right? Wrong. A quick search turns up that the PS3 version will have many of the problems in the PC and 360 versions corrected, even reports of a patch for the 360 to fix these problems...but nothing on a PC patch. The platform made for patching looks to be left out in the cold. Unacceptable. What sucks, is I WANT to play this game so badly. It looks so great on my PC. Oh well, I guess I'll have to look elsewhere for my scare-fix while I wait in line at Goozex for Dead Space.

/UNINSTALL

I logged into Steam last night, looking for a game to play before retiring to bed. I came across a new game called Samantha Swift and the Hidden Rose of Athena. Sounds gay, right? Yeah, it does. Undaunted by assumed gayness I took a look anyway. It looks like a fun little point and click adventure game and it has a free demo, so I thought, "why not?" I downloaded the demo to give it a try. I ended up not trying Sam Swift until this morning, instead trying once more to play the aforementioned unplayable Alone in the Dark last night.

Loading up the game, a splash screen pops up telling me I have 60 minutes available in my demo. That's fine by me, I can't imagine playing a demo for more than an hour anyway. I click on 'PLAY'...the 60 minute timer magically changes to '0' and I'm informed I have ran out of demo time. Sorry Samantha, you had your chance.

/UNINSTALL

Van out.