Another 15 minutes

Every now and then I enjoy some strategic games in the Command & Conquer series, and not long ago Red Alert 3 was released. The idea and gameplay of the game is just like what you’d expected.

The plot is that the Russians as a last desperate attempt to rule the world used a time machine invented by a scientist (played by Peter Stormare, he always plays Russians) to travel back in time to kill Albert Einstein to prevent the atomic bomb to ever get developed and fall in the hands of the Americans. However, when they return to present time, this action changed alot more than they expected, and not necessarily to the better…

The game is OK, but it feels kind of cartoonish (and over-acting in the scenes in campaign mode), something that seems to be popular these days with Battlefield Heroes and all the Lego-games etc. However it’s easy to kill a few hours with this game. Something I would like to see though is a possibility to limit a battlefield to only use ground units, and no super-weapons, in skirmish mode for example, because I think it’s fun to build up a nice planned base and its defenses before launching my own attack.

I’m so looking forward to this! This fall both Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2 are released, both with guitar, microphone and drumset. But what are the differences between the games and what will I get? I have read that Guitar Hero is generally a more difficult (and fun) game to play, if you master GH on “hard” level, one would have no problem with RB at all. GH WT also adds new elements to the guitar playing experience with chords that does not all start and end at the same time, but you have to “strum” between them. The compatibility between the games and instruments may differ abit depending on platform, you can play both games with either instruments, but some features might be disabled, like the fifth drumtrack on GH WT if you don’t have their drumset, atleast so I’ve heard. However GH WT have better instruments than RB.

Guitar Hero World Tour

• Create your own tracks.
• Drumkit with 3 drums and 2 symbals.
• Pressure sensitive drumpads.
• Compatible with Guitar Hero.
• Custom characters and instrument creation.
• Touch sensitive pads on guitar for tapping etc.
• Online career mode.
• Drums are quiter than Rock Band’s.
• About 85 songs (download and upload of custom tracks).

Rock Band 2

• Lots of downloadable songs and albums.
• About 80 songs (up to 200 downloadable).
• Backwards compatibility with instruments and songs.

I already have Guitar Hero 3 (Legends of Rock) so I have now pre-ordered Guitar Hero World Tour, even though Rock Band have better songs, but WT seems like a better game. I’m looking forward to World Tour very much :) – about 3 weeks left and counting. I’ll be back with a review of it.

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Collected my pre-order of the PS3 game Far Cry 2 today and spent a couple of hours with it. The first impression was that the graphics was maybe not as awesome as I’ve thought, but it is still pretty cool. Also the environment is very nice and the play area huge, you can run or drive around as you please over a 50 km² African savannah & rainforest, collect missions and earn money to buy better weapons, sort of like Grand Theft Auto 4. The ultimate goal is to find an infamous arms dealer and kill him.

Aiming is abit difficult, but perhaps the opposition is harder also since I started out on a more difficult level than normal. I think this game will take a long time to play through, and I bet I will get bored with driving around pretty soon, because that part is not so fun at all in this game. I like the freedom in the game where you can choose yourself howto proceed with missions, stealthy or mayhem. I still haven’t tried the multiplayer option, so I will probably be back with a report on that one later.

I tried the PC game “Hell’s Kitchen” today, just because. It’s like a small restaurant simulation game where you have to place ingridients in the right order to complete all dishes at the same time or else Gorgon Ramsay will shout “donkey” at you. It was pretty fun the first hour, but quickly becomes pretty boring since the only thing that changes is the amount of ingridients available, they could have made it more advanced and more focused on actually cooking the food right in detail, and less of just a speed point-and-click game.

Anyway, this game can keep you busy if you need to kill a few minutes or so. “Fuck me…”

The new 160Gb Playstation 3 will ship with the game “Uncharted: Drakes fortune”, so I have been curious about this game since it’s pretty old and is now on sale at Dustin Home. So after being recommended the game I decided to get it. I have played through the first couple of episodes and the graphics, controls and the experience of the game is pretty nice, a downside for me though is that the game is very restricted in what one can do, there is only one way to go really so there is no room for exploring any vast environments on your own looking for clues.

Earlier this week we had an afterwork at the office with beers and various games, such as Guitar Hero & Sing Star. It was surprisingly funny with Guitar Hero so I decided to get Legends of Rock for my PS3 also, in waiting for Guitar Hero World Tour with a drumset, mic and second guitar.

I have managed to master the easy level pretty quick so it’s time to move on to medium difficulty. It’s also pretty fun to do online battles and face-offs.

Today I got a hold of a copy of the ever so popular Granf Theft Auto IV (4) game for Playstation 3 and played through a few missions. It’s pretty cool with great graphics, but they game itself offers few surprises if you have played the other GTA games. But I like those little side activities you can do, like dart and bowling etc. I have yet to try the multiplayer part of the game tho, I think this game will provide plenty of time-killing.