Another 15 minutes

I was in the mood for a new PS3 game this weekend and after playing the demo of H.A.W.X. I decided to get it, it was on sale too. The graphics is very good, and the feeling of plane control too. I played through the campaign missions on level “hard” and actually finished the game in one evening, which is ofcourse not a good grade for a game I think. But I could always continue with online play, co-op or versus mode, which makes any game more fun I think. If it wasn’t for a huge harddrive installation (5 Gb) and short single user campaign it would have got 4 out of 5 from me for the graphics and feel of the game.

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It actually wasn’t so many years ago one was playing the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) 8-bit gaming console for hours at a time and suffering from a Nintendo-thumb. It’s mindblowing when you think about the progress made since then. When you look at the graphics possible back in the late 1980′s it’s laughable, but very nostalgic for people born in the 1970′s, like me, who used play these games. One game in particular bring back alot of memories for me, “Castle Vania”. It brings back bitter sweet memories of incredible frustration and happy simple times. I found a site some time ago where you can actually play pretty much all those old Nintendo games as they were, right from the web in your browser using Java. Just look at the graphics, hear the sounds, it makes me wonder what the hell we were thinking. But ofcourse it was state of the art back then, ah it makes me smile. Play this game, and many more at www.virtualnes.com, sometimes it’s just fun to look at them again to remember.

Castle Vania, anyone else played this game? I don’t remember it as this ugly, hehe.

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.

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.