Rock Band excels at fulfilling the “hit button and get a pleasurable outcome” center of my brain. There is altogether satisfying with getting together with your friends and pretending to play a song that you know.
When one of you fails, you all fail. When you all succeed, it is a moment resplendent and glorious. There [...]
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I didn’t really get into Killzone 2’s multiplayer until recently.
As befitting a game titled “Killzone 2″ you are invariably and unregrettably placed into a zone where you are then encouraged to kill people. It’s true, the title hides no secrets. One can also deduce that it’s a sequel, if you scour the text carefully.
As a [...]
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Rune Factory Frontier is something else. I’ve already logged over 20 hours. To put that into a little more perspective, that’s longer than most games from start to finish. To make that wide angle, let me put it this way: I think I beat the first dungeon, but I’m not sure. I didn’t consult the [...]
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Popcap has combined two of my favorite gaming past times:
Tower Defense
Zombie Killin’
And added a little bit of their own Popcap spin on the genre. They even added a bit of “card collecting” to the mix, although thankfully that’s only a limited implementation. (Because it would end me.) Essentially, you can only take a certain number [...]
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I’ve been playing a lot of Left 4 Dead and really itching to play Call of Duty: World at War’s Nazi Zombies mode. Also looking forward to Dead Rising 2, which appears to be zombies in Las Vegas. Dead Space was essentially zombies in, well, in space.
I don’t actually know what the appeal is. I’m [...]
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
I had some time to kill the other day so I cranked up the old gaming rig and patched up City of Heroes to see how long it would take to whip out a custom mission.
Really, not that long. After taking the grand tour, I pretty much dove straight in to the Mission Creator. It’s [...]
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
We never had a family board game night. There just wasn’t enough people to have a decent game of Monopoly. Not that I ever had a truly fun game of Monopoly. Most games I play turn into the slow bleeding elimination of the other players. If I ever get roped into it, I usually try [...]