Nerfed?

Catchin' up with da games.

Published on November 5, 2004 By CraigAlan In Gaming

Current game-related observations:

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3 (Chaos Theory) Delayed to March 2005. I'm not surprised, frankly. I am actually happy over this decision, because I was thinking "isn't November a little too soon?" I'm sure Ubisoft knows what they're doing (I own several of their titles, and no, I don't work for them).

Evil Genius. It'll tide me over until someone, somewhere releases Dungeon Keeper 3 (I know, I can hear it already: "let it go!")

Cowboy Bebop PS2 out October 2005. All I wanna know is... what happened? This game has screen-shots, so I was hoping it was somewhere near release... but I suppose I should know by now that screen-shots don't mean anything.
I just bought Evil Genius, and needless to say I'm a bit disappointed. It's fun and all, but it can be a little hectic trying to keep track of everything (or maybe I'm just not Evil enough... heh).
Two other games I bought recently were Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and Rome: Total War (am I sensing a theme here?) I knew nothing about Warhammer before the day I bought the game, and needless to say I compare the game to the likes of Starcraft, Warcraft, Rise of Nations, and Command & Conquer. In fact, it's really an amalgamation of those games, but with really cool mechs.
Rome: Total War strikes me as being much like Civ III with the ability to participate in massive real-time battles. Just seeing those units on the battlefield... I think today I'll have another go at the prologue... I came this close to annihilating the Greeks, but for some weird reason that wasn't explained to me, I lost the game. Maybe Rome decided I was getting too big for my own good (I had the largest, most powerful faction).

Current position: somewhere between admiring the new scenery in Myst IV, swearing at the TV while playing TIger Woods 2005, unlocking political candidates in the Political Machine, and plotting world domination in Evil Genius.
Favorite new sport game: FIFA 2005 (Soccer = true football).
Mad about you: Tactical RPG games like Disgaea. The world needs more of these (I have La Pucelle and Phantom Brave).
What the heck: Katamari Damacy... a game about rolling a ball around... weirdness.
Trapped near: the inner circle of thought.

Comments

d3adz0mbie

on Nov 05, 2004

Looking forward to Halo2, Half-Life2, Republic Commando and... The Matrix online? Not certain about the last one...mmorgs are fun for a few months until you've grinded through the game. The Matrix is advertising it's different, but then don't all mmorgs?

CraigAlan

on Nov 05, 2004

I steer away from mmorpgs, or mmo anything. Case in point: EverCrack.... oops, EverQuest. A friend of mine and I have lost all contact because of this game. I wonder if she's become trapped inside...

Halo 2: I'll buy it, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it probably won't be as good, or as fresh as the original. But then again, once you've put something unique out there to entice millions of people into purchasing it (it's been cross-platformed to PC AND Mac, mind you), you kinda tend to up the bar way way high.
Half Life 2: Every time I see screenshots of this game I say "Ooh, look, pretty graphics" and I begin to wonder: is there a good story line? Half Life had a pretty good story line. I'm wondering if Half Life 2 is going to step up to the plate.
Republic Commando: I'm all for LucasArts trying to revamp itself and distract people from the current suckitude (yes, that's a word) of the Star Wars movies (note: I'm referring to the recently released "prequels"), but my head is spinning from all the titles out there. I often find myself lost, wandering around GameSpot, looking for a way out, all because of the number of Star Wars games around.
The Matrix Online: I won't buy it, but only because I don't buy MMORPGs. I'd like to see an MMORPG based on the premise of The Matrix, rather than the movie itself.

Other games I'd like to see:

Dungeon Keeper 3 - *sticks tongue out at EA*
A game based on "The Ring"
Any non-Resident Evil zombie game that DOESN'T suck (I'm thinking sorta like Eternal Darkness here, but without all the extra baddies).
A "Fatal Frame" meets "Silent Hill" type game.
Another Mortal Kombat, but bring back the classic characters, and the guy that pops out of the screen and says "Toasty!"
More games like Katamari Damacy, to waste time with.
A very realistic Golf sim like Tiger Woods that allows you to play Mini Golf (Tiger Woods Mini Golf Tour 2006?)
A sequel or update to "Afterlife" (not to be confused with "Alterlife")
Another Neverwinter Nights like game.

That's all I can think of. Stay tuned.

Danny Bassette

on Nov 05, 2004

I like Evil Genius, hehe, it's fun to be EVIL

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