When i started playing Starcraft 2, I was pretty pissed because of the Nydus network, Warping in units with a warp prism, and other retarded strategies like that, but after a while I learned that those strats are easily prevented and just how balanced the game is. I was in the 2nd beta wave of keys, (TOOK ME A PAINFUL SEVERAL MONTHS TO DECIDE TO WRITE THIS) and I can’t say i’ve ever had a dull moment. I haven’t been able to really play a ton of 1v1, because most of the time i’m on I just have so many friends who want to 2v2 because i’m such a coolguy. But to make a long review short it’s basically like a 3-d version of Starcraft 1 with some changes, such as no lurker/firebat/vulture, and units like the spine crawler/marauder/hellion instead. I’m positive that Starcraft 2 will have a future in professional gaming, because there already have been several large pro-only tournaments for it, such as the ZOTAC cup and Team Liquid’s invitational tourneys. Anyway i’ve got to go play some more Starcraft, i’m sure that Korean kids will soon be dropping like flies from forgetting to eat, sleep, shit, or any other plenthora of things other than playing Starcraft 2

But overall this game is pretty amazing, it has a great soundtrack (even as small as it is) and the gameplay is pretty generic of a cart racing game. Races are extremely based around who can turbo-drift more. The more you turbo-drift, the more you win. The AI generally sucks, because even at it’s hardest level it is generally easy to win if you are constantly drifting, which is shitty because there is no online multiplayer. The game feels fast, but not quite as fast as i’d like to see from a sonic game.

As much as I’m bashing this game, i’m not giving it what it deserves, it really is genuinely a great game. If you enjoyed mario cart, you’ll get a kick out of this.

NUFF’ SAID.

also, Starcraft 2 beta review coming soon.

As with any Indie game there are some random errors (bugs, grammar/spelling mistakes.)

The first game in the trilogy tells you that you came to this old ass mine shaft to find your father or at least answers about him, there is a bit of fighting, but only with weapons like a hammer and pickaxe. You’ll only be fighting dogs who will rape you unless you Time each swing perfectly.

One of the great things about this game is a bit of a gimmick, I haven’t an idea what it’s called or what I should call it, so I’ll just describe it. You interact with the environment using your hands, so for instance if you’re holding a hammer, you hold mouse1 to tell it you’re going to input hand motions, then move your mouse quickly forward for a jab, or up and to the right to pull it back, and then back down to swing. If you grab onto one of those circular pressure valves, you move it one way to release, one way to tighten (lefty loosy righty tighty) Alot of the environment is destructable, so if you pick up a rock, and swing it into a cupboard, glass goes everywhere, and so do the contents of said cupboard.

Oh did I mention the physics are way better than that of the sorce engine. HAI GUYS WE MADE A FIZIXS ENJIN 4 DA GUN WHATS CONTROLLS GRAVITY AND WHATNOT

The 2nd episode has more enviromental puzzles (navigating thin ice on a lake) than the first game, which favored putting objects and machines together. The one fallback of the 2nd game is that it doesn’t have any combat whatsoever. It’s main focus is story, which is suspenceful, comical, and dramatic. Not to mention amazing.
The story of penumbra is really similar to something you would see out of a great science fiction book, but touches base on a subject science fiction books rarely do; philosophy.

On to the third game. This game is more of an expansion to the 2nd than a full-blown sequal. This game says fuck the story for a bit, let’s do some motherfucking puzzles. One thing I really hate about the 3rd game’s puzzles is that they’re full of platforming, which I hate so god damn much. The third episode ends with a mildly confusing ending, and then if you collected all the ‘Strange Artefacts’ (just YouTube it Id you’re lazy like me) explaining the protagainists motives, which I thought was fucking hilarious, and ends leaving questions about human behavior or some bullshit like that.

If you’re a person who enjoys puzzles or sci-fi this game is a definite must play.

I’m not much of a single-player gamer, in most cases single-player games are just pointless, just AI cannon fodder enemies that you get no satisfaction from killing between the various bits of story, my personal  opinion is that it would be better to watch a movie, or play a multi-player game. But Modern Warfare 2 isn’t actually a game at all. It’s actually a first-person movie that lets you control the camera and shoot stuff occasionally, and the gameplay is generally pretty bland, shoot some guys from cover here, shoot some guys from cover there, I don’t expect much more from a call of duty game. But the plot of this 4 hour movie is amazing, I didn’t actually finish the first modern warfare (got bored on the swamp level) but damn, this is better than most good movies. The plot is alot like a tom clancy book, filled with terrorists and Russians fighting America with a giant conspiracy behind it. The real reason this movie is so god damn great is because it excels in 2 places that other movies fail so much. The first is that it’s unpredictable, most movies these days you can just fucking guess the entire plot from the first 30 minutes of the movie, for example, in transformers 2 when mecha-jesus (optimus prime) dies, I was tempted to leave the theater on the spot, because it was painfully obvious he was going to come back in some jesusesq way at the end and deliver everyone from their sins. I was tipped off as to what the end of the game was, and forgotten the characters involved but i knew there was some sort of betrayal, but damn when said betrayal happened I did not see it coming at all. The latter way this movie excels  is that it makes you care about the characters more. There are several subtle things they do to make you feel a bond with the characters, such as when you do certain things, characters will react in different ways, I know it isn’t really a revolutionary programming trick, and requires nothing more than an ‘if x than y’ statement, but it made you feel like the characters were more like people than just AI’s. Also the giant map variety (from icy cliffs to oil derricks to an old russian castle) makes you feel like you’ve gone to hell and back with these characters.

So really, this is an exceptionally amazing movie, but as a game it is pretty mediocre.

the red and blue 3D technology that we have now just does not cut

it, and I myself do not see any way you could create 3D perception whilst keeping the precision we as gamers need, and the reason for this is simple. When your eyes perceive something as 3D, they have to adjust to different depths, such as while you look at  a finger in front of your face, everything behind it is generally blurry. With 3D goggles the same is true. Take for example a FPS, when you’re looking at the enemy you suddenly see 2 crosshairs because your eyes aren’t focusing on your crosshair because your crosshair isn’t at the same depth as your enemy, and vice versa. Same goes for RTSes with cursors. You may say “How come your crosshair can’t just be at the same depth as your target?” well the simple answer is it would just look weird as hell and throw you off. However, this does not mean that gaming in 3D is a useless technology, shit is still amazing looking as hell. I would suspect that you would be able to play fighters and maybe platformers with 3D goggles (upcoming in the new nintendo title, Mario 3-D.) I think that where this technology will go is into the movie industry, what with pixar

pushing out the same animated movie for itty bitty kids every month or 2, i’m sure they’ll turn to 3-D at some point, and while i’m sure that direct X isn’t what the use in animated movies, i’m still sure that something much like this would be much cheaper than whatever they use to make movies 3-D now.

In short, gaming needs way too much precision for something as out of focus ( c wot i did thar?) as 3-D, but it still looks rewl as hell.

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