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Heh. I came across this video during my web crawling tonight:

Reading through the GAME website as I sometimes do, I came across WET. For most games, I mostly read the description first; and then move on, but with this I decided to look at the website for it; and spent some time watching the videos.

The visual action reminds me slightly of Stranglehold, with the slow motion; points for kills; reticule targeting; and acrobatic type dives. Although a martial arts master isn’t all that acrobatic.

The last three videos on the site where trailers for the game, which I am yet to see on television. Out of the three, the final one is the funniest; and worth a silly YouTube embedment:

I have since added the game to my wish list, and will keep an eye on it after release. It might be slightly enjoyable.

Me; Me; Me; Ben; Ben; Ben; Me; Me; Me; Me; Me; Me; Me; Me; Me; Ben; Me; Me; Me; Me.

That’s the current status of Planet ZB. ¹

Ha!

Although I must say, Ben’s postings out-way mine in every aspect; except awesomeness.

Ooo, Ben! If you appear; can you change my avatar link?

1: Everyone else needs to start randomly posting rubbish on web-logs again.

Okay, I know I’m late to the party, and everyone has already gone home; but I feel like blogging. So there!

Over the past few weeks I have been playing the latest in the series of Grand Theft Auto games, and I’m disappointed. I’m all for advancements in technology and games, but when you start removing things that other people like; and work so well, it becomes an issue.

Yes, up-date the game engine; give those hex shape thingies rounded corners; enhance the colours; use sharper images; *insert more technical stuff here*; but don’t take away the original, and classic, game play. A handful of people complained about the Flying Rats, and the fact you gain practically nothing from shooting 200 of them. I have to agree; where are the stashes of weapons?

If the aim was to mirror realism, then where are the co-ordinated police roadblocks; the swapping of insurance details; the ability to find paid employment; the paying of bills; everything else that is real? It isn’t there because it isn’t realistic. It’s a game. So it should play like a game. Like the old games.

I’m one person who enjoys side-missions, as I hate completing something and never playing on it again. So why are there no paramedic missions; pizza deliveries; taxi drop-off’s (that count for something); bus drop-off’s; fire truck missions; buying businesses (vice city stories); the army on six stars; ice-cream deliveries; I’m missing a few, but you get the idea. Everything here is real, they are real jobs, people do them daily. I suppose if someone was causing enough destruction, and killing all your swat dudes, you would call the army in.

On top of the above, what’s with the character movement? Who the fudge walks like that?

I’m hoping, albeit not too much, that an up-date is sent out to add all of this back in. Somewhat a downloadable content package, for free; and optional since some people hate side-missions.

/me looks around the empty party. /me starts to dance.

I have thus-far spent the past several hours reading through a handful of topics over at HNZ, in order to understand how the role playing game is played, and I’m more confused about what to do than how I feel after I’ve just woken up.

Okay, so maybe I didn’t have any sleep last night; and I somehow managed to watch rubbish on T.V until about 7am; and maybe my head hurts too much to actually read anything, but I’m in the mood to find out what an RP is; and how they are played.

/me :glare:’s at Nicolas’ status.

Non of this entry makes any sense.

It seems the sorting process will take place in September. That’s like, a long time away; like, forever!

Oh noes, I over-used the work like. Eeek. /me feels icky inside.

If I join this RP thingeh, I don’t particularly want to participate in an adult role; since I have no character; or back-story; or personal development; or skills; or experience; or .. you see where I’m going with this. I’m thinking starting at the beginning will be largely beneficial to my role playing; and the overall development of my character. Eee, look at me; I’m soo getting into this!

/me requires assistance. /me waits for the on-line sound from Nicolas.

Hopefully Mr Cape Stealer can clear a few items up for me, and I can join in over there. Hopefully.

Mini review time.

The over-all storyline for this movie is, I feel, a little better explained. With you knowing what the characters are setting out to do, and not wandering aimlessly around for half an hour. There is more of a love angle being thrown at you, but then who wouldn’t want to galavant across the world with the love of their life to save said world?

For those of you who are a little bit older, prepare yourselves for innuendo after innuendo. The movie is full of them! And they’re mostly really funny. :D : /me sniggers at the childish humour.

The final battle scene is much like the first battle from the original movie; out in the dessert with explosions and flares and sand and stuff. The choreography in the second movie is really well done, and I don’t remember hat it was like in the first.

I can’t seem to remember any bad points, or rather; nothing springs to mind, so maybe that’s the sign of a good movie? I recommend going to watch this, even if your a bit sceptical. A movie is a movie after-all.

I still suck at reviews.

Just saw this on xkcd: http://xkcd.com/594/

Need I say more.

*/me ducks as all the girls attack him*

*/me needs to implement /me tags*

For the past few months I have been trying to purchase a copy of MoH: Airborne due to thoroughly enjoying the game the previous time I was on it. However, this isn’t as easy as one would dream (we haven’t quite made it to thinking yet); as the game is either out of stock; or just too highly priced where I live.

I tried to locate a copy on-line, but gave up since it meant actually looking for sites that would sell one; or registering on ones I did find.

I have an account with Game, as I have utilised the reward card since the day the Redcar branch opened several years ago. Sending an email to them came back negative. She wasn’t pregnant after all. Phew.

Wait, what!?

Quick, mention a game and side-track them.

In short, they don’t have stock orders for anything further than a week ahead. So they have no idea if a copy will arrive. The price currently loiters on my WishList at £14.98; which is a payable price. Heh, I actually want to give money away for once, and no-one is around to take it. :p

There are several other games on my WishList too, including; but not limited to:

• Wolverine: Un-Caged Edition;
• Assassins Creed 2 ¹;
• Saint Row 2 ²;
• and Max Payne 3 ¹

I remember back when games where half the price they are now. What’s with the mark-up eh?

¹ Un-released; and can’t afford the pre-order price.
² Yea, I still haven’t purchased this; but I have little monies and no tree to grow it on.

I can only say wow!

Having just watched a game play video, I can only say wow!

This time around, there are new methods for eliminating the enemy, such as using the blade whilst sat on a bench; dragging someone into a cart of hay; grabbing a guard from a tower, whilst still hanging onto the wall, and pulling him over the edge; borrowing someone’s weapon to dispatch them ( before handing it back and saying thank-you, in the politest of ways ); and something really sexy, dual blades; meaning two kills at once.

The E3 trailer, coupled with the game play, looks immense; and places the sequel high above its predecessor, and in my view; above any other game set for release this year. ¹

I already have the game on my wish-list, but I can’t really afford to pre-order it; or buy it shortly after the release. I chose to gain my copy of the first game when I purchased my console, instead of CoD4, ² so I can always go back on that.

When I can spare the notes, I look forward to playing the new story-line; and look forward to any surprises hidden away inside. If there are any . . .

¹ The majority of games others like don’t interest me much. I enjoy relaxing games, like chess.
² Why not CoD4? See ¹.

I’ve just spent some time re-downloading mission packs ¹ for the Condition Zero branch of Counter-Strike, which was no easy feat on its own; and I’ve just remembered how fun the game is, and how fast time can slip past ( it’s already after ten ).

I’m not overly keen on multi-player stuff for any type of game, so I do prefer to play the solo missions; all on my own and what-not.

Hopefully this time round I can actually complete something, since I usually became side-tracked with other items or projects etc. I still haven’t completed the deleted scenes package yet.

*waits for the single comment*

Hehe. I don’t know. It’s summer, maybe I’ll finally learn to finish projects and games I start . . .

¹ I still have each of the packs, as well as a number of fixes, if anyone needs them. ^2
2 Saying that, I may as well link to the sites: Urban Ruins; Index of Packs; Deleted Scenes fixes. I’ll leave it to you to decide what you wish to download, and trust that you’ll read up on things and follow read me files before installing.