Yesterday was probably the first time in my life I fell bored. As it appeared, the only game I've recently played was Fallout 3, a little bit of Wanted, and Burnout Paradise. I discovered I didn't haver an FPS, so I decided to call up the good old times and installed Crysis Warhead again. As I played through the first level, I enjoyed the coming back of that unique sensation of Crysis-exploring. No other games have quite the same charm and unique, tranquil environment. I even wrote a review, a little late for warhead, but there you go anyway.

Don't mind the avatar. It may look like fanboysm, but I changed because it just looks great, nothing else. Honestly :P

The Wanted review. I am currently too lazy to express my feelings here, so if really interested you can check out the review.

I've been feeling a little too bored from all those heavy-themed games like Fallout... So I decided to get something more for fun than hardcore gaming, so I tried some demos and I'm down to three B titles, which are Watchmen, Wheelman and Wanted. Different genres, no multiplayer, just what I want. But Watchmen gets repetitive, and it's a bit too dark. Wheelman seems nice(Haven't played a demo, not sure if it even exists for PC), but I already have Paradise for racing... so most likely I'll get Weapons of Fate. They say it's too short, like 5 hours, but I liked the film and the gameplay seems nice. So if it's really that short expect a review soon.... tomorrow evening maybe....

Yes I downloaded the demo for Weapons of Fate today. The game as I take it is pretty good, and a solid candidate for renting. Here's what I got from the demo:

The gameplay is great, although I found the default mouse sensitivity setting a little too high. The mechanics work fine, there may be some confusing with cover but it takes minutes to get used to. The special powers include the famed bullet curves(Actually, you're curving their trajectory, but whatever) and a cover-from-cover bullet-time mode. Both work fine and are very easy to handle AND cancel if you change your mind(That's important for me). Both also require Adrenaline, for which you have 2 slots(Guess there will be more in the full version), and which you gain by killing enemies. The demo took place in a crashing airplane, so the optimization can't be measured just yet because fo the tight quarters. Overall, my GT8600 performed nicely at a 800x600. Funny, I know, but apart from the resoulution I found no other graphic settings. The graphics themselves are pretty neat, with nice HDR, m/blur and artistic design put in the game. But the textures, models and animation simply aren't as good as they should be. From the one cutscene I got I can only judge that they too are not greatly done. Animation failures include the facial movement.The voice acting was generally good, from the bits I got. A little bit of Cross, and a little bit of Wesley(who wasn't voiced by McAvoy, but resembled his voice very well). The dinamics and action seem genetically fused with the very core of gameplay here, and that's something we rarely see these days.

So, that was it. It will be a very decent game for rental, if the pacing we saw in the demo will be contained in the full version.

Today I got my long-anticipated MOMO Racing Wheel, immediately went and tested it on GRID. amazing piece of hardware.

It plays well, has all those nice vibration effects for every kind of roads and a step-based clutch. G25 was my primary target but the price was too high... But MOMO's still great.

The darned Fallout 3 review is done. I spent 2 days on it, three hours in total, and it's still crap imo. Too much fanboysm there, although it's the only RPG I've ever played I tihnk(Oh no wait, Mass Effect!).

So you have probably already played it so don't bother wasting your life reading this piece of crap :P But it was too long to be just thrown away, it would be a pity. so here ya go.

Today I downloaded The Watchmen Demo from GS. I saw the movie yesterday, and thought the plot was clever and the characters were really interesting. As a movie adaptation, the demo doesn't do much. Only two characters, helping out a prison riot. Nice combat system, great design, and the cinematics seemed like an interesting experiment(Ultimate Spiderman had nice comic-like cinematics, and Watchmen kind of fuses it with the ones in Mirror's Edge). It's a nice game to have fun, with good replay value. But it just lacks interesting situations and is too repetitive. I'm definitely not buying the first episode, although I'm looking forward to next ones.

yet another review for Mirror's Edge. Enjoy it.

Sooo It turned out I reached level 3. Didn't expect so fast. So I wrote my review of Burnout: Paradise. Be sure to check it out.

Soooo been a while since I started keeping track of HAWX... Not really interested in Air-Simulation and such, but I liked blazing angels and a modern arcade from the same dev seemed promising. And not having a console and Ace combat also did their part. Now what can I say... 3 Planes, no save feature, no coop(sad...), and one mission to complete. From the first second I absolutely disagreed on using assistance. The camera seemed a little TOO attached to the plane's tail, the controls were like steering a tank... honestly. When I turned the thing off it felt like total freedom(I started with expert mode, stuck to it afterwards), no need to lock camera, better maneuvers and definitely the kind of dynamic dogfights and spectacular gameplay I expected. But it's definitely an arcade, to the core. The cockpit, well, nicely done, but apart from displaying the planes speed, altitude and ammo, is absolutely useless and well, uncomfortable to play with. A little interaction would be nice. Oh and 200 rockets per plane also seem a bit(ahem) too much even for an arcade. A Tom Clancy's brand must at least try to have some seriousness. Nope. You'll have a mere F-14a Fighter doing triple somersaults and firing Multi AA missles at 4 Su-47-s simultaniously and then hitting a tank in the middle of skyscrapers, with pinpoint accuracy. And no such things like stalling from high altitude or doing takeoffs. Wait no, there was actually a stall thing in the training, but it's so easy to overcome it's just funny. It mostly happens when you fail to do a backflip, or screw up while with the assistance off. And That's not often. But it definitely delivers the sensation of being a part of an elite squadron. Sure, you can just order your teammates to attack and fly around, waiting for the mission to complete itself. Not that the AI is very bright, or very dumb... I actually can't say because at those speeds it was hard to monitor NPC's. Guess it's just the rock-paper-scissor thing. But yeah, the mission pretty much completes itself. And only at the end, when you show off against kinda-like-boss 4 fighters, you understand all those ERS, assistance and advanced air moves that were promoted. Those guys were HARD. That was actually when my faith in the game was restored. So go hawx, waiting for ya. I also liked the little details. Flares, for instance. Nice and classy. Not that they are always needed, but it's always nice to have them by your side. The rocket camera mode is a little unpolished, your plane is uncontrollable during missle monitoring so choose your moments. Oh and the geographic map... well, It just looks TOO much like the maps have just been streched over the landscape and then prettied with some 3D buildings and rare trees. While horrible up close, the GeoEye textures somehow seem like the most natural thing from high altitudes. Weird, I know... Aaand lastly I was astounded by the optimization. I have a low-end PC, and managing a maximum settings with AA and 45 FPS(no high hopes, DX10 was disabled) is a real feat for my card, especially on an up-to date game. So good job on that Ubi. All in all I think I'll wait for GS-s review, and then I'll decide about buying it. It still sometimes feels a little wrong, then a little astonishing, and constantly the mix of the two. 17 More locations, they say. and 50 planes. Well, I'll hope for the best.