Medal of Honor PC Beta Impressions
Got my feet wet with some Medal of Honor action. If you are wondering it's mostly like Bad Company 2 but with a few ideas from Modern Warfare 2 like killstreaks (scorechains) but sadly there is virtually no destruction present from BC2. The game has a lot of bugs, even for a beta. Some are presentation, some are map design (bad chokepoints) and some are just gameplay balances. If you want to know more just click the picture and away you go!
Finally after my long boycotting phase I've joined the "new" survivors for a taste of L4D2. I got it during the steam sales. So far it's proving to be like visiting an old friend, skills are coming back to me. To start with the spitter, jockey and charger would often completely destroy me but slowly I'm getting used to them and the levels. Played versus just before and managed to incap 3 green survivors with one shot by knocking a car up the side of a railing. :)
Jockey is funny but I also like the spitter, no more pesky campers! I think I've played all the campaigns now in versus but only finished like half the maps (if that). Haven't yet completed a campaign. :P
This one was a pleasing surprise. I expected something like Sands of Time but generally inferior. Instead what I got was something like Sands of Time without frustration. The combat is easy, but that just makes the combat become like a break between the platforming. The platforming also gets interesting toward the end with frozen water and invisible walls. A very solid effort and one I recommend.
Got my hands on Singularity, and so far it seems alright. I'm only a few hours in and I am suffering badly from the texture streaming problem. It's probably even more annoying when my framerate is 120fps and I see these extremely low res textures below my feet. The game takes plenty of inspiration from Bioshock, Dead Space and even Wolfenstein. I will let you know how successful that is.
Also playing some Infamous on my PS3. The similarities between it and Prototype are uncanny. If you played prototype imagine a game that has a better story (also better presented) with some more conventional weapon type powers (rockets, grenades etc) and it revolved around electricity not an infection and you probably have it. I'm not sure the actual combat (when things get crazy) is as good as prototype but the game is still good fun.
Enjoy your weekend everybody :)