E3 PART 1
Critical opinions on games and gaming culture. By me.
My past few weeks have been divided between my PC and my 360. My Wii has been getting little to no attention. When friends come over who havent played it yet I'll fire up some Wii Sports, but the novelty has worn off. I eagerly await some new titles that arent just a collection of minigames. Gametrailers has put up a glowing review of Resident Evil 4, which i tried for PS2 but couldnt really get into. I found the pacing of the game a little slow for my liking and it didnt really keep me interested. I enjoyed the early Resident Evil games, so Im gonna give ill have to give this one a spin to see if the Wii controls make the experience a bit more.... yknow... Creepy.. and Resident Evily.
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I assure you I am still alive and very commited to this website. I have been speaking with some people about getting a bit of design done so that the site format is more accesible. To make up for my brief absence I will give you this recent gem on youtube.
While the last few Spiderman games have been at least enjoyable, Spiderman 3 misses the mark and ends up being a frustrating experience. Each element of the game is well polished on its own, but the designers lacked the vision to pull all of the elements together into a concise product.
Labels: Review, Spiderman 3, XBOX 360
SOoooooo they announced it.
So this week as I mentioned alot of indy games have been getting play.
As a result of last weeks visit to GameJam, Ive been trying to keep my eye out for interesting indy games. I stumbled across the Slamdance website which had a pretty good collection of indy games, and a little bit of contraversy. Slamdance is a competition where independant games are given recognition through prizes and promotion. The contraversy is around a game that was originally part of the festival, but was removed because of complaints and public outcry.
So gamejam was thoroughly impressive. This year there were only 2 incomplete games (and both of them were playable, just not completely finished). I met a lot of great people and ran into a few that I already knew. I had to take off before the votes for best game were tallied up so I dont know what the official verdict is, but Ill go over some of the games I found particularly impressive.
Labels: Game Design, Gamejam, TO Jam, Toronto