December 2008
8 posts
BioShock
It is not just another game with awesome graphics thrown in, it’s much more than that, it’s an experience - it makes you feel, disturbed mostly, and makes you think about what happened to Rapture: Politics, science, ethics and morality. But it doesn’t end there, as the player also has a moral choice to make: To harvest ADAM¹ from the little sisters - creepy little girls that...
Links
Oktapodi - Brilliant CGI Animation Short with lots of awards. Watch it here. I don’t think it will be there for long.
Jordan Mechner’s Blog - The guy that did Prince of Persia. The first one (and Sands of Time, also). I like his sketches.
Mazo - Mazo, the iPhone app rejected by Amazon and all.
Gears of War, Hell yeah!
I spent the entire afternoon playing Gears of War (the first). It’s like being in a bad war/action movie - bad actors, badass characters, big weapons, lots of blood, cheesy lines and all - but hey, the formula works really well with a video game.
The berserker part on the end of Act 1, scared the shit out of me.
Loving it.
XBox 360
So, I bought an XBox. Yes, from Microsoft! And I’m having a lot of fun with it.
I grabbed 4 “discount” games to begin: Assassin’s Creed, Gears of War, Halo 3 and Bioshock. I started playing Assassin’s Creed, and I’m loving it. Quietly slicing guards throats is awesome…
Not Dead...
…just busy. ;)