December 2009
The gaming year in summary. A year to remember....
Fireworks and drinking ahead! It’s nearly the New Year!
Some fireworks going off over japan apparently.
Whether you play games or don’t. It’s been a cracking year for PC gaming and I hope you’ve had a wonderful year regardless. There have been some excellent big developer titles and amazing indie gems. Here is a LONG summarised list of the games released this year that...
A bridge too far.
The fifth and final part of my Left 4 Dead 2 series is upon us.
I played through The Parish and gosh what a finale.
“We’ve been through hell getting here, let’s make this count”
I couldn’t agree more with coach when he remarked upon our journey thus far. The survivors have endured a lot of troubles with many ups and downs. Now to see the final rescue in sight...
There's a storm a-brewin'
The fourth campaign in my Left 4 Dead 2 series. Nearly the finale.
Hard Rain. It’s going to get messy.
First of all I have to re-iterate that in Left 4 Dead 2 the campaigns flow into one another in a progressive narrative. So, at the end of Swamp Fever I gallantly escaped on a boat. A problem arises on this intrepid boat journey. We need fuel. It’s going to be a mad rush for the...
It's a bug hunt.
A new ‘story’ trailer for Aliens Vs Predator has emerged from beneath the depths of the crawling horrors of the Internet. It’s made by Rebellion who actually developed the first Alien Vs Predator game. I have high hopes for this. I really want it to be good but I’m rather apprehensive about it as Rebellion aren’t exactly constant in their quality. They’ve made...
I'm Tellin' Y'all It's Sabotage.
After that rush of playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 out of the way I’m moving onto playing something else now. It goes by the name of… The Saboteur!
I would have been playing it sooner were it not for EA/Pandemic releasing it in a broken state for the PC. At least for people with an ATI card anyway. It finally got beta patched a few days ago on the 18th of December after...
I still love you Captain Price.
The duty has been done and now I’m going to reflect on the second half of this fantastically cinematic, short lived and explosion filled action shootfest. Part two of a first time play through of MW2.
Boring is not a word that springs to mind when you’ve got to write up the second half of a Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 play through. Neither is slow. Not by a long shot. It only...
Welcome to your alternate future explosion lesson.
It’s modern. It’s warfare. It’s bat-shit insane and I kinda like it. Sort of. Part one of a first time play through of MW2.
I won’t be posting screenshots of my supposedly short endeavour in this modern manshooty game as it is far too frantic. Stuff explodes on a regular basis. I just don’t have the time to stop and do fancy shots of men shooting each other from...
Current Warfare Too.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Yes, I’m finally going to play it. I think. Maybe.
After all the hype surrounding this monster has died down i now feel it is time to take the plunge and see what all the fuss is about. It can’t be that bad/good can it? Surely not. I have the time to do it and a bit of escapism is exactly what i need right now.
So without further stalling off I go.
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The Beginning Of The Week.
I should have posted this the other day but the weekend was busy and fantastic.
Great news! Batman Arkham Asylum has a sequel in the works. Not surprising as the success and reception has been phenomenal. It totally deserved all the praise it received from the small company Rocksteady Studios and it was a ‘Solid’ game. I really enjoyed my play through of it. They got the atmosphere...
No blogs for a week or two.
I really hope to finish playing Left 4 Dead 2 soon but….. I’ve been busy working away this week lifting, sorting and packaging words in letter form. Same goes for next week, I’ll be working heavily and have no time for anything other than Eating, Smoking and Sleeping. This is the time of year I actually do some work for a change because the lovely people at Royal Mail decide they...
Uploading gameplay videos is HARD.
I had no idea how long it would take to upload a video of me shooting a rad scorpion to death in Fallout 3. I was going to upload the video to either YouTube (the obvious choice) or my Photobucket account to test the waters. I failed.
I’ve had no experience uploading videos to the Internet before now and had no idea how long it would take. It turns out, it takes quite a while. A few hours...