I assure you that you haven’t seen everything
I will leave you to make your own judgment on this one…
(All the pics link to the same page: a trailer for the game Bibleman: A Fight for Faith)
Congratulations! I got good score!
WOO-HOO! WOO-HOO! WOO-HOO!
I BEAT TROGDOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS THE BEST GAME I’VE EVER PLAYED!!!!!!!
OK. Phew.
It’s a real bear because there are 100 levels, and there’s no way I’m doing that in one sitting. And there’s no way to save the game. So I had to do 5 levels here, 10 levels here over the course of a few days, pausing the game every so often (wasting precious electricity while I’m at work not using the comp, since turning it off would obviously wipe out all progress).
Maybe it’s not a true victory, in that I used the cheat code to get 27 extra mans in the beginning (you normally get 3). And I needed 23 of them to win. Even so. Around level 92, it looked like I was going to fall just short:
And at level 96, I was down to 4 mans. Fortunately, that was the last difficult level, as level 97 cycled back to the start of the cottage placement cycle. (There are 32 cottage placements, more or less trending easy to hard)
You get a free mans every 300 points. That means I earned 48 mans, for a total of 78 (including the ones I started out with), and burned burninated through 72 of them.
The ending was pitiful (undoubtedly on purpose):
It shows the characters, says “Keep Playing” at the end, then sends you to level 101.
Enough of that. Time to do work now.
Anyone wanna take a stab at this game?
Electronic Arts has the official NFL license wrapped up, so any competing American football video game products can’t use real NFL teams or players. So, they have to find other ways to attract gamers.
They can sign retired players, and in this preview of All-Pro Football 2K8, we see that one of the former players 2K Sports uses is O.J. Simpson. In the game, he plays for a team called the Assassins, and the preview’s worth it just for the crowning moment at the end.
Computer games a’int just for kids, kids
An Iranian student organization has developed a game called “Rescue the Nuke Scientist”, where Iranian special ops rescue nuclear scientists from the U.S. and Israel. This is in response to KumaWar’s “Assault on Iran”, in which the player infiltrates an Iranian nuclear facility. Next thing you know, we’ll start deciding wars by computer simulations instead of actual fighting.
Parents addicted to an online game were arrested for neglecting their kids. According to the prosecutor, “They had food; they just chose not to give it to their kids because they were too busy playing video games.” That’s pretty sad.
Speaking of online games, a couple friends and I had a most gratifying World of Warcraft session (and it’s been a while). Our job was to escort a computer character without her dying; we had an average level of 36. There was this level 42 enemy Hunter who decided to kill the escort just to be annoying–but we all ganged up on him and he panicked, realizing as he fell to his death that 6 levels of difference wasn’t enough to deal with three against one.
Side note: when a female says “watch my rear”, most males will be all too glad to oblige…
I am proud to say that I haven’t made any children starve due to World of Warcraft.
I hate level 26 of Trogdor
You know how in a video game, it happens where there’s that one level or scenario you just can’t beat? Presenting…level 26 of Trogdor.
I hate it. It’s easy to get trapped trying to stomp peasants from the northern huts, and they can’t wander far, so they tend not to be out as long. I’ve gotten past it before, but not without losing a ton of mans (If you’re wondering how I have so many, it’s this secret code.)
Sequels
Spiderman 3: There are very few movies in a given year that I actually look forward to seeing (and by extension, actually see)–this was one of them. Recommendation can be made very succinctly:
- If you liked the first two, you’ll like the third.
- If you didn’t like the first two, you won’t like the third.
- If you didn’t see the first two, watch them first.
It’s a shade below the “there’s nothing to complain about” level. 8/10.
Starcraft 2: If you’re not familiar with it, here’s the scoop: Starcraft 2 is a guarantee that, the day it is released, millions of people worldwide will not eat, sleep, or move away from their computers for the next 24 hours. This may not even be an exaggeration.
One of my friends was surprised–and slightly disappointed–about how similar the appearance was to the original. However, the game probably won’t come out until I’m 30, which should be plenty of time for Blizzard to tweak whatever they want to tweak. (Remember how ugly it started out?)
