Category Archives: computer games

Fallout 3 Vs Fable 2

By Dwardus | Published December 22, 2008

I was having a chat earlier about games to one of those seasoned gamer types (a good bloke!). He recommended me a bunch including BioShock, Fable 2, Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, Mass Effect and some others which I’ve conveniently forgotten. Certainly enough to be going on with though. In fact I’m not planning on buying any for a couple of weeks (in reality I’ll probably buy some in the sales) but I have some pretty cool ones right now.

Let’s not Fallout. Here, have a drink.

By Dwardus | Published December 21, 2008

It finally feels like Christmas which is nice. I had a few drinks on Friday and it was pretty cool (while still embarrassing in places), but I was knackered before I started. Yesterday (Saturday) was mainly sitting around playing Fallout 3 and today hasn’t been much different! I have had a chance to do a bit thinking about my story though. I have an annotated manuscript back from one of our group and it is awesomely helpful – now I can fix things that are broken and/or aren’t as clear as they could be in my story. Despite the fact that I was feeling pretty crappy after giving it out (I rushed to get it out the door and… well I’m gonna stop going on about it, cos that’s not helping!) Long and short is – the feedback made me feel pretty good and now I’m happy to go back and edit things.

Fallout 3

By Dwardus | Published December 19, 2008
If you know anything about gaming then you probably know more than me about this fantastic game. I’m going to keep this short, but it’s the detail which has made it so cool in the few hours I’ve played of it so far. I’d recommend you have a butchers below if you like innovation, even if you don’t like gaming too much. It’s great to be able to play something the way you want – I’ve been a nasty b*stard so far, always answering back and killing the innocent (for which I do feel some remorse). God knows what’ll happen to my albino tashed psychopath a few hours on when the rot really sets in!

Batman – Arkham Asylum

By Dwardus | Published December 15, 2008

Batman, Arkham Asylum – I’m hoping this is as cool as it looks!

Tomb Raider Underworld, on reflection

By Dwardus | Published December 15, 2008

Some of the single room puzzles can take a while and are pretty clever, harking back to similar locations in the original games. Combat appears to take a backseat, and although shooting two enemies at once and shooting off walls when climbing is pretty cool, it is gravely underused. Many of the cool moves from Legend (where combat was awesome) seem to have been removed which is a shame, because Lara’s motion capture makes her really fluid. Being a Crystal Dynamics game the combat in Legend was very reminiscent of Legacy of Kain: Defiance, which was no bad thing because that was immensely fun to play.