Hey guys, to be honest I am quite bored and I would like to talk to you about some video games. I'm guessing that most of you wonderful readers would rather spend your time doing more constructive things like studying, reading, playing children's card games, and poking fun at the Pope-Mobile. But not me, I like to kick back and assume the position of not moving for a few hours.
1) Half-Life (Valve-1998)
Score:5/5
The story follows a 27 year old Theoretical Physicist named Gordon Freeman working at Black-Mesa in New Mexico. His department is working on a portal system that shares a link with this border world called 'Xen.' Well, something goes wrong and now aliens are eleporting into the facility at random and the government is trying to cover up the whole fiasco. It is your job to try and put an end to this nightmare. This games is so great on so many levels! First off, it was the leader in 3-D graphics and engine use back in 1998 and even today you would think it was made post millennium. It is also wonderful because the story behind everything will leave you scratching your head with delight because your brain has just had an endorphin explosion within your cranium.
(I would also like to suggest that after you play this game to go and play the sequels. You won't be disappointed. I give the all a 5/5)
2) Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios - 2008)
Score:4/5
Fallout 3 is the third game installment, of the cannon arc, of the Fallout series. This games is set in the year 2277, 200 years after the great war of 2077 where China nuked the U.S. on Oct. 23rd and started the final World War. This particular story is set in Washington D.C. and the surrounding area's, which is referred to as the "Capital Wasteland." The story follows a 19 year old boy, known as the 'Lone Wanderer,' who left the Vault 101 in search of his father who has gone missing durring his mission to complete his scientific project of 'Project Purity.' The project is meant to take the irradiated water and filter it into clean, drinkable water again.
This game is wonderful for its story. There is so much back story that it could keep a person occupied for a very long time just reading about it (trust me, I know.) It also wonderful because it takes some elements of RPG games and 3rd person shooters and smooshes them together with some pop-culture references that everyone from your Grandmother to you 3 year old sister would understand. The drawbacks would be that the games does crash sometime and you can get stuck very easily.
(Another game I would quickly add is Fallout New Vegas. Same universe only a few years later and, you guessed it, set in Vegas. Also a 4/5.)
3) No One Lives Forever 2 (Monolith Productions - 2002)
Score:3/5
This game is pretty much just a spoof on 60's spy hype. A British organization called UNITY is trying to protect the free world from an evil terrorist group called HARM. It is up to Cate Archer to stop them.
This game is fun and amusing with its bright colours and satirical humor of some of the more redicoules elements of Bond (there is a group of killer mimes in this game.) Some major draw backs are that it gets very repetitive and confusing at times, and the constant loading of maps takes away a lot from the moment of the game.
4) Halo: Combat Evolved (Microsoft Game Studios - 2001)
Score:2.5/5
This story revolves around a super Spartan called Master Chief who is trying to stop Covenent forces from releasing a creature called the Flood upon the galaxy. The Flood are housed on this planet that is shaped like a Halo (See what happened there!) and it is up to Master Chief to save the day.
First off let me say that this game was good in breaking graphics and putting X-Box on the map. The story is fine, but a bit overplayed. The controls are standard and it does give you a lot of fun weapons to play with as well as a whole universe to discover (on your own.) Now for the drawbacks. EVERY LEVEL HAS THE EXACT SAME MAP! You could be on track but swear that you've fought the same battle in the same location with the same enemy ten other times since you've started playing it. That is my biggest beef with this game. It is such a killer of the moment and I wish I never played it. If you do have to play make sure to play it on the X-Box and not on the PC (which I did) and play it with a friend, makes it easier to go through without stabbing yourself.
I am sure that the other games in this series are far better and that this game must have been purely made for its multi-player ability, otherwise, I have no idea how it got to be so popular.
Well, that is my review on a few of the games that I have played recently. The views expressed in this post are purely my own and do not reflect the views of the gaming world at large or the views of Passing Faces as a group. I hope you had fun reading it and hopefully want to try, or stay away, from a few of these titles.
Honorable mentions
(Some of these games I may do a review on them later, when I have finished playing them.)
1) Half-Life 2
2) Dead Rising 2
3) Bioshock 2
4) Assassins Creed 1&2
5) 007 Goldeneye
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