http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gc-10-dragon-age-2/702958

So fricking excited right now. Bioware really needs to make a full-length movie with their mad CG skills.

You may be getting a femnist twitch in your knickers from the ladies being attired in skimpy push-up bras and thin leather pants while the men have on fifty layers of bear skin and armour, but I assure you, their lacy panties of +50 frost resist are far more effective than wrapping up in the remnants of endangered wildlife. Link

Here’s a video of someone else who’s joined the brave Mountain Bike Sniper Corps:

The Witcher 2 is looking solid for an alpha, but the voice they chose for Geralt needs to be replaced with someone who doesn’t sound like a teenager.

• Stunning graphics
• Immersive. Digging out bullets, the thump of a grenade launcher, great first-person animation, etc.
• Fire! Burn! Burn good! Once you get hold of the flamethrower your heart will fill with glee, until you accidentally torch yourself.
• Interesting story, if you manage to follow it.

Bad:

• Difficult to follow story. I know we talk quickly in Africa, but these guys rattle off their lines as if they’re racing each other to get to the end of the script. Most of the time I had to hit escape to check what I was supposed to do right after an NPC explained it to me at mach 3. And the voices were far too soft, but that may be a hardware problem.
• Immersiveness gets tedious when you have to schlep across kilometres of terrain just to pick up a new mission. Why the hell do I have to pick up a folder just to learn that I need to go to place X to kill person Y for being a twat?! I have a cellphone you muppets! MMS me his damn mugshot.
• Unvaried missions. Ubisoft boasted about 80 hours of gameplay, but it’s actually 6 hours repeated ad nauseam.
• Fracking guard posts. I know everyone has whined about this, and I tried to make the most of it by taking them out in creative ways, but after clearing out your 100th post you’ll quickly start trekking cross country on foot just to have a break from the instantly respawning guards. I would’ve preferred a GTA style open world, maybe let us bribe guard posts or wear one or the other side’s uniform.
• Weapons. There are some fantastic weapons, but once you settle on a sniper rifle, uzi, and flamethrower, nothing else comes close to being as effective. Snipe all the guards and mortar bastards, move in with the flamethrower to cause chaos and kill most guards, then use the uzi near your objective so you don’t torch yourself. Rinse & repeat.

Conclusion:

Worth a play, but you will go from loving it to hating it about halfway through. Multiplayer is quite fun, but for some reason there are no local servers in South Africa so I’m playing more Left 4 Dead and Call of Duty: World at War now.

If Little Big Planet was available on PC and they started this bullshit we would have seen millions of people rushing to download illegal copies simply because the legal variant was denied to them. This is why publishers fear the PC and are trying to retain control by only publishing on consoles, because the PC gives the consumer control and that’s supposedly bad for business. Maybe they should focus less on DRM and more on getting their damn games running properly.

It’s rubbish for R30. If it was free I’d have given it a nod out of curiosity, but charging for a demo, whether it’s a game or a demo scene project, is outrageous. It’s not more spectacular than MGS4 or Uncharted, and the interactivity is a joke. Really, go to the art museum for real art or rent a good Pixar movie if you want CG art.

Sadly I bought it on the premise of it containing something greater than what’s shown in the trailer, but the trailer is all of it, so I’d like a refund now.

Oh, I almost forgot we’re not supposed to criticize “art”.

They must’ve heard the complaints about the naff music in their first trailer, because they’ve used just the most fitting song ever and choreographed this trailer brilliantly. I’m totally screwed this holiday season; with Far Cry 2, Fallout 3, Little Big Planet, Prince of Persia, etc. hitting the shelves I’m going to need more money, time, and possibly a catheter to make the most of it all. Ahhh the joys and pains of being a gamer in these glorious times! Don’t forget to check out the gameplay montage as well.

I had high hopes for the Crysis map editor, but was let down by yet another steep learning curve. The Far Cry 2 editor on the other hand looks like it has a flat learning curve for the basics; and by basics I mean creating entire worlds as easily as throwing down some mountains, slapping on trees and rivers with a few clicks, and then running around in first person burning it all down. Hoo boy, I can’t wait for this game!

Oh man, please let this game be as good as this trailer! Don’t let us down like Crysis did!