Yeah, I know, Interactive Movies are so 20th century, but it’s easy to forgive it for being one when it’s:
Flash-based in your browser
Well plotted with a wonderful sense of self-preservation & moral ambiguity as you progress
AND
full of Zombies!
The acting is a bit poor (though no worse than any other zombie movie, except maybe Shaun of the Dead, which was categorically brilliant) and the decision trees don’t really deviate much from the correct path (i.e. make a wrong decision and you die now, rather than 7-8 decisions down the line).
Yep, in yet another dire sequence of events for the games industry, Fallout 3 has already reached the torrent networks. Rumour has it being a gold-master stolen from the pressing plant or a review copy.
Back in August, I wrote a little diatribe for Mr. Pitchford outlining why the lack of PC demo for his latest WW2 Squad Shooter resulted in my cancelling my pre-order. Clearly that 50:50 change turned into a 99:1 (if not 100:0) and the game has now been released to stores.
Maybe the 85%+ reviews hold some water and Gearbox have made a game that is both great to play and not designed for brain-dead console dweebs (yeah, you!). Maybe the game isn’t full of trademark Ubisoft bugs and Hartsock won’t fly around the screen like Boiling Points jaguars. But then how can I possibly know without a demonstration?
I saw it in GAME and Gamestation for £24.99 . Here’s all I have too say, Mr. Pitchford…
Quality or not, give me a demo and we’ll talk.
- UPDATE -
Looks like I was wise to hold off purchasing the game… The PC version has major problems with ATI graphics cards, numerous other bugs and the voice acting is (apparently) even more annoying than the previous games. The question is, since all of us PC gamers are thieves, will Ubi even both patching it? Until they do, I won’t bother buying it.
Microsoft have finally retaliated properly to Apple’s I’m a Mac adverts. Quite simply, they try to destroy the stereotype that everyone who uses a PC is a boring fat office-type with a bad brown suit.
Whether the next attempt will specifically reinforce the stereotype that most Mac users are clueless under-productive homosexual computer noobs who spend most of their day browsing social networking sites and being ‘hip’ and ‘trendy’ is yet to be seen!
Midway have just released the original (and better) horror shooter, The Suffering, for free. The PC version is 1.3GB, supported by ads (hopefully not contextual) and can be found here.
Whether this is up-front promotion for a new third entry into the series is unknown, but if it is, lets just hope they listen to the gameplay criticism levelled at the sequel, Ties that Bind (can’t carry health packs my arse).
As this post says on the tin, Dell are now offering an Ubuntu 8.04-variant of their netbook to the UK market for 269… teapot lids!
Curiously, you are offered the option of downgrading the camera to 0.3MP for £0.00 (someone should get shot for that one) and (what seems to be) the Windows Tax has meant that we’ve lost half of the SSD to offset Microsoft’s XP subsidy, but otherwise the specification is the same as the original XP release.
I’m actually using ALL my mental willpower to stop myself buying one… yet…
I haven’t really touched on the latest EA DRM clusterfuck because I don’t own any of the games affected by it (the Creature Creator doesn’t count) but it’s clear that following a mass Amazon revolt, Youtube rants and, well, much much piracy, disgruntled users are taking it all too the next stage - polluting the games user generated content with soapbox statements!
GameCulture gives us a taste of some of them here.
On a related note, I wonder if any of the creators are actually playing the game enough to get such creations into the universe portion of the game - on one hand, it would make them hyprocrites, but on the other there’s no better way to get the point across than too have your fledgling race abducted by a master race of Veroflraptors.
