It’s been a fairly healthy spring run so far - having finally picked up a PS3 at the start of the year my choice has grown by at least 6 titles.
So, let’s have a think - what I’ve played recently-ish:
On the consoles there’s been Uncharted, Killzone 2, Killzone 3, Crysis 2, Homefront, Enslaved, Force Unleashed 2, finally finished Dead Space, Dead Space 2, Castlevania Lord of Shadows, Demon’s Souls and I even went as far as giving NFS Hot Pursuit a go before I realised I’m rubbish at racing games and put it down.
Bad Company 2 has been the consistent MP of choice, with a few hours of Black Ops thrown in for good measure. Crysis 2 was a contender too, but my group have been struggling with the network issues it throws up and some general stability problems - we had one game where each of the players was slowly killed at random by nothing, turned into a spectator and renamed on the scoreboard… The host was one of the first to go and he crashed when the game ended.
Homefront MP seems enjoyable, but I’ve only rented it and so am stuck as level 5 unless I lay down the monies for it to get an online pass, considering the horror that is the single player campaign I can’t justify full price for it.
I’ve also been getting some vaguely regular play on (in the interests of transparency, my project) Hidden: Source - an HL2 mod that’s been quiet for a long time now (but there are plans afoot to bring it back to life properly). So my quiet periods at work have been me booting up VS and writing code again (hurray!) - though I have found a bit of time to boot up Knights of the old Republic to start another play through.
Scattered in amongst all that is lots of time with Tiny Wings, drop 7, cut the rope and speedball 2 on the iphone…
I’d say I play too many games, but I do it all for a valid cause (I’m the co-host of a manchester based radio show that revolves around vidja games), at least, that’s what I tell myself.
Spring’s most definitely arrived and even though we’re getting more than averagely nice weather here in England, it’s not stopping us playing games. Despite that alluring New Game Smell being spread by all manner of great titles in recent weeks, it’s Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars that has featured in our lunchtime gaming sessions recently, joining regular fixtures Magicka and Mount & Blade: Warband. Magic, swords, guns, and aliens from outer space - we’re pretty sure we’ve got the entire range covered there.
