I’ve been meaning to write this for a while.
Unreal Tournament 2004 is a great game. It plays fine with just about everything visual maxed. The game plays and feel just like Unreal Tournament. It looks great, sounds great, and is a lot of fun. What’s new from UT (I haven’t played UT2003) are teams and credits. Every match has an entry fee and a prize. Also, you must hire team members to fight on your side. New team members may be acquired by challenging other teams. It’s pretty cool.
I have ran into a problem with the game. It seems to take about 20 minutes to load a map. My HDD access lights stop, and the game basically freezes. At this time, I am also unable to alt-tab out. Once the map loads, the game plays fine. However, the second map I play won’t load at all. I have to quit and reopen the game. Of course, this makes it so I don’t play very often. I don’t know what’s causing this glitch.

Seeing how excited Neverwinter Nights made Largo, I decided to give it a try. The last time I tried to play it was when Pierce (or one of his friends) gave me a copy. We were going to play it over summer a few years ago. It would always crash on my computer, but it works fine now. Neverwinter Nights totally blows away Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn.
First off, even for a game that’s a few years old, the graphics and sound are amazing. There’s great control of the camera, and most everything looks superb. That sound effects are great, and many dialogues have audio along with them. However, BG2:SoA didn’t lack in these areas. The gameplay was what sucked in that game. Well, it’s great in Neverwinter Nights. You can move your character via mouse or keyboard. The menu-driven abilities are very intuitive. The camera is moved by moving the mouse while holding down the scroll-wheel button. This is only annoying if you’re used to using the right mouse button for that… say… from RO >_> A lot of the attacking is automatic once battle is iniative. Most importantly to me, party members aren’t dumb fucks. They’re productive in battle. When I played BG2:SoA, switching characters was annoying to tell each and every person what to do. This isn’t so in NWN. So far, the plot has been very intriguing too. Okay, I’m going back to it now.

I’ve always sort of liked Baldur’s Gate II Shadows of Amn but also sort of hated it. I wanted to play an RPG, but I could never get into it. However, I recently played Baldur’s Gate Dark Alliance on PS2, and the game is awesome. It reminds me a lot of the Diablo series. It has a great plot (so it seems), tons of character development, easy to learn control and character system, and superb game play. I definitely want to play more of this game. There’s a second one that should be the same engine.

I started playing GunBound the other day. The game’s really addicting. Basically, you move little tanks, called mobiles) left and right, pick the angle to fire at, and decide on the strength of the shot. There are power-ups you can use, and as you earn money, you can buy new items for your avatar, which help you in battle. There are four game modes – Solo, Score, Tag, and Jewel. In all four modes, the game is played with two teams. In Solo, each player has one life. In Score, each team has 5 lives. In Tag, you can use multiple mobiles. In Jewel, you shoot at little “jewels” rather than enemy mobiles. I prefer Jewel because many low level people get confused and don’t know how to play. One can really rack up GP in Jewel mode if one understands the mode.

GunBound seems to be filled with immature people. I know every game is, but this game is filled even more than others. I guess this is due to the ease of learning to play.
I’ve only started playing Azure Dreams again. I’m glad the ePSXe runs so well. It’s like having my Playstation working again… only better because it’s my computer. I plan on trying to get through Thousand Arms again, too. Hopefully this time I won’t get tired of them. And if I do, it’s easier to keep save files.