Finaly up to my “what i’ve been playing” segment

This week i’ve played

HALF LIFE 2 episode 1

TEAM FORTRESS 2

UNCHARTED drakes fortune

also i’ll talk a bit about steam.

HALF LIFE2e1; PC, PS3, 360

Created by VALVe Half life 2e1 takes place after half life2 but i’m sure you all knew that. I have notplayed the first half life but i have watched all of it and i haven’t played half life 2 yet and I plan to when I pick up the orange box.

Anyway egnough about that. now i’m not very far into it, at least i don’t think i am, but i am enjoying it. one of my little anoyance is that you have to make sure you constantly have to save and reload. apart from that i have no qualms with the game, the loading times are long but thats also partly due to the fact that i’m playing on a laptop.

TEAM FORTRESS 2; PC PS3, 360

Created by VALVe TF2 looks amazing, the cartoony art style looks realy good. acording to steam i’ve played 3 hours but my in game class times indicate that iv’e only played about two leading me to my major problem.

Now don’t get me wrong i do love TF2 especialy the engineir, but the loading time for servers is atroucious, maybey it’s because i’m throteled but steam has encountered several erors whilst im playing. servers boot me and it anoys me. several times i have been unable to join matches or even launch tf2 because of mysterious erors plauging my computer. Now atm i’m putting it down to my throttleage but i will be anoyed if these problems continue.

Now that that’s out of the way i can say. TF2 two thumbs up. great artstyle, great gameplay, well balanced ect. and it has a free weekend on atm

UNCHARTED; PS3

Naughty dog is one of 5 PS3 exclusive game designers that people actualy care about. and Uncharted is naughty dogs new child, and well they’ve done it again. it looks stunning, and my tv isn’t even HD, yet…

The game feels smooth and plays well, but not well right after Resident evil 4. trust me. There’s alot of replay which is exactly what i pan to do. i haven’t had the game for long but i’m up to the second last chapter so i recon i’m qualified to talk about it.

I probably will replay it, at least just to try and get some more trophies. I am borowing it off my friend, in return he got fallout 3 (see post 1), which i’m mr than happy to trade for this, superior (at least in my mind) game. whilst i am a sucker for a platformer I do have some small grivences. The path not being obvious, because there’s no real subtle way of putting it in. The hint being useless, usualy they just show you the direction you need to head or tell you what to d at the section just before the bit yoyu died at 10 times. The close combat being jenky. there is no reaseon (apart from tropies and mabey to conserve amo) to not shoot all you’re enimeis.

Uncharted has recived alot of flak for the combat system but i realy don’t mind it at all. I give it a thumbs up rent it, if you like it definetly buy it. If you have a PS3 you must play this game.

Thats all for this week, catch my next post next sunday

YOW