Well silly season is done and dusted for another year and I can find time to write again. I hope you all had a good time and got what you wanted from jolly ole St Nick. I know I did!
This year was the first year my hobby was truly realised by my family and that is all because of my wonderful wife who organised what my family were getting me. Here is the run-down of my gaming related presents for Xmas and birthday:
Enslaved (birthday)
Dead Rising 2 (birthday)
WWE Smackdown S Raw (birthday)
Singularity (birthday)
Borderlands (birthday)
God of War 3 (Xmas)
Heavy Rain (Xmas)
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (Xmas)
Zone of The Enders: The Second Runner (Xmas)
A gaming chair with built in surround sound and rumble features
A £20 voucher for game
I now have more games then ever to play. I have so many games I don't know what to play! The other night it got so bad I almost decided to watch a film and got to bed early!
Talking of my games to play stack Assassin's Creed Brotherhood has been finished and all I can say is WTF! The ending is a massive cliffhanger and I cant wait for number 3. My score for AC:Brotherhood will be a 9/10.
Next I started on Enslaved: Odyssey to The West. For those of you who don't know about this game let me fill you in.
Enslaved is a reworking of Journey to The West, one of China's four great classical novels. Most of you will probably know Journey to The West as Monkey!
Enslaved puts a new twist on this tale by setting it in a post apocalyptic America. The story was written by Alex Garland of The Beach and 28 Days Later fame and Andy Serkis of Golem fame was on hand to Mo Cap the acting. These two elements make the cut scenes in Enslaved some of the best I've ever seen. The game wasn't long but was still enjoyable, the only real thing that let it down was the climbing. Having just finished AC:Brotherhood with it finely tuned running, jumping and climbing skills, Enslaved felt slow and clunky. But after awhile I got so engrossed in the story I didn't even notice it any more. My score for Enslaved is 8.5/10.
With Enslaved done I started trying out a couple of the other games I have.
I had a brief go on Singularity. Singularity was completely overlooked on release due to the fact that Activision didn't bother promoting it due to it not being COD! I only played it for about 10mins but I'm really looking forward to play it.
Next I started to flit between WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011 and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. Hot Pursuit is very enjoyable and when I gave it my full attention I know its gonna suck me in. The new Autolog feature makes this game so competitive. Autolog reminds me a little bit of Facebook what with its speed wall and comments but instead of puerile gossip it shows you who out of your friends is better than you, making you want to smash their scores.
Smackdown has always been one of my favorite games. This new one is good but the magic is missing but thats not the games fault. The magic is missing because my friends are missing. Years ago back in the PS2 era when Smackdown was just Smackdown, no vs Raw, there were 3 of us who would play this game regualary. We had all made our own wrestlers and would carry our memory cards with us whenever we met up. There was always competition to make the best looking character with a good gimmick and brilliant moves. Then we would fight till the early hours of the morning. Nowadays I don't see those friends. I suppose there is always the online element of the game but it just doesn't have that sparkle. If anyone reading this (if there is anyone reading this) plays smackdown and would like a match or swap creations add me. My PSN name is whatever_man. Just let me know where you got my name.
