Sadly the video-gaming fairy didn’t visit me this week to bestow me with lots of spare time so once again all I’ve managed are a couple of sessions of Mass Effect 3’s multiplayer with some friends. Despite my doubts and concerns about ME3’s multiplayer it’s surprisingly good fun with a group of friends working together. The abuse starts flying when we don’t though…
Skyrim’s Dawnguard expansion has been driving Peter batty. He’s been flitting between the two branches of the story and ultimately found it “quite enjoyable but not really large or different enough to make it essential”. He’s also been playing Gravity Rush on his PS Vita having first managed to unlock the bronze trophy Find A PS Vita Charger.
Speaking of trophies, a dual platinum quest has seen Josh restarting both L.A. Noire and Uncharted 3. Treasure hunting in Crushing mode doesn’t sound like my idea of fun but then again neither does trying to perfect cases where you need to guess whether an imperfect digital character is lying or if it’s just a graphical glitch.
[drop2]Aran’s been bargain hunting and managed to get hold of a cheap copy of the Assassin’s Creed: Revelations Collector’s Edition. He’s only dabbled with that free-running murder sim but is enjoying it so far. When not swan diving off buildings, he’s been kicking Covenant ass in Halo 3 which “looks good and plays well”.Returning to some older games brought the sudden realization to Alex that save games aren’t immune to PS3 death. So he found himself starting LittleBigPlanet 2, Gran Turismo 5 and Portal 2 from scratch. “Gutting”, he says, “but also somewhat liberating”. Forewarned is forearmed they say so he “knew what I’d have to get through to get to the Community section, to buy a decent car, to unlock the director’s commentary, but it was still a relatively pleasant ride knowing the bits I could fast forward.”
How were the restarted games then? “LBP 2’s still brilliant, of course, GT5’s still a horrible grind through nasty UI and dodgy graphics and Portal 2’s still sublime.”
Despite having been “entirely” put off by the multiplayer beta, Jim has played through SOCOM 4: Special Forces. He says the multiplayer remains unconvincing, though the strength of the co-op and campaign somewhat make up for it as does the “accurate PS Move integration”. Because one FPS is never enough, he also played Spec Ops: The Line which improved following a “dull opening”.
He’s had “a good romp” through Rayman: Origins on the PS Vita. Although he found it a “little repetitive and bare-boned” at times, he enjoyed it enough to see it through and adds that “the music is fantastic”. Aside from those he’s played Wrath of Heroes, Magic 2013, the Wii remake of Fatal Frame 2 and The Secret World.
Lastly this week I’ll let Kris tell you about his terrible rash lizards.
Oh man I’ve been playing Warpath: Jurassic Park. It’s amazing. AMAZING. So, on Monday it was my birthday and this meant I watched Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park; I assume everyone does this. I mean why wouldn’t you? There are dinosaurs in it, and the T-Rex busts out of his fences and Site B and WHY WOULD YOU BRING A T-REX TO SAN DIEGO? Also who kills the crew on the boat?
Anyway, I decided to buy some of the games. I’ve played The Lost World: Jurassic Park on the Game Boy way back when, but not much since. This leads me to Warpath: Jurassic Park.
So imagine a fighting game, but instead of humans, who are weak and fragile, you have dinosaurs and they bite each other and slash with claws, that kind of thing? Are you imagining it? Because you should be, it’s awesome.
Warpath lives up to that picture, and once you get used to some slightly clumsy controls (although it’s a PS1 game and going by memory it actually feels about right for games of the time) it’s great. Dinos have their own unique move set, and, in general, the relative sizing is about right.
They even handle how you’d expect: the Raptor is quick and agile, the T-Rex is slow and chomps you a lot and there’s an Ankylosaurus that smashes you with it’s tail – it’s great. They’ve gone so far that dinosaurs have their own stages, and there are destructible environments and environmental damage.
For a game that could be terrible, it’s actually surprisingly competent. If you like dinosaurs and fighting games then you can pick it up pretty cheap second hand (I got it for about £2).
I also learned about a new dinosaur called the Gigantosaurus, which is my new favourite dinosaur name; it really gets over what it needs to. It must have been kind of a bummer for Rodolfo Coria and Leonardo Salgado, who named it, that it’s not actually the biggest land carnivore, although it comes close. With a name like Gigantosaurus you really do want to be the biggest though don’t you?
Now I’m just waiting on the home console version of The Lost World: Jurassic Park to arrive, which I’ve heard is a special kind of awful. Hopefully I’ll report back next week.
I’d say it’s a pretty poor show for a dinosaur fan to have made the layman’s mistake of confusing the Giganotosaurus with the Gigantosaurus, but he’s only young bless him. [Curses! – Ed] Somebody find him a dancing game.
Assuming you’re sufficiently well-versed in dinosaur lore to be up to date with the latest scientific thinking on whether Iguanadons were bipedal or quadrupedal you’ll have had plenty of time for gaming. That being the case what have you played?
stueeeee
Well I’m making my way through Metal Gear again on the Via, reluctantly buying it for vita off amazon after they put the PSN price up. Am on Snake Eater. Have the Ratchet trilogy on standby, an Deux Ex slowly downloading….
fs
Where did you get the Collecters Edition of Revelation? I’ve been looking at this ‘Ottoman Edition’ but can’t seem to get hold of it from any reliable sources.
Thanks.
tactical20
I got mine in Tesco for £15!
fs
You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.
Good Day Sir.
The Lone Steven
I started a new character on Skyrim this week. A bosmer. He fufills the Assassain class from previous games. Also started DE:HR. Playing it the stealthy way and trying to avoid killing anyone if i can help it. Nearly completed the first quarter of it and just tying up the remaining quests in Detroit before leaving for china. :)
Forrest_01
This week has seen a bit of Max Payne on Monday (where i finally won a wager!), & apart from a bit of Sniper Elite V2 last night (which I still seem to be pretty atrocious at & keep forgetting that it doesn’t save if you don’t complete the level!) the rest of the week was pretty much just Spiderman & Lego Batman.
Really enjoying the latter two as it goes, just haven’t gotten very far through them.
R1MJAW
Pretty much just Amazing Spiderman this week. Got the platinum 2 days ago, which ended up as a race between me and Del to see who would get it first … I won by 9 minutes.
Rocket_345
Finished Spiderman which was better than i thought. Couldn’t plat it though as it was only a rental. Also a bit of Ratchet & Clank and MW3 thrown in.
tactical20
I played Red Faction Armageddon after picking it up on PS3 for a fiver. Although the story was dire and it wasn’t exactly the most original of games, I still found it pretty enjoyable. Think the reviews were generally a bit harsh on this one, but for a fiver, it’s definitely worth a play through.
allan_treebeard
One of my friends finally cracked and bought a PS3 so been a lot of gaming round his which mostly involved Uncharted 3 and Journey.
For me its been more of Darksiders, which is still pretty good, just got around to getting Ruin which was uber cool.
Also just started Deus Ex: Human Revolution which is all kinds of awesome, not far into it at the moment but i can see it gettting really good.
Aside from that, I’ve been trying play all the PS+ games that I’ve got over the past year at least once. That means playing some godawful games like Skyfighter, Richochet HD and Majhong tales but also some surprisingly good ones that I never would have played like Hamster Ball, Shank 2 and Crash Commando.
Forrest_01
Do you really have a tree for a beard?
If so, i think we need to talk. :)
colmshan1990
I’ve done of a week of playing Metal Gear Solid 2, beating it, and starting it again.
On the Vita.
Nothing else, except for half an hour of Modnation Racers this morning on Vita again.
blast71
Borderlands, pes2012 master league, limbo & singularity.
Limbo is the 1st game that i’ve had 2 youtube every 10 minutes, frustrating but enjoyable.(hate cheating as i feel a bit guilty, but i’m getting worse at gaming as i get older)