After a few months where I felt like I had to look hard for games I wanted to play, I suddenly find myself knee-deep in a vertiable corncucopia of games I’m excited about. Too many, in fact, as there’s no way I have time to play them as much as I’d like. Right now I’ve got:
- Splinter Cell: Double Agent (360) - Fantastic stealth game with a story I’m actually interested in. I’m playing on the default difficulty setting and it’s still hard.
I also end up getting obsessed with getting high stealth ratings, so I end up repeating parts of some levels many, many times to find a way to do what I have to do without getting caught. The AI is reasonably intelligent too, which means that there are some slightly emergent elements to the tactics you have to use, at times. (At other times, it’s quite linear, but presented so well I don’t mind.) - Guitar Hero II (PS2)- I think I’ve said enough about this.
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (360) - This baby’s a rental as I doubt I’ll feel compelled to play it more than 6-8 hours, but I have a soft spot for the Marvel universe and this has gotten pretty good reviews considering the fairly mindless beat-em-up nature of the game.
- Gears of War (360) - I picked this up today after seeing that it’s gotten nearly universally excellent reviews. I haven’t played it as of writing this post, but I’ve got an appointment with a friend to start playing the co-operative game on Xbox Live together. I am very happy to see that it included online co-op. I almost always prefer to play co-operatively vs. NPCs rather than PvP these days (except in MUDs, where I prefer PvP), so this is exciting.
And then, coming up later this month, I’m going to be playing:
- Rainbow Six: Las Vegas (360). I loved Rainbow Six 3 and played it a ton co-op vs. NPCs with various friends via XBL. Really looking forward to a similar experience here, since Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter was a real disappointment for us co-op (only like 4 missions available).
- Sonic the Hedgehog (360). Pure nostalgia play here, but my nostalgia for it was never as strong as Mario, for obvious reasons. Probably a renter.
- Zelda: The Twilight Princess (Wii). Aw yeah. I was among the people disappointed with Wind Waker, and I am dying to see if Nintendo pulls this one off. Go Miyamoto.
That’s seven games in a month. That’s the kind of trouble I want to have! I’ll be playing these games for months, nevermind whatever games come out pre-Xmas in December.
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November 9th, 2006 at 7:18 am
Pentharian
I’m pondering getting Gears of War, so let us know how that goes.
I’m honestly excited about FFIII being re-released on DS, as well as Zelda:Phantom Hourglass, even though it’s the sequel to WW.
Not to mention that Supreme Commander should be coming out soon. I spent countless hours playing Total Annihilation, the mother of all RTS, and this is the spiritual successor. They have such a crazy scale on it, the big big mech units will actually crush ground troops under their feet.
November 9th, 2006 at 9:38 am
Matt
I just hope my computer can run Supreme Commander. Like you, I am pretty psyched about it.
Gears of War is a bit ‘meh’ so far, but I have only played for an hour or so.
November 9th, 2006 at 11:13 am
Kyle
I was displeased with MUA. I loved the X-Men Legends games and MUA did improve on alot of things which was great but I couldn’t get behind the cast. I love the Marvel universe and it was great that I could play my 4 favorite characters, Wolverine, Spider-man, Deadpool and Iron man but the rest of the cast was sort of “meh” and the Villans were like the bottom of the barrel to me. but then again you can’t get much worse than Apocolypse in the Marvel universe. The cut sceanes were great as well just like the last two games next time around I want more and longer just like that!
Guitar Hero 2, right up there with you on that one.
Same with Supream Commander. It looks like exactly what I want from a RTS
As for the others I’m not a huge fan of shooters or spy games, mostly because I suck at them.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
Ronald Watts
I’m buying a Gamecube and WindWalker. I hope it isn’t as disapointing as you make out.
I saw Twilight Princess on X-Play yesterday, and I love the look of it. One of my fave things on UO was fishing, I do a lot of fishing on Imperian, and Fishing is my highest skill on Runescape.. So I loved the look of the fishing for the Zelda game with the Wii controller.
If I had the money, I would buy a Wii, but I’ll probably need to wait a year or two before the price comes down.