This week in gaming
Posted on November 17, 2005 in Games
I tried out a few games over the last weeks:
I tried out Resident Evil 4 for a few hours when I got it and it’s a brilliant game, one of the best for the PS2 so far. The control scheme has been changed a bit from previous games and the camera has been moved to a behind view. You star as Leon Kennedy returning from Resident Evil 2 where he was a cop in Raccoon City but quit after the T-Virus outbreak there. After his trouble there he has now moved on to working for a task force put together to protect the President and on his first assignment he is sent into unknown location in Europe to rescue the President’s daughter who has just been kidnapped. When he gets there he finds the local people to be insane and attacking him for no reason and bent on killing him. The game doesn’t revolve around pure zombies this time around and it seems most of the people have been drugged with some kind of parasites that turn them into monsters bent on destroying you. So now Leon must rescue the President’s daughter and get out alive before being bludgeoned to death by crazed villagers or risk being infected in the same way they are.
Rating: 5/5
Secondly I tried out the new Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe game based on C.S. Lewis’s fantastic novel. I only played the game for about half an hour since it seemed to skip quickly through the pre-Narnia story and it seems you really can’t enjoy the game unless you’ve seen the movie or read the book recently. The game is a action adventure game where you control the four siblings Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie on their journey through Narnia. Each character has various special combat abilities that must be used to overcome certain obstacles. The game seems pretty fun but the story is really lacking.
Rating: 2/5
Yesterday I spend an hour and half trying out the X-Box port of Half-Life 2. The game turned out really well, the graphics looked beautiful on the 42″ Plasma and the gameplay is really great, it’s pretty easy to control even though I’m not a big fan of FPSes on consoles. The story revolves around the return of Gordon Freedman, where the game picks up the story a few years after the story of the first Half-Life. Freedman returns to a Earth that has been taken over by aliens which control the population through a human puppet. Now Freedman must fight to save the planet once more from evil aliens bent on enslaving mankind. The game is seriously fast paced and you really get sucked into the action and it’s a thrill ride all the way.
Rating: 4/5
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