Games Keep Me Sane - Overview
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
This started out as one big post but it turned into an essay so I’m going to break them up into a few posts…
I’ve been pretty stressed out recently because most every waking moment has been banging my head against some sort of Flash thing. Either at work or personal projects or freelance or whatever. Crazy times. It’s one of those situations where any free time I have should really be spent working until this crap is done so any time spent relaxing is both needed but also must be skillfully crafted.
So shorter posts about games!
Bioshock:
I got to play an hour or so, which is sad.. Kind of annoyed by that, because it feels like it’s past my relevance now. The hype bubbled up and bubbled over and I haven’t been able to pick it up. I installed it both at home and at work, but played the first hour at work… so every time I am needing a break from work I have to make the decision to play something, and it’s never ‘replay the first hour of Bioshock.’ Stupid, but I’ll dig into it soon.
Glory Days 2 - This is a sequel to a game called Super Army War for the Advance. Glory Days 2 is for the DS and it solves all the problems the first game had. It also uses two screens so you can see what’s going on in the front lines. The game play actually works now and doesn’t feel like some fail flash game. You appear to alternate between the airplane and chopper, which play quite differently. It seems like the levels have one ‘gimmick’ that you need to overcome to beat it, I got stuck on one for a few trys but when I changed up my strat I managed to overcome the difficulties I was having.
The only odd thing about the game is the interstitial ’story.’ Before each level you read a letter sent home from a soldier away at war. The wars take place starting with WWI and moving into modern day war. The letters are very patriotic but seem to end, on the last level of each ‘era,’ with the usual “If you’re reading this, I’m dead.” kind of thing. Each character that progresses is somehow related to the previous one, as well. It’s very, very patriotic, for the sake of being patriotic. Other then that however, there’s no characters or anything, that’s the only real flavor to the game.
This also has I think up to 6 or 8 player multiplayer. I’ll never find 5 other people who have the game but I’d imagine it would be a blast with that many people. I’m just a sucker for multiplayer on the DS though.
