Games

Every week my University has this thing called Late Nite on Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays. Basically lots of events happen such as video games, movies, music etc. There's also discounts on things such as pool or ping pong during these hours.

Well I hadn't gone to Late Nite for a while and decided that I should go since I finally got an Engineering presentation over and I was feeling much less stressed.

First thing I did there was find Call of Duty 4 playing on a screen. I always knew I sucked at FPS games but one of my friends was playing so I decided to jump in. I have to say this game is pretty darn fun when four people are playing. We were playing team battle and I happened to be a terrorist. I was thinking "OMG I'm going to be such a terrible terrorist." I was actually playing against my friend who was a Marine on some map that looked like it belonged in Iraq. There was a game menu screen to choose your class of weapons and what not. Not knowing what was good I choose 'Survivor' or whatever it was called. The controls were alright. At first I thought I was gonna screw up a lot and the controls seemed hard. I couldn't even aim at first. But then I thought about the controls for a second and I got them. I think I played alright. I got a few kills and died a few times but the terrorists won! (not really a good thing but it happens) We played a few other matches involving Soviets and Marines which was good fun. I think I ran right into an air strike though. I learned from that mistake. I really like the aiming thing with the left trigger. It helped me get shots a lot.

Next I played pool which was fun because I was on a roll. A friend and I were losing at first, being behind like 5 balls. But then on one of the last turns (the other team had 1 ball + the 8 ball left) I sunk all the balls including the 8 ball and won the game! I was thrilled! I hadn't played in weeks but I was surprised how good I was through the night.

That was yesterday night. Today I went to the local mall today and found a Gamestop. (Actually strangely enough there are two Gamestops in one mall!). Anyways there was Mario Galaxy being displayd and I waited my turn to play it. All I can say is I had tons of fun playing the game. I only played the first 3 stars of the first universe but I had a great time. At first the controls felt weird, but they're very easy to get used to. Exploring the galaxy is really cool and running around small planets is great fun. My friend actually got this game and I really really want to play it! I came back later to play it but the nunchuck was messed up. It would go every direction except up and if you pressed up Mario would stay in place. If you let go, he walks off the platform...usually unplugging the controller and replugging it back in fixes it but I can't do that with the security stuff! (Actually it's physically impossible)

Next I found a few games that came with my video cards I bought earlier. I never got around to playing them so I decided to try some out.

Warcraft 3 is great fun...no explanation needed

Gunmetal (Yeti Studios 2005) is an interesting game. Kind of like a weird Transformers. You are a soldier in a new robot suit called "GunMetal" and it basically is a robot suit that can change into an airplane. The action is really fast paced, but the gameplay gets repetitive after a while. All you do is shoot things down. The controls are a bit hard to get used to...but they work ok.

Drakan is an old game about dragons and a lady trying to save a child from the orcs or something. I haven't played it much so I can't really comment on it.

A friend of mine picked up a PS3 and Rock Band on Friday. It looks like loads of fun but they won't let me play since they keep playing tour mode and I can't play hard mode. The reason he got the PS3 version is because his roommate already has a 360 and he wanted the game for himself.

I think that's all for now...