• 22Oct 08

  Personal Update: Far Cry 2!

  Finally, I got my hands on a copy of Far Cry 2! My full review will be up as soon as I can get myself through the single player campaign, which is gonna be a real time killer. Before you need to ask yourself anything, you really should buy it, at least from my first impressions. The game is absolutely drop dead gorgeous...

  [UPDATE] Hour 3: 4% Completion on Single Player: The Single Player is amazing, really. It feels like FPS Grand Theft Auto in the way you can just roam around. The voice acting is a little too fast and it's kind of annoying, but the combat and driving are solid and actually remarkable on the latter. Multiplayer I have barely touched; haven't got a game going and I won't write a review until I do, but the map editor is robust and fairly easy to get going. I can see definite potential in this one. By Day 3 or so I should have the entire review going, but that's a mere estimate. I have barely scratched the surface, as you can tell.

  • Posted Oct 22, 2008 1:16 pm PT
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• 10Oct 08

  Making Headlines: Halo 3 Recon

  Welcome to Making Headlines, where I (FrostyMD) give you my take on current events in the videogame world. (Words that I type in bold are terms that you should be familiar with to understand what I'm talking about. If you don't know what the words mean, then it's time for Google.)

  Early in the month, Bungie released a teaser trailer for a project entitled Halo 3: Recon. I decided of course not to comment, because nobody can every truly speculate correctly on a Bungie project.

  Well, it appears as thought they're really blowing the lid off of this one quick. Already we know about the new game's setting, protagonist, and multiplayer. I'm happy to hear that they're switching things up for the single player campaign; Halo 3's campaign was a little too dry and repetitive for multiple playthroughs, and hopefully the new gamplay changes will make for more than just some standard DLC.

  The multiplayer, Halo's shining star, is returning in full force. According to a mysteriously vague post on Xbox.com, the simultaneously lauded and complained-about Forge mode will be overhauled in at least some way. Bots...weather...even a true map editor? At this point even speculation would be bone-headed; there's just nothing to work with.

  Of course, as more information pours in I'll be sure to give you my two cents. But for know, Recon remains a far-off, tantilizing mystery and hopefully a worthy expansion to Halo. We're in uncharted waters here, at least for Bungie. (But that never stopped them before!)

  Once again, keep gaming my friends. 'Till the next time we speak.

  • Posted Oct 10, 2008 5:51 pm PT
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• 28Sep 08

  Personal Update: Holiday Games

  So today, I took a drive down to my local Best Buy and dropped down some money on pre orders. I haven't bought a game since Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 and I was feeling the addiction again.

  So I put down reservations on Call of Duty: World at War, Gears of War 2, and Far Cry 2; all games that I will review and have my opinion on for you guys within a week or two of their release.

  It had been a while since I had been in my Best Buy, and I was pleasantly suprised. The service was extremely helpful; when I learned that I couldn't get a copy of Gears 2 in a 'boxed' pre order, the young woman was kind enought to order it online, and have it shipped to my business adress free of charge because I took the time to drive out to them. It really helped restore a little of my faith in the franchise, especially after they botched my order for Halo 3. (Which is a long story for another time).

  Anyway, that's enough of your time that I've wasted. Keep gaming!

  • Posted Sep 28, 2008 3:51 pm PT
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