Day Late a Dollar Short!By Locke on February 5th, 2009
I recently got the RE5 Demo, as well as the FEAR 2 demo off of Xbox Live. It’s crazy how far Resident Evil has come, the graphics are amazing. Although trying to fiddle through your inventory in real-time is a real pain the backside, having a buddy to cover you is pretty nifty. The enemies are pretty much as smart as they were in RE4, so there are little surprises to see here. Story-wise, the demo left little clues to the plot. FEAR 2 was a definite winner in my book. The demo pretty much captures the vibe that FEAR gave us in the first place. Of course, the original FEAR was flawed due to the generic environments that you had to crawl through. Everything was pretty much either a sewer, a warehouse, or an office building of some kind. Within the first ten minutes you are forcefully tossed into the fray, keeping the same feeling of paranoia indefinitely rather than in hiccups like the previous game. Piloting the Mech was pretty sweet, leveling the competition with both your slow-mo reflexes and rocket launchers. Getting used to Medkits automatically applying themselves was kind of odd. In the old game, you had complete control over when you used the med-kits. In this game, if you are slightly lower on health, and you step over it, it will patch your wounds. Most of the time it was well deserved however. I’m happy with how Monolith reclaimed their IP, and it looks to be a solid game. I’m currently looking forward to some new DS games, I’ve been traveling quite a bit, but I haven’t had a good game in my cart since Professor Layton and the Curious Village. My girlfriend picked it up after she lent her intellect to help me solve some puzzles. Just as I was finishing the game, she asked if she could make her own save file. This was pretty exciting for me, since I can rarely ever find something for her to play on my DS. She’s also been following me around Azeroth, and is currently learning the ways of the Hunter. She just acquired her first pet, a Nightsaber named “Gumdrop”. So it looks like Locke finally got some customers in, albeit at the cost of some Epic Loot. Hopefully he can keep this streak of good luck going. Hopefully… Sorry I haven’t put out a review this week, I’ll be sure to write one on my recently recovered PS2 gem, “Odin Sphere”. See ya! Locke |