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Now Playing: Fallout: New Vegas

Submitted by Andrea on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 12:45

 

If I was going to play Fallout: New Vegas, I was going to have to do it now. When speaking of just overall performance and graphical output, Skyrim – a game I have yet to play - is far superior to the brown, buggy and sluggish performance of both Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. I imagine the transition from Skyrim to New Vegas being the equivalent of sleeping on a mattress, to sleeping a solid wood floor.

While being completely aware of the situation, I somewhat forcefully adventured, again, through the post apocalyptic wastelands of the Fallout universe.  Although I thoroughly enjoyed exploring the wasteland the first time around, the reality of the Vaults and the desolation between cities has settled in firmly, leaving me comfortable with my surroundings, not foreign like in Fallout 3. My curiosity still overpowers me when passing by an unexplored, vacant neighborhood of houses. The idea of what treasures could be hidden away is more than enough incentive to steer me away from my main goal.

Now Playing: Split/Second

Submitted by Andrea on Mon, 03/07/2011 - 15:42

I haven’t written something in a while, probably because I was slacking, but let’s shift blame towards a lot of writing assignments in school. In my free time I am continuing to play some games, most notably Fallout 3 and Split/Second. There is a feature I want to write relating to Fallout 3, which just happens to be one of the assignments I’m planning to hand in as the due date approaches. Since I’ve finished Fallout 3, I’ve been playing Split/Second, a game part of a genre I usually pay very little attention to. There was a multiplayer demo released a few months back, and I remembered how much I enjoyed it which leads to my purchase of it during a 15% off sale at Best Buy.

Now Playing: Tomb Raider Underworld

Submitted by Andrea on Wed, 12/08/2010 - 21:28

By chance, Best Buy dropped the price of Tomb Raider Underworld to $9.99, and information about a Tomb Raider reboot was revealed in an upcoming January edition of Game Informer on the same day. This provided a perfect opportunity to see what the Tomb Raider franchise is about, so I wouldn’t feel left out of the group if the reboot is a huge success.

Now Playing: inFamous

Submitted by Andrea on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 11:18

After Canada’s first Black Friday event, I sifted through the lot of so called “deals” and found inFamous for only $15. An hour in, I wasn’t enthused about the comic book method used for telling the story, since it created a detachment from the game world.

Now Playing: Shadow Complex

Submitted by Andrea on Sun, 06/20/2010 - 16:30

During the week of E3, Shadow Complex along with other XBLA titles was half off their original price, which was more than enough of a reason to spend some Microsoft points. Shadow Complex was unanimously described as an excellent game for its value, so I was interested in playing through it to see if I would agree with that statement.

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