I have been obsessed withRiverleap. The game was free on iTunes this weekend, and it is amazing. It’s not actually very good, considering the graphics are weird and confusing, the gameplay is based on pure luck and death comes frequently, yet there’s something intangibly wonderful about it. Very weird, very Southern, very fun, even though it shouldn’t be.
Other games were played. Check ’em out after the jump.
Holmes:PlayedUncharted 2for a few hours, I don’t think I’ll ever finish it. Ended up playingNo More Heroes 2again instead, which I just got back from a friend. What a great game.
And just before writing this, I got home from Gamestop withMonster Hunter Tri,Pikmin New Play Control,Alone in the Dark, andCounter Force, all on the Wii, and all for less than $100. Shopping for Wii games can provide the same mix of fun and trouble as buying mysterious, potentially rancid off-brand penny-candy, the kind you’re able to only find in family run candy stores. You never know what the hell this stuff is going to taste like, and the fact that it might kill you actually ads to the fun.
Also played a bunch of other crap, but I can’t remember what at the moment.
Carnage:Killing “Army Of Deuce” And my girlfriend is rocking Aion!
Chester:Been traveling a bit leading up to E3, and playing fewer games than usual, but seeing quite a few. Can’t talk about many, but Bethesda had us out to Las Vegas to check out their line-up, and you can probably guess what they showed us. More on that next week.
Also received preview code of Obsidian’sAlpha Protocol, and more on that later (again, can’t talk about it just yet).
Outside of that, I played a bit ofPlants vs. Zombies HDon the iPad during my travels. It’s, as expected, pretty great on the iPad, with crisp visuals and gameplay that lends itself really well to the big touch screen.
Ross:MostlySuper Street Fighter IV, with a tiny break to try out The Passing inLeft 4 Dead 2.
Sterling:Loads of stuff on my iPod.NOVAhas been a mainstay, along withDoom II RPG,Chaos Rings,Riverleapand a load of other stuff. Also played plenty of “The Passing” inLeft 4 Dead 2. Great little campaign, although as usual, the promised story elements were a little disappointing. It just felt like the original survivors barely mattered at all. Still, a tight campaign with some great Versus play.
Sarkar:I finally started up the single-player campaign ofBattlefield: Bad Company 2after spending over 45 hours playing multiplayer. The story is a pretty poor excuse for B-Company to go on an adventure, but I’m actually enjoying the experience so far (I’m almost done with it). I also played moreMLB 2K10— my created player had a perfect game going through six innings before it got broken up with a single in the seventh!
On Wednesday, I went to an EA Sports press event in New York City, where I saw/playedMadden NFL 11(preview coming tomorrow morning),NCAA Football 11,Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11on the Wii (there’s mini-golf this year!),NBA Jam(holycrap, is that fun!), andEA Sports Active 2.0. Good times!
Razak:Deadly Premonition.
Life complete.
Zimmerman:I still haven’t overcome my inability to stay awake playingDeadly Premonition, so my progress is still creeping along very slowly. Used the PS3 a bit this weekend, playing some Minis and PSN titles.Monsters (probably) Stole My Princess —which I downloaded on Y0j1mb0’s advice — is a phenomenal value at $4.99, provided you like arcade-style platformers with an emphasis on doing perfect runs. Very addictive and fun.
Tolentino:I finally broke down and bought a wired Xbox 360 controller to use with some of my more console-ish PC games. The PS3 fanboy within me is howling with rage, but hey, it’s Sony’s fault that they don’t write device drivers for their controllers.
And with that controller I’ve been playingJust Cause 2. It’s so much fun, I have to heavily regulate myself to keep from burning out on all that content.
Aziz:We just played Monster Hunter Tri for the last 12 hours straight. It’s 3:30 PM and I just woke up from all that shit.
