If you’ve learned anything about me during my last year here at the ‘Toid, it’s that I constantly fantasize about the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Between my root cellar stocked with canned foods and deadly projectile weapons to my three-story personal library full of reference material — cue Max Brooks namedropping — on the subject, I’d like to think I’m well prepared for the day when Hell is finally full and the dead once again roam the Earth.
However, I realize that not all of you share my passion for completely fictional scenarios, and honestly I don’t want to have to pull your asses out of the fire when shambling corpses come a-knockin’. So, with the help of my new BFF Dan Marshall, I present to you the culmination of his life’s work, the above film: How To Survive A Zombie Apocalypse .
We do what we must because we can.
Leigh Alexander: PORTAL . The end.
Oh yeah, and Dawn of Sorrow, Innocent Life, Symphony of the Night, Sonic 2 , and the text adventures of the 2007 Interactive Fiction Competition.
Nex: Portal (greatest ending ever) and Episode 2 (greatest ending since Portal ), Team Fortress 2 has taken over my life. The first online game I was ever massively addicted to was Team Fortress Classic , and the art style and additions made to TF2 easily make it the finest multiplayer FPS available.
I do miss the grenades though. Gas grenades and those spinning, nail-shooting things the soldiers carried were like finding a finger in your can of Pepsi; only the finger is made of gold, and it scratches your back whenever you have an itch.
Jim Sterling: Fable . Can you believe I never played it before? It’s okay, save for piss-poor targeting and a more linear feel than I’d hoped for. Still, not too shabby.
Savant: The Halos (yeah, all 3 of ’em!), Puzzle Quest on XBLA, and some skate. here and there. Most importantly though, is that I’ve rediscovered the joys of PC gaming with my newly-acquired beta account for Hellgate: London . I can’t really say much due to NDA, but I can say that this is going to be one excellent title when it is completely polished.
BlindsideDork: The Orange Box is teh sex.MGS4, Silent Hill: Origins, FF Crystal Chronicles DS , and anything else I can play from the scant selection at E for All.
Faith: Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions, The Orange Box,The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Brain Age . I’ve also been playing around with the trial version of Puzzle Quest . What a great game idea! Motorstorm . Other than that, it’s been about toying around with Final Fantasy XII , and continuing with the Halo 3 thing. I think that about covers it. My thoughts? The PS3 hardware seems nice (and better made than Microsoft’s piece of shit), but the online interface is nothing short of a joke. How obvious it is to all of us which company specializes in hardware, and which is the software giant.
Dick McVengeance: Dynasty Warriors Gundam in the mail, and so that’ll be collecting dust until I get through Soul Nomad and the World Eaters . It’s just too much fun. Besides that, I’ll be getting into Scourge: Hive pretty soon.
Topher Cantler: Beautiful Katamari is not so beautiful.
.tiff: Portal until I find the easter egg that forces GlaDOS to be my HeteRobo partner for life.
David Houghton: Half-Life 2 and plowing through Episode 1 before I start Episode 2 this week. I’ve also had a staggering good time with the droplet of purest goodness that is Portal (Those turret guns are health-damagingly cute. I want one!). It’s just as much fun messing around with the physics as it is actually completing tasks and I love it to pieces. Other than that it’s been a bit of the Unreal Tournament 3 demo, which actually runs surprisingly well on my PC. *praises various things*Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on PS for old time’s sake. I also got totally destroyed in Tetris Attack by Dale North, puzzle game player extraordinaire.
Nick Chester: Half Life 2: Episode Two; Flatout: Ultimate Carnage; Mercury Meltdown: Revolution . That is all.
Chad Concelmo: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Super Mario Galaxy, Advance Wars: Day of Ruin , and, of course, Super Smash Bros. Brawl . But the best game I played — not only this week, but in a long time — was Buzz Lightyear’s Astro Blasters at Disneyland. It was epic.
Ron Workman:
Dyson: Beautiful Katamari and have been delving into that as of today. I finally beat Phantom Hourglass last weekend, which now gives me time for the other games on my to play list. Some of which include, The original Half-Life, Siren for PS2, Beyond Good and Evil , and more BioShock . Yes, I still haven’t finished BioShock . Look, I work. Halo 3 , the Guitar Hero 3 demo, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life 2 , and I also beat Portal again.
What did you play this week?
