I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1N IT!!!1 is easily the best dollar I have ever spent. It’s available on the Indie Games Channel of Xbox Live right now and if you haven’t played it yet, you are missing out on a genuinely funny experience that mocks the current oversaturation of zombie games. Please give Ska Studios money for this genius. It’s a mere dollar. You can’t go wrong!
Speaking of dollars, we played videogames this week. Most of the staff (who I now despise) were at PAX, having fun while I was sick and dying of what must obviously be a form of AIDS-cancer. While I suffered, they had loads of merriment and had sex with each other. I hate them. Hit the jump to find out what was played.
Cantler: I’ve been playing lots of Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Super Puzzle Fighter. I’m sure you are all quite shocked. Also some Puzzle Bobble on DS, whatever the new one is called, which doesn’t matter because at the end of the day it’s f*cking Puzzle Bobble. Let’s see, what else … I played the Wet demo, which I didn’t like very much, some MvC2, some Espgaluda as a rain dance for more Cave games, a little Ikaruga here and there, and uh … maybe a few episodes of Mainichi Issho. That’s about it.
Razak: All I played was Metroid Prime and some Professor Layton. I also went back and played through some Flower, Sun and Rain for my review. Not much of a gaming week for me.
Chester: I finally had a chance to play Left 4 Dead 2 at PAX this weekend, and can confirm that not only is it a warranted sequel, but it’s every bit as amazing as I had expected. While there aren’t any major changes to the core gameplay, blowing off zombie limbs and watching them roll down hills into swamps doesn’t seem like it’ll get old anytime soon. The new infected are pretty surprising, particular the Jockey who thought it was my backpack the whole time.
Also played Darksiders, EyePet, 4-player split-screen Blur (awesome fun), Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, and Split/Second. Surprisingly didn’t play a lot of the stuff on the show floor (a lot we had seen at E3), but had a good time nonetheless.
Sterling: I want EyePet like woah.
Anyway, I’ve been playing a bucketload of shit this week. People think playing games for a job is brilliant, and it often is, but on a week where you’re playing Raven Squad and Darkest of Days, you realize that life isn’t always peaches and cream. Sometimes it’s piss and anus. Also been playing Section 8, which is good, but not worth getting out of bed for. And I have been in bed a lot this week, because I am sick as fuck.
At least one good game happened this week. I downloaded the trial of I Made A Game With Zombies In It (I cannot be bothered to do the l33t spelling) and instantly purchased it the moment the trial game expired. Best dollar anybody could ever spend on games. I love how the music reaches “Black Parade” levels of ludicrous by the end. It’s worth playing just for the amazing soundtrack. Brilliant game, and everyone with a 360 should play it.
Bennett: On the PAX show floor, I played Bayonetta, Diablo 3, Borderlands, and off it I checked out Blur and Critter Crunch. Loved everything I played, really can’t wait to get my hands on these games once they finally come out. On the flight to PAX, I played a lot of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, which I find myself now kind of enjoying.
Niero: I am loving Shank on not the dreamcast.
Holmes: The big purchase for me this week the RPG-ist beat ’em up Muramasa: The Demon Blade, which has completely taken the place of the relatively disappointing RPG-ish fighter Final Fantasy:Dissidia that I got the week before. Comparing the two games made me really want for Vanillaware to take on a big name IP like Final Fantasy. Dissidia would have been so much better if it looked nad played like Muramasa. Also played some Bit.Trip Beat/Core and No More Heroes and pretended that they were Bit.Trip Void and No More Heroes 2. I’m so jealous of you sexy jerks living it up at PAX right now.
Other than that, finished up the Metroid Prime Trilogy and played my regular portions of Animal Crossing: City Folk and Game Center CX 2.
