No Saves? No Mercy!!

Well I have decided, seeing as I have no saves from my old games any more, I am going to replay them and put them all up here, as well as any new games that I play. So I should have a good mix of content to put up (and if I don't have any new games it means I will still have content!).

Oil Crisis?

I have been playing Fuel lately, it is a pretty good game.

By "pretty good" I mean its very pretty if repetitive. The gameplay is quite good, standard racer style with a nice free roam feature. The map is massive! Impressively massive, only each area is not different enough to make it amazing.

The game also features a day/night cycle and changing weather effects. You could be driving along a night-time road and a wind could kick up, eventually turning into a tornado. While they are impressive they do not impact upon your game play experience in a negative way and just make the game even prettier.

The cars and bikes are fairly fun and the way you buy them is pretty unique, but it does take time. You need to either complete races or you can drive around the free roam world and collect fuel cannisters. There is a large collection of vehicles that become available for purchase as time goes on. Although saying that I've only used one bike so far, as it is fast, has a good top speed and handles on/off road very well. All the other vehicles I tested out seemed to be not quite as universal as the one bike I use. However it is very fun to drive around in a monster truck

All in all I'm enjoying it and the unique parts and how laid back the game play is keep me playing it. If you are into racing games I'd say give it a go and if not then give the demo a go.

Dragon Age?

Despite the lack of dragons this is an awesome game. The story is really good and I like how they give you a different beginning story depending on your race and such.

As i got into the game it was fairly quickly I picked up a magic weapon, I was quite surprised by this, but as the game went on I was less impressed. It wasn't until about the last stretch that I picked up a magic weapon that was in any way better than the beginner weapon I had gotten. I spent most of the game using standard weapons and armour.

I was a tad disgruntled that there was no class crossing over or dual classing but the classes and sub classes make up for it quite well, I played the majority of the game as a rogue/ranger and eventually chose duelist over assassin late game, only to realize that I had no points to put into any of its skills...

The way the party would resurrect after a battle if some members survived was a very good feature (I appreciate not having to go through a massive battle and gaining a small amount of loot just to have to spend it all on a raise dead spell) and one that often caught me out when relied on it to get me through a battle no problem (thank god for quicksave)

I would say that my favourite part was probably the circle of the magi, in the fade due to the sloth demon. I thoroughly enjoyed that part and actually loaded a save in order to go back and play it again.

One of my least favourite parts was the bridge puzzle, I'm really bad at puzzles like that and spent a good half hour trying to figure it out before I caved and searched online, and then found out that it is much more difficult on PC than on any other platform...

Overall it has a fantastic story, great character depth and background stories. The side missions are very interesting (strangely enough)and the ability to actually talk people out of things rather than having to fight everyone is a fantastic addition.

A couple of bad things about it were the lack of magic weapons and armour, the small number of classes and lack of dual classing and that ONE DAMN bridge puzzle.

I will cut you...

So I started playing Assassin's Creed today. I finished the first level and then began on the first leve- wait what? So it seems the game designers forgot to make anything after the first level so they just re-skinned everything instead. The main downside of the game is just the repetition and every now and again some very stupid AI.

I would say the story is fairly good, not amazing but good, but that is not why you would play the game. The story, to me at least, was just slowing down my actual enjoyment by taking me out of the fun world I got immersed in.

However once you get past the horrendous repetition and annoying cut-scenes, you step into a fantastic world of stealth kills, extortion, free-running and amazing scenery. When you stand atop the highest building you can find and just look out across the scenery you feel like you are actually there.

I found the combat system to be really enjoyable, you can strike and riposte and it flows quite nicely. However this is where the bad AI can sometimes kick in. You can find yourself up against five enemies, all of whom stand back politely while you kill them one at a time...

Other than this Assassin's Creed is a really enjoyable game, not one you would play for extended periods of time however but one that you can waste a couple of hours on and not feel cheated.