Quick and Dirty Video Game Impressions
[via Gaming Today]
Ubisoft has officially announced that Assassin’s Creed is being spun off to the Nintendo DS. I’m not a huge fan of the game, as it’s a bit too repetitive for my liking. The core elements are well done, though, so I’m anxious to see if a DS version comes out any better.
Title: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Platform: Xbox 360 (also: PS3, PC, NDS)
Developer: Infinity Ward
Publisher: Activision
Genre: FPS
Admit it. World War II is getting old. From how many paratroopers we’ve dropped into France and how many doughboys we’ve landed on its beaches in virtual combat over the past decade, it’s no wonder the fascists lost that one. I’m all for more WWII games (see my first impressions of MoH: Airborne later this week), but a little Modern Combat now and then is good too. The fact that wargames set in the 90’s and forward are also hitting a saturation point is going to be taken out to the garage and bound/gagged for the duration of this post.
So, what sets Call of Duty 4 apart from all the other FPS’s out there? Why has it received perfect review scores from major outlets? Why did it garner the popular vote for Game of the Year over at Goozex? What other questions could I possibly ask in this long, inquisitive paragraph?
Put simply, CoD4 puts together the gameplay that worked for the original Call of Duty with a multiplayer package that really blows away anything else on the market (I rate it higher than Halo 3, but obviously the two are completely different games with very similar multiplayer matchmaking and ranking systems).
[via Gaming Today]
In Saratoga Springs, New York, 20-year old Joshua Stetar met a 15-year old girl, who was living in Spokane, Washington, through playing Halo online over a year ago. He apparently found her address online and began sending packages and flowers to her home, all of which her parents returned. He also sent several hundred text messages to her cell phone, which forced her parents to change her number.
