first post

so, this blog will be very insignificant to most of you. i just want to express my opinions on the latest games and such.

i am going to start off without much of an introduction...

the saboteur (released 12/8/2009)






i have spent a couple of hours, well as much as I could bare with this game. i will eventually complete it, but i would say i am far enough into it that my opinion is pretty much settled.

this is Pandemic's last game, ever. boy, what a way to go out. i mean, how lazy do you have to be with your last game? the characters are great, i love the black and white style, and i love that you can restore color to the world. very unique and fun. but, alright time to tear this apart. this game looks like it was better suited for playstation 2. i am far from a graphics whore, but damn. damn. there are so many great engines out there now to pick from, couldn't they have just shelled out the extra to get unreal or something? a sandbox game in unreal would be pretty nice actually. hell, a sandbox in id's new engine would make do unspeakable things. anyway, moving on. this game looks like shit. the buildings feel so flat. the only outstanding thing is the main character (sean devlin), and the cars you can steal and shit.



this game plays like every other sandbox there is, you talk to some shady ass dude. he has you kill someone, or steal a car, or bomb a building, whatever. you do that, go on to the next person. simple formula really. going back to the graphics, this game is grand theft auto 3 set in world war 2. okay, maybe not that bad.

i think really one of the few things that is going to keep me playing this game is the story. it's pretty much a perfect revenge story. some crazed nazi kills your best friend, and now you get to destroy all nazi troops in france in order to get revenge. intense. really. well, i am also an achievement whore, so I am trying to do everything in this game. which seems really easy. kill this many nazis, get this much contraband (that's the currency in this game. i know, fucking gay.) you can bomb nazi watch towers, armored cars, zeppelins, and all kinds of shit to restore light to good ol' france. oh yeah, and there's titties. lot's of titties in this game. your character lives in a back room behind a dressing room in a titty bar. fucking cool, right? i mean if you're into 3d playstation 2 looking titties it is. unfortunately, you can't beat the hell out of the strippers or anything. oh well.

you know what really annoys me with this game? the characters voices. they are so unconvincing. like, sean devlin doesn't even sound mad about his friend dying. he is irish though, and his accent cracks me up so hard. "it's a piece of piss."

i am over this game, if you want to bash it harder come over to my house and we will play it. laugh at it. kill nazis. steal cars. whatever.

if you're looking for a sandbox game, get grand theft auto: stories from liberty city or whatever. you're wayyyy better off.