Halo 2
Amazon were a day late delivering my copy of the long-awaited Halo 2, but I've had a chance to spend a couple of hours in its company. I was expecting it to be good -- reviews of the multiplayer seemed to suggest it would be -- and I wasn't disappointed. In fact, I was absolutely bowled over. Everything's better: The graphics, the enemy AI, the friendly AI, the level design, the sound, and, most importantly, the gameplay is better.
Prince of Persia, Big Brother, Solaris
I've just finished playing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. I bought it six months ago, and it's lain around waiting for me to finish other games. I remember the warm reception it received in Edge on its release two-odd years ago, and I remember the subsequent laments about its poor sales, and the frequent references to its fluidity in reviews of similar games (in which the comparisons were usually in favour of POP).
- 19.6.2005, 20.43
- File under: gaming, videogame, cinema, television, review, Prince of Persia, Ubisoft, Big Brother, Solaris, Stansilaw Lem, Steven Soderberg, George Clooney
Oolite and memory lane
One of the things that was most appealing about my first computer, besides the fact that my mate Mark had one, was the fact that the BBC 'B' was the home of Elite, David Braben & Ian Bell's mammoth space-trading game.