Advanced Game Playing

All right after a week with Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter I have decided that I have made no mistake by investing in the 360. As if there was ever any question! Well in truth after just a few hours in multiplayer I had come to the conclusion that this is what gaming should be. For the first time in almost 20 years of playing any and all games I could get my hands on, the image on the screen and the images in my imagination are exactly the same.

With the loss of the "jaggies" the worlds generated by the 360 become so much more real. Ghost really brings this to an amazing level. Playing the "Rocky Cove" map I almost cried it was so real. It wasn't just a Ghost walking across the beach it was me. I have never experienced such immersion in a game.

Physics wise Ghost offers up a great experience. The movements of people while they run, slide, and die are all very human like. Movement is fluid and adds to the level of immersion the stellar graphics bring.

This game shines both single player and multiplayer. With all the choices in the multiplayer I can not see G.R.A.W getting old until say the next one comes out. Ghosts physics, graphics, and game play should be a bench mark for any game developer trying to make realistic looking and feeling games.

Next week the gates of Oblivion open wide!

Wow March rocks. War March Madness!

Well Fight Night Round 3 just came out last week and after a good solid week of working my self to the top of the fight game I have to say it was well worth the wait. We all already know that the graphics are solid and so is the game play but something that has stood out for my friends and I is that this is a great game just to watch. The first time something like this happened was back when the Dream Cast first came out and we got a hold of Sega's new Foot Ball offering. At the time I was working at a mom and pop game store here in Lincoln, Game Player for those that still hold the flame. Anyway we would all sit at the big TV at the front of the store and play 2k all day and people would come in and out of the store and we would get comments that it looked so good they thought we were just watching a game. Good times. Well we held Friday Night Fights last Friday and it was great. We had it set up tournament style with the tourny on a HD projector and 4 other TV's set up to hold practice matches for those waiting for their main match to come up. Well the competition was so real and so heated no one ended up playing on the satellite units NOT ONE.

I think a lot of that comes not only from the photo realistic graphics but the near life like competition that comes flowing out of this game. Now ofcourse it doesn't offer a "life like" experience, I mean no one left with broken noses, but plenty of people left with broken spirits after Big Sexy plowed an undefeeted trench through the pretenders. The level of commitment to ones character that the graphics and sound bring are amazing. It really was almost exactly the same as sitting with these same guys and watching a real ESPN Friday Night Fight. This is defiantly a game to be played with friends and foes in a group.

Next week. Ghot Recon Advanced War Fighter. Hoo Rah.