X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Date installed: May 2009
Date uninstalled: Approximately 1 month later



I have yet to see the new Wolverine movie though I do know the plot for most of the film as this movie-tie-in game seems to be fairly true to it's source from my estimates. Good news is I chucked the game before I beat it so it didn't spoil the ending!
I should mention that this game lasted a month and not a week as while playing it my GPU died and I had to do without for 2 weeks while I waited on a RMA. Gigabyte never told me what was wrong but said they replaced the entire card, interesting...

Now it's fairly common knowledge that games based on movies are sh!t but this one is not terrible by any means. I found myself enjoying tearing through people at first and there is some nice looking gore in the game also. There are a ton of combos for you to use but that doesn't save the game from it's repetition.

So I was I assume 2/3rds through the game when I got to a level in the snow where I had to take a bomb off a building and go put it somewhere. The game has a wolverine sense or some sh!t which basically tells you where to go. So I pick up this bomb and walk off the building as per my "sense" and then when I hit the ground the sense is now pointing up, WTF!? So I need to go up now? fine. I go over to a ladder but oh snap, can't climb a ladder with a bomb held over your head. So I try to find another way up and I got nothing so this game had to go. It's possible I missed something but I really hate games that can lead you down a dead end and leave you there. Reminds me of my last play through Fallout 2 and I tossed some critical game item I needed to beat the game and spent an hour backtracking through the damn world trying to find some piece of crap I tossed in the middle of the desert. Judgement day will come for these game designers and I will laugh (Fallout 2 is a great game though).

Quick aside: If you like groove metal then go grab a copy of the new DevilDriver album, it's fantastic.

Bully

Date installed: Approximately Nov 2008
Date uninstalled: A few weeks later



Bully sounded like GTA meets school so what wouldn't there be to like?
I installed the game and started it up and within 5 minutes I had my answer, how about the worst console to PC port in the history of video games!

The game was almost completely unplayable. I'm talking major texture issues all over the place. I had audio out-of-sync and cutscenes running faster than normal. I'm not the only one who had those issues and I tossed the game rather then wait for the patch I figured would never come.

I've been called lazy in my day but not Take 2 Interactive / Rockstar Vancouver lazy.
I can't imagine this port sold well, why bother if you aren't going to do it right!?

LOL, Sweet!
I found a petition asking for Bully to be patched. Maybe everyone should sign it and give the game a try if it gets it's patch :p

Left 4 Dead

Date installed: Approximately Nov 2008
Date uninstalled: A few months later

I am a major fan of all things zombies.
Book wise I own The Zombie Survival Guide & World War Z (which is going to be made into a movie soon, fingers crossed on the final result). I also own over a dozen zombie DVDs including my personal favorite, The Return of the Living Dead. So needless to say I was all over this video game when it came out, I had visions of barricading myself in some safe house and battling back a zombie onslaught.

First hiccup with this game was it kept crashing on me very shortly into the game.
Some digging on Google pointed me to the fix which involved editing the shortcut and punching some random crap into the console window, crisis averted.

Game started great, some random zombies busted through a wall which was a nice touch. Seemed to be a good mix of zombie types and I made my way through the first set of missions. The developers decided to reward me with another set of missions eerily reminiscent to the previous ones. Same creatures, same balls-out battle at the end of each level, same everything basically.

I stopped playing the game for a long while and one day just decided to remove it. I'm told it was great in multiplayer but I'm not into that. The game is really repetitive and the gameplay didn't do much for me. It is basically a glorified Half-life mod, damn shame really...
I guess i'm stuck watching zombie clips on youtube till someone releases some zombie stuff worthwhile to enjoy on my PC.

Velvet Assassin

Date installed: 06/21/2009
Date uninstalled: See date installed and add 30 minutes

Wow. This video game holds the unique distinction of being the only game in recent memory that was both installed and removed within the same hour. I knew this game was going to be heavy on stealth but holy sh!t was I not prepared for this.

Lets see, I cranked up the graphics to full and started my game.
I climbed up to a bridge, killed a drunk guy and moved onto an area with 2 guards. I hid in the bushes like a pervert and that was when I got spotted and shot to ribbons in seconds. I said something to the effect of "That's bullsh!t" followed by quitting->uninstalling->and telling the game to "F*#k off!".

Next time I want to play a stealth video game I'll fire up MGS. Any game that lets you hide in a box is the sh!t.