Wading Through the Pile

Ok so with the past Christmas boon and the going out of sale gaming goldmine that was the former Circuit City Store, I have had a lot of gaming goodness to wade through. It started off with Fall Out 3. This game is amazing if not daunting in it's scope. Think Morrowind, but a post-apocalyptic setting which instantly makes it a hundred times better for me. Like Morrowind the game provides an insane amount of distractions from the main story line which often lead to many mini story arcs and lots of loot boons to help you get through the game. The only problem with these types of games (for me) is that I will try to do each and every distraction and never finish the game so I had to put it aside and move on to some of the other games I got.

The second game was Star Wars: Force Unleashed. I actually, despite my earlier qualms about the demo, enjoyed the game quite a bit. The story was an interesting take on what could have happened between the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy and I actually like the story more that the story in episodes 1-3 combined. I definetly didn't feel like the force was "unleashed" in any way, and at times I felt like for this supreme force wielder he was pretty weak. However, I understand the need to balance the game as to make the game still challenging. They were definitely too liberal with their use of the "cinemaction" moments specifically to take out the harder NPCs. There is one encounter in particular that takes the cake for the most frustrating of these encounters...it has to do with star destroyers, but that is all I am giving away.

Next I jumped to Too Human. The game is fun. That's really all that I can say that was positive about it. The negatives are that the controls can be extremely clumsy, the voice acting and the story in general can get pretty hammy (but not enough to make it enjoyable) and the camera occasionally freaks out and gets stuck at a weird angle. If you can get the game for cheap by all means pick it up, because it has moderate replay value and is enjoyable. However, I don't think it is worth the $59.99 price tag the game still garners.

I will post again tomorrow with the rest of the titles I picked up.