Sometimes I don’t get just spam in my e-mail. Monolith purchased the rights to the F.E.A.R. name from Activision. Check out the sequel web site. The first F.E.A.R. was meant to be played late at night and in the dark. When I played it, it scared the crap out of me. This real sequel is [...]
Games
Old ID software games
I’m a sucker for the old games. For me the id super pack was too much to pass. It comes with virtually every id game up to and including DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil. When Steam came out, the idea of downloading games from the Internet was just plain silly. Now I can get games [...]
Gears of War for Windows
The other day I was in Best Buy getting some Nintendo DS Lite games for the kids. The Windows version of Gears of War was on sale for $30 so I got it. I always get last year’s games. After the nightmare known as Halo 2 for Windows I was worried that the game would [...]
Finished Valve's Portal and the Cake is a Lie
Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said ‘Goodbye’ and you were like ‘NO WAY!’ and then I was all ‘We pretended we were going to murder you’? That was great! I usually don’t play current games on my PC so I just got and completed Valve’s Portal. It’s a [...]
Crysis for Christmas
One of my Christmas gifts was the PC video game Crysis. Ah yes, holiday cheer, therapeutic beating the bad guys… life is good . The installation was weird. It was as if my DVD drive had problems reading the DVD. After the game installed I checked for updates and was directed to this URL: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105. [...]
Back to Max Payne 2
I saw a commercial for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men and I had to get out my copy of “Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne” and install it. This game came out in 2003 and I still like playing it. It’s like Humphrey Bogart directed by John Woo. Very cool. I’ve only just [...]
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
I’ve bought Half-Life games since they first came out so naturally I had to buy Episode 2. I’m about half way through in only a couple of hours. The play is okay and unlike Microsoft games (Halo 2 is still dead on Vista; what a waste) it works very well with my Vista 64 system. [...]
Ad supported games?
I had purchased Far Cry a couple of years ago. It was a cool game (although later levels were just nuts). I wanted to install it but could not find the disk. Now there is an advertisement supported version which I downloaded from FilePlanet and installed. Here is what the menu screen looks like with [...]
Completed Halo 2 on Vista
That was anticlimactic. My saved games came back and I was farther along than I thought. After a couple of “boss” battles I completed the game. I actually had to check the Wikipedia page to see if there was something I missed. It was definitely an “okay” game but nothing to get excited about. After [...]
Halo 2 on Vista fix?
This morning tried Halo 2. All my accomplishments attached to my Live account got wiped out. I have to start from scratch. That might fix it; the problem was definitely with my online account.
