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. [...]
Games
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.
Halo 2 on Vista problems (continued)
Still having problems with Halo 2 despite removing the game and re-installing. This is no longer funny; the problem seems to be the data on my live account.
Halo 2 on Vista problems
My installation of Halo 2 on Vista is not working. I get to the part where the Arbiter gets pushed off the ledge when Keyes gets captured and he loses the icon. The game complains about needing the DVD, I insert it and I have to repeat the whole level. Twice. I’m taking a break [...]
Halo 2 on Vista
Microsoft could have done better for a Vista only game. Two weeks ago I was at my in-laws house. My nephew has an old Xbox (not the 360) and was playing Halo. It was a little retro compared with Gears of War but it looked okay. So for $20 at Best Buy I picked up [...]
Gears of War
I’m slow on getting the latest games. A few weeks ago my pal told me he got Gears of War for his Xbox 360 and loved it. He and his son completed it on coop play. He described it as having fantastic graphics and great game play. The fact that if you don’t get cover, [...]
