What to watch 4 at E3….. according to ME

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1. Sporehttp://www.pcgamesnow.com/screenshots/spore-01.jpg

I think this is an obvious choice for most PC Gamers’ watch-list. The immense amount of interactive features on this game is so countless that I don’t even want to start listing them. One thing I hope, though, is that the ability to filter out creatures so that I don’t end up with planets after planets of penis creatures. I think another pro of this game is the approachability; I think it would be appropriate for any pre-teen gamer to the most hardcore adult gamer. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited about Spore and will be buying it as soon as I can after it comes out.

2. Guitar Hero World Tourhttp://dvd.themanroom.com/images/news/2775a.jpg

I used to be SUCH a junkie of Guitar Hero 2 and 3 that I cannot even begin to explain. I have five starred every “normal” song in 2, 4-starred Jordan (ok so I didn’t 5-star it, so what?), and 4-starred Through the Fire and Flames at my peak playing skill level. Afraid that these two games and Rock Band combined may kill me, I stopped playing it so religiously and only played it with friends at a party. THIS game, may force me back into addiction again. One thing that my prevent it though: the current extremely high price tag.

3. C&C Red Alert 3http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/02/redalert3.jpg

I’m truly Ashamed to say I’ve never played Red Alert 1 or 2. I was too little to be a gamer and the first real RTS I’ve ever played was StarCraft(like a true Korean). However, the strategic element and the somewhat-comical factions and units interest me very much, and I’ll be very much looking out for this game when it comes out, and, if the reviews are good, I will try it out.

4. Far Cry 2http://www.tvfm.hu/images/stories/farcry2pc.jpg

No matter how often Crysis gets bashed for its unnecessarily high specs (or was it truly necessary) and epitaphs such as “the rapist of systems,” no one can deny that the gameplay and the graphics are absolutely jaw-dropping. It is one of the few FPS that I took the troubling of completing beginning to end (Call of Duty 4 and the Halo series being the others) and I’m very much excited and sure that this game can provide the similar amount of gaming ownage that Crysis provided.

4.5 Crysis Warhead

See above.

5. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoninghttp://www.criticalgamers.com/archives/pictures/WarhammerOnline.Escapist.jpg

As I said in a previous post, I’d like to see how it really compares to WoW or Age of Conan. WoW’s outdated graphics and repetitive gameplay is what ended my WoW era of gaming, and AoC’s bugginess and incompleteness ticked me off initially (although when I go back to the states it may be all better). Perhaps Warhammer will bring the solid performance of WoW and the graphic upgrade of AoC together, making the sure replacement for WoW.

Kill me if I buy any of these games below.

1. High School Musical 3: Senior Year DANCE! - Is the all caps really necessary?
2. My SAT Coach (DS): Seriously. I’ve had enough of the SATs and anything related to it.
3. Fat Princess (PS3): I didn’t even bother reading the description, because the title probably says it all. GAY.
4.Ultimate Band (Wii): Disney. If you can’t think of better ideas, at least don’t rip it off from other companies.
5. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: I liked the books, the movies were ok, the games aren’t fit to be called games.

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Warhammer Online or Age of Conan…. the next WoW?

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[digg=http://digg.com/pc_games/Warhammer_Online_or_Age_of_Conanh_the_next_WoW_Stray_Tho]http://www.shinyshiny.tv/conan1-thumb.jpgPersonally, I think not. I’ll admit, I was a WoW junkie for a half of a year or so, but it all came to an abrupt end when the majority of my friends’ accounts got banned for gliding. For those of you who do not know what gliding is, it is automating actions in WoW so that you don’t have to engage in collecting money, exp, honor points, etc. When everyone hoarded over to Age of Conan, I did too, because I, apparently, have no free will. Actually, the true reason was that it actually looked kind of cool. It was being touted the next WoW and all, the graphics looked cool (I’m a tech nerd.. DX10!!!).. but after playing it a week and a half, I deemed it unfit to “replace” WoW as THE MMORPG of the world. Here are the few reasons why I thought so.

1. Way too buggy. Of course, most MMORPGs are buggy as hell on launch, but this was a little too hard to bear. For each of my friends, there was a unique and different problem. For me, it was that it BSODed when it was played on full screen, but it didn’t on windowed mode. *shrug

2. Lack of diverse gameplay elements. So far, my experience with AoC has been cool graphics, nice combat system, but way too much repetition. I would almost compare it to the Assassin’s Creed. I believe as more people join and patches come out, it will diversify and become more fun.

3. The gameplay is nowhere as continuous. And this may be the breaker for AoC, because although bugs can be fixed and gameplay elements added with patches, I doubt it is possible to do away with loading screens that come up every five seconds in AoC, compared to WoW’s once-in-a-year loading screen.http://www.criticalgamers.com/archives/pictures/WarhammerOnline.Escapist.jpg

I’ll have to try Warhammer Online when it comes out, but my trusty informant over at Ctrl+Alt+Del tells us faithful readers that a lot of the features have been deleted so close to launch. If I have the money, I may try it, but from what I’ve seen from recent MMO launches, Blizzard will hold its throne for a while. Also, according to Gamespot podcast I heard a while ago, Blizzard will make another MMO to “replace” WoW (in terms of graphics and overused storyline), so maybe Blizzard will hold the throne for a long long time.

Long live Blizzard! (please don’t kill me when you take over the world)

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