Weekly Gears July 4, 2008

Welcome to the section called weekly gears, where every week we list games/movies/technology we watched/played/experienced and post brief impressions on them! If we like a particular thing or we feel we need to rant, expect a deeper analysis in a later post. So far, here are my impressions on things:

• EndWar Private Beta: Still so addicted to this game! The strategies and voice control are so appealing to me that I don’t think I can play another RTS without yelling “sitrep!”
• Virtua Fighter 5: A Xbox 360 game I grabbed for 14 bucks off the used section at blockbuster. This is definitely a hardcore fighter’s game. Graphics are nice and presentation is fair. The main draw is THE most complex and deep fighting system I have ever played. There is no possible way for a button masher to win! I’m not even going to touch online play simply because I know I’m going to get raped.
• Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull: WTF?! Seriously now, I think George Lucas should stop whatever he is smoking and stop mixing StarWars into Indiana Jones. I want whipalicous action, not some sci-fi corny wtf is that shit ending
• Hancock: Excellent superhero movie if you can get past the absurd premise and wtf plot twist in the middle. Other than that, seriously who names themselves Hancock? Might as well have called himself Mancock.
• Love-Guru: Ughh very hit or miss! I appreciate the hockey parts but *spoilers* I did not need to see two elephants going at it!
• ATI HD4870:Well…. that was a very interesting GPU install….. no other impressions since the guy who bought it seems to think SIMS2 is a graphics intensive game.Later impressions when I actually see how it runs a REAL game