Welcome to VideoGamer.com Plays, our weekly feature where we give you the inside track on what's been whirring in our disc drives this week. We'll be honest (so if we've been playing Superman on the N64 we'll tell you). But if we've been hammering the latest billion-selling blockbuster we'll let you know about that too.
Tom Orry, Editor - Kameo, Xbox 360.
I've been dipping into the Xbox 360 collection we have here in the office and one gem that's stood out is Kameo, the Xbox 360 launch title from Rare. On its release, back when I think everyone had extremely high expectations of what the next-gen games were going to look like, Kameo got a pretty hard time. Looking at it again this week it really is an excellent technical achievement, better looking even than many modern titles despite its age (this was released back in December 2005 remember) and the fact it started life on the GameCube, before being ported to the Xbox and then the 360. It plays great too (apart from some awkward underwater sections) and I recommend it to everyone.
Wesley Yin-Poole, Deputy Editor - Zack & Wiki, Wii.
I've been all over Zack & Wiki on Wii this week. The puzzles get better and better the further on you get, and some of them are absolute genius. The best thing about it though? This is one game I can actually get my girlfriend involved in, with her not doing anything except looking at the screen and helping to work out how to get to the treasure chest and solve the puzzle. Well, when she's not saying how cute Zack and Wiki are that is. Here's hoping Capcom releases an officially licensed Zack & Wiki plush set - that would score me some serious brownie points.
James Orry, News Editor - World of Warcraft, PC.
I'm sorry Blizzard, but you've made a mistake not adding the option to guide players to their quest's target. This week I installed a host of GPS, coordinate and quest mods and they've quite simply transformed my experience with the game. The ability to take a quest and then be told where to go by placing a waypoint on my map almost completely removes the trial and error wandering I had disliked from the off in WoW. I was so frustrated with the game I could have easily packed it in for good, but I'm now keen to get on with more quests in the knowledge I won't waste my evening trying to figure out where I need to go.
Simon Hunter, Associate Video Producer - World of Warcraft, PC.
I had a rotten time when I was a noob in Azaroth, but now that I have some experience under my belt I like nothing more than giving other noobs a rotten time. Case in point: introducing my brother to WoW. Completely new to the world of Warcraft, he was unaware of the basics - you don't steal someone else's kill, you don't roll for items you don't need, and you NEVER announce on general chat that you are 'looking for a BF'. I feel bad about it now, but we actually managed to convince my brother that he needed a magical item called a Blazing Forcefield, and he should ask around for one under the prefix BF so that he didn't sound like a noob. It's no surprise that he was confused at the responses he was getting - not many people openly ask for a boyfriend on WoW.
