VideoGamer.com Plays
What we've been playing this week.
Tom Orry, Editor - Racing games, multiple platforms
I've had a complete overload of racing games in the last week or so. First up was the excellent DIRT 2, then came the impressive PSP game MotorStorm: Arctic Edge and thrilling sim racer Need For Speed: Shift. And then, late in the week I got my hands on Gran Turismo for the PSP. It's been a tough week but someone's got to do it. I love racing games, but ever since I put hundreds of hours into GT3 on the PS2 I've struggled to get excited about the series. I can't give too much away on my thoughts about the highly anticipated PSP game, but I will say I've been playing it a lot. Make of that what you will and look for a review on Tuesday.
Wesley Yin-Poole, Deputy Editor – Halo 3: ODST, Xbox 360
That's right. Not only have I played Halo 3: ODST, the hotly anticipated follow-up to 2007's Halo 3, but I've finished it. On Heroic. But I can't tell you what I think. Oh no. If I were to write even a single word relating to 'wot I fink', men dressed in black will kidnap me in my sleep, string me up in some nightmarish torture device and slowly poke me with red hot pins. In the eyes. So I won't. You'll have to wait until 5am on Sunday September 20 to discover the truth behind ODST. Set your alarms VideoGamers! 5am!
James Orry, News Editor - Halo 3, Xbox 360
In preparation for the Halo 3 - VideoGamer Staff vs Forum night which took place on Thursday, I'd been putting in more practice than I'd ever done previously - one hour on Wednesday. Feeling fully prepared for battle I dusted off my Curious Orange gamertag and readied for an all out assault on a bunch of amateur gamers. After a warm-up match, which I took easy so not to humiliate the opposition, it was game on and I began to send all manner of ammunition into the crying faces of the forumites. Then disaster struck; my internet connection went tits-up and my game was crippled with lag. From that point on the forum took charge and whitewashed team VideoGamer - not a night to remember. I wasn't so much a Curious Orange as I was a Furious Orange.
Neon Kelly, Previews Editor - Halo 3, Xbox 360
Well, I know this feature is called "VideoGamer Plays," but this week a better title might be "VideoGamer Plays... Badly" - in my case, at any rate. There's no getting away from the fact that you guys gave us a solid kicking on Thursday night, but I certainly had a damn good time. Despite being fairly dreadful for most of the evening (my kill spread was -12 on one match), I don't think I did too badly given that I'd barely played Halo 3 before the start of this week. I'll take solace in my one achievement - somehow scrounging a victory in the lone Juggernaut match we played. On the other hand, I'll try not to dwell on the hundreds of times I was shot, lasered, blown up or simply run over by heavy machinery. Hats off to the forumites... you trounced us fair and square.
Sebastian Ford, Video Producer - Halo 3, Xbox 360
"I notice I haven’t got a medal next to my gamertag?" I asked politely during our Halo 3 community night on Thursday. "Yeah, that means you suck…" came the witty response. Far from calling myself a veteran of Halo 3, I was hoping beyond all reason that I would not continually find myself at the bottom of every result table after each match. For some strange reason fortune favoured me, and throughout the course of the Staff vs. Forum tournament my skills improved, with an ever increasing number of forumites perishing by my hand. That being said, we were still trounced - big time. Wez easily showed the most flare from the staff team, with the likes of Woffls, Rogue Soul and Robz48 doing the business for the forum team. Well played gents, well played.
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User Comments
Endless
Been playing RE5 too, the first, last, Wesker fight is annoying as hell with the AI playing as Sheva. Just inject him woman!! >.<
dazzadavie
Playing Batman:AA trying to get though that.
xboxlive
.Race pro - Finishing off the main part of the game.
.Fifa 10 demo - Feels alot better then Fifa 09.
.Velvet Assassin - Good game but not for me,iam more of a run and gun gamer.
II-Rossco-II
Bloodstorm
I'm playing Quake 4, Warcraft 3. I'm not gonna saw WoW now since i'm always playing it.
El-Dev
El-Dev
CheekyLee@ renegade
You said it yourself, genre is irrelevant in GOTY. So, howcome you are limiting it to either shooter or racer? FYI, the current front runner on most websites for this year is Street Fighter IV, another genre that you have written off in the past. But then, you have come out with a veritable mountain of stupid, why should I expect you to stop now?
It is not anybody's fault but your own that you don't have a DS on which to play it, but your console collection has absolutely zero bearing on the decision to award any game that coveted 'Game of the Year' title. Scribblenauts is pushing boundaries that other games are not, in a similar way to that which Little Big Planet did last year. If I recall correctly, that one also received plenty of recognition.
Wido
Sounds like you had a great Halo 3 night lads! Any funny Plasma grenade takedowns? They always crack me up when lobbed from one end of the map to the other and lands on a unexpected victim of the plasma grenade :laugh:
renegade
And yeh if it was on another Platform it would be better, because I could play it you Tit. How can you not understand that? Or are you being that Naive, but you have got into your head that im being Biased so there is no point. all im saying is this cant win game of the Year because it cant stand up against the likes of MW 2. But it could win DS game of the year!
CheekyLee@ renegade
Also, Portal is a lot closer to being the best game ever than Batman : AA is. I will stick my neck out today and suggest it is better than MW2 and AC2 will be, as well.
bencrosaby@ renegade
FYI: I have never played Portal, Half Life or Counter Strike in my lifetime.
Quote: So, from your perspective, had Scribblenauts been on a different system it would have been in with a chance? Biased thinking there, renegade.
I don't appreciate being called 'little', either.
renegade@ bencrosaby
Yeh it was a very creative mechanic bug Woop that is what the Indie games show is for.
You probably one of them people who thinks Portal is the best game of all f***ing time because you can shoot portals and go some where else.
No, Portal is a great game. And im sure this will be as well.
But if you put Scrib in the ring with say Batman AA. Then Batman Wins every time.
One bit of * Innovation* cant make up for a game like Batman AA that does so many things and does them with almost perfection. Who'd of though the Hack and Slash/ beat em up Genre would be so good?
If we are talking serious game of the year, then no, it cant win. But for its platform it is very clever. Dont read in to things little Ben im just being honest.
thompo555
Have been online mostly and pwning people in my yak-9T :D
bencrosaby@ renegade
Why the heck do you have to be so biased?
You're like a Star Wars fan that refuses to watch The Clone Wars because it's animated and you get the impression all your friends will think you're babyish.