December 2008
Mirror's Edge & Street Fighter II HD Remix Demosby Shabbir on Sunday, 28th December 2008 21:35
Going with the gaming spirit (it does feel good to play a few games after such a long time!) I also played the demos for Mirror's Edge and Street Fighter II HD Remix.
The Mirror's Edge demo takes you through the training, and then a pretty short first segment of the game itself. The game focuses on parkour, which is the art of running around jumping like a lunatic! It's an interesting game concept and does work pretty well, but the demo feels tailored to sell you into the game. I've heard a lot of negative criticism about the game too and many flaws regarding combat, and certain parts of the game being frustratingly difficult. So play the game and make your own opinion!
As for Street Fighter II HD Remix, SF2 was one of my favourite games of all time, let alone fighting game. So to see Capcom revisit such a great classic and redo it with HD graphics is awesome! There are problems with this trial though, firstly no single player... You can only play with another person, so forget about trying it on your own. Secondly, you can only play as Ryu or Ken. So it's a very limited trial, but the game does seem to play as good as it did back in the day! :D
Left 4 Dead Demo Impressionsby Shabbir on Sunday, 28th December 2008 14:21
Wow, feels like ages, and indeed it has been ages. A full month to be almost precise! Unfortunately, I've firstly been busy with university, but after that when it came around to my Christmas holidays, I become ill with the flu, fever, sore throat, cough, etc. combination. That has kept me in bed for a while and the cough has been very persistent too, so I'm finally recovering now.
So, I would firstly like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and/or a Happy Holiday! Either way, I hope you got the chance to relax and enjoy yourself a bit and get away from studies or work or whatever plagues your usual everyday existence! Oh, and I honestly hope you didn't spend it being ill like me, because that sucks!
I finally got around to playing Left 4 Dead. I downloaded the demo... not sure how long. Probably the last time I turned on my XBox 360... again I don't know how long ago that was. But yesterday I bought a new controller for my 360, a wireless one since the wired one is a bit inconvenient. With the new controller, I set it up this morning and was browsing around and saw the demo, so I fired it up.
My very first impressions was: nice graphics, smooth gameplay, good FPS elements. And all of those were true throughout. L4D plays extremely well. It isn't your typical zombie survival game like Resident Evil. It puts 4 survivors together (so you can play co-op with up to 4 players or just single player) in an area and you have to work your way through and survive.
It's a pretty addictive game and a very fun concept. Having hordes of zombies running at you when you least expect it and shooting the crap out of them with an assault rifle or even two pistols is pretty satisfying! I really enjoyed the demo and I'm very tempted to purchase the full game. If you haven't tried it, I definitely recommend giving it a go if you're into FPS, action or survival games.