Gwen Demulder

Latelly I’ve found myself playing more games then I’m used to. I presume the shittage weather might have something to do with it. The past two days I spent most free time playing a fun simple game in co-op with my brother. That game ladies and gentlemen is Lego Star Wars II, it is filled with a lot of humor and might even be the best Star Wars game on the market. Lego really scored with this game.

The thing that makes this game so much fun is the fact that you can’t lose, if your lego character gets killed he’ll just reappear. In the Co-op mode you can work together to solve puzzles in the game. Even after completing the story mode of the game you can replay maps in a free mode. This allows you to access previously locked areas. I think I’m going to try to find Lego Star Wars 1 also

Another game that I picked up yesterday is called Goldeneye: Rogue agent. I guess this was an attempt to recreate the succesful goldeneye game from the nintendo 64 for more recent consoles. I can’t make a comparison with the original one because I actually never played/owned it. This is also my first fps for console. It’s odd at first, apparantly you can have different modes for aiming at targets, some requiring more precision then the other. On the PC you’dd have to be very precise with the mouse to take down a target. With a console controller however, this is practically impossible… So thank god for these simplicated modes. The game itself is nice, I wouldn’t call it a hit but it’s got a nice touch of james bond nostalgia in it (even though you only get to see bond for a few moments during the start of the game).

In the game you are a “rogue agent” (Well, we didn’t expect that one now did we?) who’s lost his eye in a confrontation with doctor No, after that event your character became aggresive and uncontrollable. So MI6 decided to take away your 00 status. This caused the agent to cross over and join the ranks of spectre in which goldfinger apparantly now plays a major role. I can’t say much more now since I haven’t progressed that much yet.

I also purchased need for speed underground, I doubt this game needs much explaining. It’s a fun arcade racing game that allows you to tune your car. In my opinion, this and underground 2 are the best games made by EA that involve tuning. For some reason I was very dissapointed when I triend NFS Carbon.