Sunday, January 21, 2007

Gaming Guilty Pleasure

With all the hype surrounding the next generation game consoles (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii) I am still playing my PS2 with great frequency. I will say my most guilty pleasure on it is the game Black by Criterion Games published by EA. This is the same studio that created the burnout series. This game has been called gun porn I am not going to say any differently. Everything about this game is over the top(cliche alert, I know) There is a story behind this game but i wont bore you with it the way EA bores me with it. It was an after thought, it had to be, please tell me it was an afterthought! This FPS stands out for one reason: wanton destruction. It is so great to have a tough day at work , come home, and grab and RPG and see if you can hit a bad guy in the head with it. You begin to play games with the ricocheting bullets to see who you can kill with them. And most importantly you figure out what explodes and where the bad guys need to be to become engulfed in the flames. But the best part only happens once as far as I can remember, in the docks map there is a shipping container being held by a crane, and there is nothing more satisfying then dropping it on a machine gun nest.
It is a very pretty game with a terrible story and very standard controls, but it is my gaming guilty pleasure.

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