Wulf's Pawprints

Stalking my voice.

Sunday, November 21, 2004

HALF LIFE 2 REVIEW

Finally, I found some time to play with my new immersive experience (not a game!). I spend most of the weekend playing through the long awaited HALF LIFE 2.HALF LIFE was a long standing benchmark in the first person perspective, single player genre, therefore HALF LIFE 2 (HL2) had a huge act to follow. Having played some way into the game, I can say with no bias, the game (err... entertainment software) absolutely rocks. Just as it gets boring, the story takes a twist.
It would be so easy to, like many others of its ilk to be a maze-rat-race, get the cheeze, kill the baddies. 4.5 out of 5 stars.

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In one of the twists of the game a journey must be made in a MAD MAX like dune buggy through bug infested bad lands. Even though the vehicle does not have a windshield, it is very tempting to bugsplat these nasty alien suckers.
Scary customers, like many an apponent in the game.


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What would a computer game be for all the sad geeks out there if there was no 'romantic interest', well fear not, a sexy, tall, aggressive beauty is in game. Also some chick pops up and talks to the sexy hardware.

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Once in a while, by accident or by design, a scenic beauty appears. This could be a work of art, hanging on a wall

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The game is 'revolutionary' because it allows a high degree of 'interaction' with the environment. It manifests in many way, here is just one example, a corridor full of zombies is about to say hello to a chainsaw blade I picked up with my gravity gun.

ANOTHER BUSHIS'M

As I am writing this log, a short soundbite from Bush on the radio.
I am astounded, the man is on the record for his skills with the Engrish linguage. But I sometimes wonder about his speech writers. For a gem like this to sneak into the speech it must mean that the contagion must be spreading.

This is what Bush said regarding Iraq (and how history will justify the war);

"Free societies don't attack each other".

I guess this explains why the US attacked the IRAQ then.

We can not fire the president but for the LOVE OF GOD, NSA!!!
PLEASE ADVISE CARL ROWE TO FIRE THAT DUMB SPEECHWRITER - HES EMBARRASING THE PREZ (a feat worthy of some sort of award).

FREAKY

Once again I am constantly amazed just how weird the real world is.
Came across this at work (something I need to cut down), a real world Chimeras!!!

"This is extremely rare; a case was discovered in 2002 when a woman needed a kidney transplant. Tissue typing revealed her to be a tetragametic individual, having developed from four gametes instead of two. Half her cells were genotypically different from the other half. During development, this woman and her twin fused into one embryo, and appeared to the world after birth to be one person. There are probably more people like this out there. I seem to remember a story where another woman surprisingly failed a maternity test for her own son, and was found to be chimeral." O_O

Who says God is a dry, humorless bloke with no imagination!

LINK OF THE DAY

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Disinfopedia

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey W

I know something about this medical condition of which you speak. Ask me about it at lunch on Friday, luv, C x

11:34 PM  

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