20.01.08

Wet weekend

Posted in Games at 10:24 pm by alby

I missed the first juggling convention of the year in the UK. No money (see prev post) and too much to do (car maintenance) meant that the trip just wasn’t going to happen. Heaving it down rain stylee meant that not much outside was doable neither. [edit: I just re-read that sentence and my word it's a sentence to be proud of]

But what was done had some good bits.

The 2 games wot I bought have both turned out to be gems.

Geometry Wars is a wee slip of a game, comfortably nothing more than Asteroids on steroids. The Wii controls for it are a bit odd and have a bit of a learning curve but are not as bad as some online have complained about. Hectic, gorgeous to look at and about the hardest game I’ve played since Monkey Ball 1. Great fun. Although when I closed my eyes last night to sleep all I could see were brightly coloured geometric shapes zooming around.

Zack and Wiki turns out to be great fun if a little irritating (in a good way). Point and click adventures never grabbed me during the Amiga era when they were big but this return to the genre is happy and fun. P and C were round on Saturday and playing it as a group was a new way of doing multi-player.

“No look have a look at that thing.”

“No over there!”

“Ring the bell!”

etc…

There is one slight fly in the ointment though. For some reason a couple of games on my Wii have some bits that leave dodgy artifacts on the picture. I’ve no idea why. One thought is the component feed to the telly is the culprit. I thought the telly might be the problem but the old (nicked) one did the same. It’s just that Z&W is far worse an example of this than the others. There are whole cut scenes with dreadful spotting going on. It’s not pretty. Good job the game is good enough to overlook these flaws. But I’m pretty sure it’s down to the component thing rather than any poor game design.

Have fun.

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