I really loved The Witcher. It was a fun game, even though it had the nasty habit of killing you every few minutes. The new Witcher follows along in that tradition, and I am growing to love it. I bought the Witcher 2 the day it came out-and found that it was all but impossible for me to play. This was due to a couple of factors, a computer that may be a bit below the minimum requirements and a certain laziness on my part when it comes to having to learn how to do a couple of dozen different…
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Dracula Origin
I grew up playing Infocom Text Adventure Games-these were great games. There was a bit of reading to do and you had to think and there was a lot of typing involved. Now adventure games are mainly of the floating hand variety-or more likely the floating multifunction cursor. Dracula Origin is a typical The Adventure Company computer game. The seemingly endless locations are beautifully rendered and often have photographic quality images. But the images, such as the one of Van Helsing standing in a ruined library, are mostly window dressing. So it can be a challenge at times to the…
Wii Bowling is Hard
Being an old guy and a cheapskate and not having any kids-I have never played with a Wii before yesterday. Wii Sports has a number of games where odd little characters do such mundane things as go bowling, play golf, or play tennis. I mainly went bowling and I found the whole swinging my arm and pressing and releasing a button thing to be much harder than I expected. Being a long time veteran of old world games like PacMan and Tetris, where body language didn’t matter but was often added anyway, I just had a hard time with the…