Saturday, January 17, 2009
World in Conflict
A fairly fun multiplayer war game. I only tried the single player portion for a few nights, but the online play is far more compelling. Every now and then it's fun to play some matches since they only take on average about 15 minutes for one game. Below is a custom generated signature tag from WIC. I'm a Captain, just like Jack Sparrow I guess.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Fallout 3
Nuclear Wa
r. The very words conjure images of mushroom clouds, gas masks, and bewilderd childed ducking and covering under their school desks. But it’s the aftermath of such a conflict that truly captures our imaginations, in large part because there’s no real-world equivalent we can relate to. Mankind may have witnessed the horror of the atomic bomb, but thankfully we’ve somehow succeeded in not blowing up the entire planet. At least, not yet.
The Fallout World presents a much grimmer reality. Imagine if, after World War II, the timeline split. Our world forked into one branch, the Fallout Universe the other. In that other branch, technology progressed at a much more impressive rate, while American society remained locked in the cultural norms of the 1950’s. It was an idyllic "world of tomorrow," filled with servant robots, beehive hairdos, and fusion-powered cars. And then in the year 2077, at the climax of a long-running war with China, it all went to hell in a globe-shattering nuclear war.
Fallout 3 takes place in the year 2277, in post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. The "Capital Wasteland" as it has come to be known, is a nightmare landscape of Raiders, freakish Super Mutants, Feral Ghouls, Mutated animals and malfunctioning robots. You have been living underground for the past 20 years, safe and secure in an official Vault-Tec facility known as Vault 101. 200 years ago the steel door of 101 was sealed shut, no one has entered and no one has ever left.
Everything is fine and dandy, until your father -who has been the one constant in your life- leaves the vault unexpectedly. Facing a hostile Vault Overseer you must also flee to the wasteland. Once you escape Vault 101 you have absolute freedom. Try and find dear old Dad or forget he exists - head into the nearest settlement with your 10mm pistol firing - or try to investigate where he could be.
War. War never changes. You will soon learn about the long enduring conflict between the "Enclave" and the "Brotherhood of Steel." Join a side or become a menace to the both of them. The choice is yours...
My wife got my Fallout 3 this past holiday season. I am fairly lucky that she allows it. While most people I know prescribe to the notion that video games are for kids, I think that many games are strictly for adults, like myself who do not watch television shows or movies. I find them very agreeable to entertain and ofter some interactive escape from everyday activities. I will be posting "character play-throughs" of Fallout 3 that I do in the future. I also from time to time will post moderate reviews of games that I have tried.
Thanks to Bethesda Studios for a majority of the content in the post.
r. The very words conjure images of mushroom clouds, gas masks, and bewilderd childed ducking and covering under their school desks. But it’s the aftermath of such a conflict that truly captures our imaginations, in large part because there’s no real-world equivalent we can relate to. Mankind may have witnessed the horror of the atomic bomb, but thankfully we’ve somehow succeeded in not blowing up the entire planet. At least, not yet.The Fallout World presents a much grimmer reality. Imagine if, after World War II, the timeline split. Our world forked into one branch, the Fallout Universe the other. In that other branch, technology progressed at a much more impressive rate, while American society remained locked in the cultural norms of the 1950’s. It was an idyllic "world of tomorrow," filled with servant robots, beehive hairdos, and fusion-powered cars. And then in the year 2077, at the climax of a long-running war with China, it all went to hell in a globe-shattering nuclear war.
Fallout 3 takes place in the year 2277, in post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. The "Capital Wasteland" as it has come to be known, is a nightmare landscape of Raiders, freakish Super Mutants, Feral Ghouls, Mutated animals and malfunctioning robots. You have been living underground for the past 20 years, safe and secure in an official Vault-Tec facility known as Vault 101. 200 years ago the steel door of 101 was sealed shut, no one has entered and no one has ever left.
Everything is fine and dandy, until your father -who has been the one constant in your life- leaves the vault unexpectedly. Facing a hostile Vault Overseer you must also flee to the wasteland. Once you escape Vault 101 you have absolute freedom. Try and find dear old Dad or forget he exists - head into the nearest settlement with your 10mm pistol firing - or try to investigate where he could be.
War. War never changes. You will soon learn about the long enduring conflict between the "Enclave" and the "Brotherhood of Steel." Join a side or become a menace to the both of them. The choice is yours...
My wife got my Fallout 3 this past holiday season. I am fairly lucky that she allows it. While most people I know prescribe to the notion that video games are for kids, I think that many games are strictly for adults, like myself who do not watch television shows or movies. I find them very agreeable to entertain and ofter some interactive escape from everyday activities. I will be posting "character play-throughs" of Fallout 3 that I do in the future. I also from time to time will post moderate reviews of games that I have tried.
Thanks to Bethesda Studios for a majority of the content in the post.
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Well it looks like I have a ton of work to do on this. Lets just wait and see what I can come up with in a few hours. I first have to get Walker to take a nap, then I feel I can make some real progress here.
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