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Gaming
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Written by Paul Swain
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Wednesday, 02 June 2010 00:00 |
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The second of my gaming posts, this time its Ion Storm’s 2000 RPG, FPS, adventure game: Deus Ex.
Let’s start with part of their description of Deus Ex:
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‘The year is 2052 and the world is a dangerous and chaotic place. Terrorists operate openly, killing thousands; drugs, disease, and pollution kill even more. The world's economics are close to collapse and the gap between the insanely wealthy and the desperately poor has grown to the size of the Grand Canyon. Worst of all, an ages old conspiracy bent on world domination has decided that the time is right to emerge from the shadows and take control. No one believes they exist. No one but you...’
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 Now, that text is pretty spot on and it would be because they're the creators but it fails to mention the Gray Death: a virus that’s rapidly killing a large percentage of the population. And of course Bob Page, your boss and the shit that’s making the plague and holding the country’s President to ransom with it. He also has a whole armada of shit-lings too
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Gaming
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Written by Paul Swain
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Friday, 14 May 2010 13:10 |
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I don’t work in the games industry, I tried my hardest to break into it as a sound designer after I graduated; I looked for two years but never found a single job listing so I moved on. This isn’t a bitter rant but the first post about a major love in my life: gaming.
I’ve played games since I was little, from my first Vic 20 and NES right through to my current 360, interspersed with a bout of PC ‘hardcore’ gaming (until I went to uni and could no longer afford to keep my machine up to scratch). I’d like to write posts about all my favourite games, considering how many titles have been released over the last 15-20 years, there’s not that many.
I was reading the current Edge, specifically a feature regarding Halo: Combat Evolved. I couldn’t believe that it’s been 9 years since an obscure shooter, ported from the Mac, was chosen as a launch title for a console taking on the great Nintendo and Sony. To my mind (red ring of death aside), the best thing Microsoft has ever done.
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