Posts Tagged ‘ sandbox ’

[Prototype]

Jun 15th, 2009 | By leimrod | Category: Games

I have a subscription with a game rental company here in Ireland where I basically build a queue of games that are soon to be released and they send me them when they come in stock. However, I very rarely get a game on the day of release due to demand. The game [prototype] was [...]



Mercenaries 2

Mar 20th, 2009 | By leimrod | Category: Games

This game had kind of been sitting on the back burner for a while. After playing through the first half of GTA IV (I’ve never finished it) and feeling largely underwhelmed, it kind of left a bad taste in my mouth in regards to sandbox games. I then played Far Cry 2, another sandbox game but in first person, and while it was good it suffered from GTA IV’s same crippling problem, and that was having all this freedom and nothing really to do with it. It’s all well and good being able to walk around a seemingly infinite world, but if all I can do is smell the virtual roses then what is the point?