I am not the only person that really likes Alpha Protocol. How it ranks compared to Mass Effect 2 is irrelevant in my opinion, they both stand tall on their own merits.
It also runs great on a notebook! In my case the notebook in question is a 2.8 Ghz C2D with a Nvidia Geforce 9600m GT.
11 ways Alpha Protocol is better than Mass Effect 2 | Fidgit.
Game of the year gets a musical tribute.
Launching a new intellectual property into the world of big budget games is risky, sequels are so much safer. But with its tantalizing blend of RPG and shooter game mechanics, Mass Effect was very close to the perfect game when it arrived in 2007. It got a lot of attention and sold plenty of copies even though it released in a storm of excellent titles. Personally, I lost track a long time ago of how many times I have completed that game on the Xbox 360 and PC – over a dozen times certainly.
What lured me back? The terrific writing and well-realized universe of Mass Effect is the main reason (although the poor quality and short staying power of triple A games that superceded it in 2008 and 2009 is another reason)
Needless to say, I was looking forward to the sequel, but could it live up to the hype?
Expect updates to this blog to slow right down due to chronic gaming habit. Yes, it is that time of year again when all the prettiest video games hit the scene in a retail fight to the death. How can I resist installing them on my MacBook Pro’s Windows 7 gaming partition? My November dollars are spent:
I really should do proper FRAPS tests, but I have been at this long enough to be able to ball park things quite accurately.
Games I won’t be playing:
For a crappy gaming platform, I sure do play a lot of games on my Mac. But I could not do it without Windows 7!
Can’t play your iTunes Music Store (iTMS) content on your strange device? Tough. That was never a condition of sale. The only thing Apple owes you is the right to play the content in their ecosystem – that was explicit agreement when you bought the content. Apple’s devices play DRM free content fine, so avoid DRM if you don’t like it. I bought one album in all the years’s Apple music was DRMed. Since DRM free music in iTMS and other providers like eMusic almost all of my music purchases have been electronic. Read the rest of this entry »
Only after completing the game three times did I start to fully realize how good Mass Effect was. Up to that point, it struck me as not quite delivering on the hype and promises made (mostly by Microsoft). You are probably wondering, what made you complete it even once if it was not what you were expecting? I was expecting a lot. Frankly I thought this would be a modern revision of the classic 1980′s sand box game ‘Elite.’ Such an ambitious game was never going to be perfect in every way with only 120 people developing it. Even with 1,000 people working on it would have been hard to fully realize Bioware’s vision. Read the rest of this entry »
It is the best role playing experience I’ve had since Oblivion, it is also one of the worst games I have played this year. It can be so punishing. Glitches and poor design choices mar this otherwise excellent experience. The Roach reference in the post title is related to the nastiest software bug I have seen in a shipping console game.
There are lots of alien bugs to shoot too, but those are OK and challenging in a good way. Read the rest of this entry »
