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Feb 9th, 2008 at 16:50:47 - Age of Empires (PC) |
Gameplay:
The second time i sat down to play my roommate noticed and mentioned he used to love the game. We decided to try out the multi player and fight each other. this turned out to be awesome. Not only was it the same fun game, but I was fighting my roommate. We did a lot of smack talking which added to the excitement and it was overall very fun. I ended up beating him quite badly three or four times which probably made it even more fun for me aside from the fact that he wont play me until he practices more. We played the large islands map where each team was on its own island to start. I found that the best initial attack was as many ships as I could and wipe out everything within range. This meant I needed tons of wood so I had almost all my villagers collecting wood. After sending in about 15 ships I made sure I had some transport boats full of elephants ready to be sent over to destroy what was left. This proved very affective. Another strategy I used was to upgrade as much as possible before actually building anything. The only downside to this was that I was left vulnerable to attack for some time without much defense. The solution to this was watch towers and tons of them. These gems took a while to build but with enough were virtually impenetrable.
Design:
The design of this game was really quite good. It forced me to develop strategies to take out the enemy and protect myself. I did find it a bit frustrating once everything had been upgraded to max. I wish things had the ability to continue to get better. Unfortunately this is not reasonable. Another thing that would have been nice would be to have resources replenish over time. Once you are out, you are simply out. It would be nice to have trees regrow and gold to form over time. Overall though the game was very fun and kept me engaged for quite some time. Although not flawless it is one of the better games i have played.
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Feb 9th, 2008 at 16:38:03 - Age of Empires (PC) |
Summary
Age of Empires is a real time strategy guide. You must collect resources (wood, gold, food, and stone) in order to build things. Villagers collect these things. Buildings, as well as combat units can be built. The combat units include: catapults, chariots, watch towers, etc. These units perform as well as you have upgraded them to. Resources must be used to upgrade units. The object of the game is to conquer another civilization similar to yours.
Gameplay:
I have always been a fan of real time strategy games (Red Alert, age of empires 2) so i decided to play the original AoE. It was indeed very simple but proved to be quite a lot of fun. I quickly mastered the game using my skills from AoE2. I found myself advancing rather quickly to the iron age and having a much higher score than my opponents. One thing that became very frustrating was that no matter how much better than the other civilizations I was it still took forever to destroy them. I found that catapults destroyed buildings the best but the were easily destroyed by the enemy. My solution was to get a ton of archers to protect the catapults. This was a very successful technique. After a while it appeared that this strategy worked very well. The next problem i ran into was running out of resources. Not only was I out of gold but there was no gold left on the map to be mined. This posed a problem since most everything takes gold to build. The solution was ships. Ships only take wood to build and i have yet to use all of a maps wood. Forests are everywhere. This worked really well aside from the buildings that were to far from the shore for ships to reach. Lastly, I brought in everything I had and just cleaned up. Priests worked really well to convert things to mine also. This whole thing took a surprising amount of time. I ended up playing for more than 4 hours before being done. Time flew and it was kind of embarrassing how much time i spent playing the game
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Jan 26th, 2008 at 11:21:26 - Wii Sports (Wii) |
GAMEPLAY:
The second round of play for me did not get old at all. More and more laughs were to be had. The regular game play did not tire but we were still able to find more fun things to do. One thing that became more fun than the game it self was the making of the Mii. With limited options we were able to create a cartoon version of ourselves to play with. Every person that entered the house had a character made for them whether they wanted or not. Of course we made sure that everyone was unique and funny. For instance we made sure to "accentuate" all features of the Mii. My Mii, had a goofy smile and was very tall and lanky. All in all we had quite the motley crue of Miis running around the baseball diamond or hitting up the links.
Another feature I found fun was the fitness test. Playing various one player games you could test hot fit you Mii was. The would measure it by giving you a corresponding age. It seemed that 85 was about the oldest and most out of shape and 18 was the youngest and most in shape. First time i took the test i got a shocking 85. Of course this was good laughs for everyone that was watching who tested far better. The neat thing about the test was that you could only take it once every 24 hour period. The goal was to practice all day and night and hopefully test better the following day. Well, we saw this as a challenge and played pretty much all day and sure enough tested again and was about 40 this time. The game was awesome, never were we board, it kept us engaged the entire time.
DESIGN:
The design of this game is close to flawless. one flaw we found is that the Wiimotes need to have better attachments to ones hand. We now have a hole in our ceiling from a tennis serve going a bit crazy. Even this "flaw" seemed to bring us more joy than any video game ever has. We ended up rolling on the ground laughing for a good 10 minutes before realizing the money to fix it may be coming out of our security deposit. The game design in general is so fun because of its new concept. Instead of pushing the A button to swing the bat i simply swing the remote. The harder you swing the harder the Mii swings. We did however find ways to beat the system. a simple fast flick at the wrist saved us the energy of taking a full on baseball swing. This was good news because the next morning when we all woke up our shoulders were sore.
It would be great to see more games available like basketball, volleyball, or really anything. Another frustrating thing is the price of everything if you want to play four player. The game only comes with one Wii mote and you have to buy 3 more and 3 additional nun chucks (used to box with two hands). This totals well over 100 bucks which is pretty steep. Although expensive it is well worth it. The game design of this game is unlike any other as we have yet to become bored of it.
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Jan 26th, 2008 at 11:04:12 - Wii Sports (Wii) |
SUMMARY:
Wii sports is a game that is included when you purchase a Nintendo Wii. There are five games you can play: golf, tennis, baseball, boxing, and bowling. Using the Wiimote players must mimic the actions used when playing the sports in real life in order to control the character. The game is a great virtual reality simulator.
GAMEPLAY:
This game was brought home by my roommate and we began playing. From the very start it was clear that this game would not help our study habits out at all. The game was so fun and interactive that the four of us found ourselves playing for hours. We played tried each of the sports and enjoyed them all. After about thirty minutes it became clear that each of us had a sport we were better than the others at. This made it fun to challenge each other or make bets that revolved around the game. For example: Loser does dishes. My strength was the golf. Right off the bat i was hitting birdies and gaining Wii points. Wii points were gained based on the success of you player and once you got 1000 you became pro.
This game literally never got old. As long as someone was home there was someone standing in front of the television playing Wii Sports. The most fun four player game was by far tennis. All four players are on the screen simultaneously playing at the same time on the same court. unlike the other games where you must take turns to play (i.e. take turns batting, bowling or golfing). Unlike those games tennis had all players engaged until the end of every point. Sometimes there would even be some contact between players by the "accidental" hitting of opponent with the Wiimote as they serve. All in all this game was awesome and did not disappoint.
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