Battles and some of Modern kind

For some reasons it's nice to have different release dates for North America and Europe - even if in most cases it's kind of annoying. In this one my preorder has been shipped already, not today, not yesterday, but at sunday (local time). Today is release day of Battlefield 3 in NA. Tomorrow in Australia. 28. day in Europe. Luckily I have stuff to do before the EU launch, but hopefully not too much.

While waiting for the release, I should play other games while I can. Few days back I got back for PS3 games. Tested PS Move once again with Sports Champions, which is quite nice if you ask me. Many gamers don't like the Move at all, but once you get used to it, it's not as bad everybody says it to be. Move still has low game count, but it doesn't mean it sucks. It is hard to do a good game for Move to it actually work smoothly and to be addictive. Yeah, the price is little bit high (games are little pricey too), but if you have cash left with your other purchases, why not try this one out.

But enough of Move.

Battle at Hu Lao gate - beware the almighty Lu Bu!

With Sports Champions to Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce. I believe the Dynasty Warriors may be known series for some. It is one of many titles from Tecmo Koei. As I liked Dynasty Warriors 4 Hyper (PC) years ago, I wanted to try this one out, one reasons to be the good price. But as I played, it might be quite difficult game, even if you tweek the difficulty settings pretty low (or I'm just bad player in this game). Maybe I'll play Bayonetta next time with PS3...

Another game I could play as I wait BF3 is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Even if I don't like it much as the first two games, it makes more harm not to play paid game. Graphics are nice yes, but this time I'm going to for game mechanics more. MW3 has pretty smooth settings (not the plot), but configs for keyboard changes (example: toggle buttons) are not there. You can change some keys for toggle, but not all. Ironsight and crouch can be changed to toggle, so you don't have to press them twice to go crouch and back up.
When I played the multiplayer first time some time ago (free weekend and maybe it was with 2x XP amount) it was fun, at the time didn't quite notice few things which made my decision of the game in the future (aka. today) change to not as fun as it was. One feature that I don't like is the kill spree award system, where you get chance to use harriets or other aircraft to almost instantly kill enemies (or other "usefull" stuff against opponents).

This all reminded how much I liked the first games in the series (sad they don't have multiplayer though). Love for the first game in the CoD series newer will go numb. They were simple as raindrops and someway entertaining for gamers in that genre. And as written before, 1 and 2 were the only games I played with every difficulty setting, or almost all of them. Still remember one-man mission in the first game - god I hated it so much. And the escape afterwards was pain in the ass. Times change and so does games do. Some to good some to bad and maybe some in between.

But when you think things through, every game has it's own problems and some may not even be that. All depends on players and their opinions what works for them.

FPS with old one

Call of Duty

I still remember, when I was playing the best first-person-shooters at the time. Though I'm not sure what was the first fps game I started playing with, but unfortunately Quake, Doom and Wolfenstein 3D (etc) weren't on the list. Actually I have never played them - sadly - and maybe never will. A lot gamers tell you, Quake and Doom were the best shooters there was (at the time, and still maybe). I might never play them, mainly because I have no inspiration to play them and I would suck a lot playing those.

But anyways. Call of Duty was one of the games, and maybe the only game I played on every difficulty level. Hardest wasn't even hard, more like annoying in some parts. Second in series I played almost on every level, except one. Was so bored to play it again. Now that I think of it, this might be the reason I don't play newer CoD games on every difficulty, it just gets so boring getting through the levels - or specially with the annoying levels or part of levels.

Enemy Territory - Battery map with Allied beach invasion

And if you remember my previous post, most impact for me in fps genre, has been made with Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (in short: ET or W:ET). The days when I played it days and nights, so much fun. I still play it too, exept not all the time. Biggest reason I quitted for few years was newer games and the servers on W:ET, that uses so many mods which pisses me of. I'm quite fond of Jaymod (little bit for No Quarter), but that's it.