The Game Druid

Surprised anyone? Not really I would say, becuase the game is SO FRIGGIN awesome!! It’s actually the feeling of being mmmm.. God like? that makes it so cool. Sure, you had tons of other games like black and white and civilization and stuff, but yeah, this gives you so much MORE!

Anyway, according to Voodoo Extreme, here’s the top ten list of games:

• 1. Spore Creature Creator - Electronic Arts
• 2. The Sims 2 Double Deluxe - Electronic Arts
• 3. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures - Funcom/Eidos
• 4. World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade - Blizzard
• 5. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
• 6. World Of Warcraft: Battle Chest - Blizzard
• 7. The Sims 2 FreeTime - Electronic Arts
• 8. The Sims 2 Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff - Electronic Arts
• 9. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Activision
• 10. Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures - LucasArts

Enjoi

The Game Druid

Rats - that reminds me to upload the Spore videos and finish the Sims 2 review

I’ve said this a million times, Wii IS next gen! Recently a Reuters report came out saying that the Wii out sould the PS3 despite its 700% increase in sales, in Japan though. In a piece headlined “Sony PS3 catching up to Wii in Japanese sales,” Reuters’ Tokyo branch covers the horse race, writing that the Wii “once again outsold Sony Corp’s PlayStation 3 in Japan in June, but its lead is fading.” While technically accurate if referring to monthly sales – the Wii only outsold the PS3 by a margin of 1.7 to 1 last month, a dip from the 6 to 1 margin of the previous month – the bigger picture isn’t so clear.

so this is totally turning out to be 2 console race (sorry 360 ), anyway, i wonder whats gonna happen next, cuz I don’t see any game on the PS3 coming soon which will create a boom like MGS 4.. and no GT5 doesn’t count.

Most of yawl have already played this :

Guitar Hero III - XBOX 360

Well we have just downloaded the new firmware update 2.40 for the Sony PlayStation 3, and here are a few thoughts:

1) The friend’s category has been redesigned and has now been upped to support 100 (yes..big deal)

2) The long awaited “Trophy” feature has now been added, depending if the game supports this feature you can now “Collect Trophies” for that game. If you wish to see your friend’s trophies, go to their profile and to view your own go to “Game” the “Trophy Collection”.

3) In game chat has been given a major boost, by being able to exchange messages with friends and family during gameplay. This is achieved by pressing the “PS” button and using the functions from the “XMB” (XrossMediaBar), you can also search the Internet from the XMB screen via a google bar which is now incorporated. Although the search results take a little time to show up, but that is also due to the internet problems I’ve been having over the last 2 days.

Anyway to cap it off, here’s some more dope…The following first-party games are also slated to offer Trophy support:

• BUZZ! Quiz TV
• LittleBigPlanet
• MotorStorm Pacific Rift
• NBA 09 - PS3
• PAIN*
• PixelJunk Eden
• Resistance 2
• SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation
• Warhawk*

*Requires a game update to be downloaded and installed.

Cheers

The Game Druid

well the post i put up earlier, flooded my inbox… do I really have the spore game?

My bad. I meant to say Spore Creature Creator. Yeah, old news that. But we’re still getting the game a few weeks before the release date after confirming with TOI, our supplier. So Stay tuned for that too

I’m sure you’ve already head about the latest and apparently greatest upcoming horror game from EA called Dead Space…

Here’s the story so far: Earth’s appetite for natural resources has become a major motivator for deep space exploration. When the communications go dead for the privately-owned mining ships called “planetcrackers” goes dead, Systems engineer Isaac Clarke was sent in to fix the problem. Once boarded, he discovered a malevolent alien presence and was left alone and weaponless to survive this horror ordeal.

Sounds great eh? um..the druid’s here are not too impressed. However…

The key success of survival horror games such as Resident Evil, Silent Hill and Dino Crisis to name a few, is the element of surprise and new generation features that were introduced. Survival horror is about experiencing a terrifying, and deeply personal fiction.

So Quoting EA on this game’s features:

Strategic Dismemberment – The core game mechanic is the strategic and brutal dismemberment of Necromorph appendages. It’s all about seeing bone fragments and arterial spray fly across the room.

Terrifying Setting and atmosphere – An immersive, interactive horror movie experience. State-of-the art graphics and effects built on an EA proprietary engine, an emergent, panic-inducing audio system, and a nuanced, scary pace will wrench you headlong into the terror.

Zero gravity – Survive and destroy the Necromorphs in zero G environments. Manipulate gravity with Havok physics to solve puzzles and destroy the infestation.

Thrilling story – Isaac will discover the Ishimura’s fate by picking up the last logs of the Ishimura’s murdered and hideously transformed crew. The game experience is just a small part of a larger story tapestry that extends through different media and line extensions.

I think the features look super cool from here, it all depends on execution (remember Max Payne??). We’ll have more on this next week, but for now, here’s a screen shot for you to drool over

Oh and also over the next couple of days, we’re getting loads of new Xbox 360 games shipped to us. So expect tons of reviews 

So we’ve just been shipped our Spore review DVD. Stay tuned for this as we’ll give you a comprehensive update once we’re rattled, rolled and ravaged this baby ;P

If you haven’t heard about Spore yet, check it out here

cheers

The Game Druid

YEAH BABY!!! WE’RE BACK AND AAALIIIIVEEE!!!!

I can’t tell you how happy this makes me…The Game Druid is over 2 years old and it shows now! We’ve managed to recover all our old posts! Save for the posts between december 2007 and feb 2008.

But its all here!!! Now that we’ve got this MAJOR issue sorted out, its time to get back to good old blogging the way you readers love it!!

Now a few other things I need sorted out are a few links and the tags and categories. I’ll do that in due course..over 250 posts to go through u know

Stay tuned, cuz now that we’re back… We’re BETTER than EVER!

It seems that Gamespot had an affair with StarCraft..here’s an excerpt

While the big announcement at this weekend’s 2008 Blizzard Worldwide Invitational was the announcement of Diablo III, strategy fans had plenty to cheer, as the show floor contained a section specifically devoted to StarCraft II. Hundreds of PCs were on-hand, allowing attendees to be among the first in the world to play this highly anticipated sequel and, judging by the the attendance in the StarCraft II section, it seems attendees weren’t disappointed at all. We had a chance to spend some time with the game as well and, though there wasn’t a lot that was new in the game since our last look back in May, every chance to play StarCraft II is an enjoyable one.

read the whole story here

here’s a single screen shot for you to drool over

click on the image to view