A disService to a Rally Game.

Yesterday I found in the Oxfam Bookshop close to where I live a copy of Sega Rally for the PS3 for £2.99 new and sealed!  I felt like a thief buying it and will feel like a vandal when I open it.  I almost feel that it is a shame that games are sometimes undervalued by some shops, even though another part of me enjoys finding and buying games at a bargain price.

I am almost tempted to sell it and buy myself a second hand copy on ebay but I know I won't.  It is on my list of PS3 games I still want and it was cheap so I suppose I'm allowed to have it but I have not played much of Motorstorm yet so I will play more of that before I move on to another racing game.

inFamous - Bourne to be Bad

Today a posted a new video on my YouTube channel.  It is a quick sample of gameplay from the first Infamous game on PS3.  You can watch it here: (apologies, I have since removed this).

I have so far found the game fun to play and there seems to be plenty to do.  In one mission it was quite hard to find the locations I was supposed to be visiting but generally it has been well signposted.

This is one of quite a few PS3 games I've been posted sample videos of lately.  You can find a link to my YouTube channel in the left column of this page.

One PS3 game I have played lately but will not be posting a clip of is The Bourne Conspiracy.

The Bourne films contain intense fighting and shooting and great improvisation by the lead character.  Think of the first film where JB is in a house in a remote part of France and looks around to find a shotgun and ammo and then shoots a propane tank to create a plume of smoke and moves around a wide area under the cover of it.  In the second film he fights using a rolled up magazine as a weapon.

In both scenes you are given the sense that if these improvisations had not been available he would have thought of something else; as you are at other points in the trilogy.  The Bourne Conspiracy features no choices or opportunities for using initiative.  Just linear and clumsy shooting and fighting.  I cannot recommend it.  The only proviso I would make to this is that I could stand so much and no more so have not played the game to the end.

New Playlist on YouTube: Neverwinter Nights 2

I have recently started putting new vids on my YouTube channel so I am also going to re-start using this blog to make a diary of all my gaming related activity.  This will include what I am playing, what I am watching and posting on YouTube and my thoughts on what I read in the gaming media.

I have recently started a playthrough of Neverwinter Nights 2.  I have not played the game for a good while so in the early videos I am feeling my way a bit but I am now up to part 14 (the clips are generally 15-20 minutes long), and I'm getting a bit more fluent.

This is a link to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/PetracoGaming/featured

The characters and script of the game are where it's charm is and plenty of more modern and technically sophisticated games could learn a thing or two from it.  Whenever a new character is introduced it is obvious that the writers have made an effort to develop them rather than simply writing them a few lines which are purely for information.

Well done to Obsidian for this classic but will there ever be a Neverwinter Nights 3?