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Category: Games I Like

  • Pocket Frogs iPad/iPhone game surprisingly addictive

    The free Pocket Frogs game for iPad and iPhone doesn’t have much “game,” but it is strangely compelling and surprisingly addictive. This is one of those “freemium” games that are free to play, but to speed things up, the company will happily sell you (for real money, of course) coins or potions or mana that…

  • Halo Reach Space Fighting is Fun!

    The space fighting part of Halo Reach is the most fun, so far, but it was quite short, and since my Sabre was destroyed with the Covenant super-carrier, not likely to be repeated soon. The first video here shows part of the first space battle. It gets busier in the attack wave after the video,…

  • Halo Reach Turret Shooting

    Because Halo Reach put me more than an hour back in my game, I had a chance to relive some of my favorite moments so far. The first is as I’m being airlifted to a spire I need to shut down. I got to shoot from the turret and took out a lot of Covenant…

  • Halo Reach Save System Stinks

    A major annoyance with all the Halo games since Halo 2 (I forget how the original Halo was, so I can’t condemn it) is the stupid save system. You reach checkpoints as you play the game, and generally the checkpoints aren’t too far apart, but they usually aren’t as frequent as those in the Gears…

  • Halo Reach Space Fighting Fun

    Though I said the ground fighting of Halo Reach was pretty boring, I find the space fighting good fun. Sure, it’s pretty arcade-oriented, but there’s a bit of strategy (guns first to take down shields, then missiles to finish them off). The controls work pretty well as does the targeting reticle for the guns. So…

  • Halo Reach Boring?

    I’ve been playing Halo Reach and am enjoying it, but it is pretty boring. Many of the missions are at night, so the graphics are muted and uninteresting. The day missions are better, but there is not a sense of wonder, so far. In Halo, we found and explored a ringworld, while in Halos 2…

  • A Closer Look at KOTOR

    I played a bit more of Knights of the Old Republic and remembered the good and bad parts of it. The good (great) parts are the story and much of the combat. The combat is a combined real-time and turn-based mix that works pretty well. As you can see in the video below, I can…

  • Knights of the Old Republic back again

    Yesterday I picked up Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic on Steam for $2.50. I installed it and checked it out last night. Surprisingly enough, it worked flawlessly on Windows 7/64. The highest resolution it will support is 1600×1200, which looks pretty good.I had to use Creative ALchemy to re-enable EAX in the game,…

  • Halo Reach Not Bad So Far

    I managed to get a couple hours of play (well, more like an hour – see below) in for Halo Reach last night and it was pretty good. I had forgotten how to steer the warthogs, so I was having a miserable time for a while, but eventually remembered and that made things better. I…

  • Zombie Flick for iPhone

    If you have an iPhone or iPad check out Zombie Flick. It is a clever game in which you, a lone survivor must fight off zombies by throwing anything you have handy. It is easy to start but becomes a fun challenge as they attack from all sides.