Published on November 17, 2008 By Island Dog In Gaming

On the PC front I tackled with Galactic Civilizations II for a few hours, and then I just had to break away from the PC for the rest of the weekend.  Gal Civ II is one of my favorite games, so it was fun to get back into it again, especially after the 2.0 update.

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On the console front I played a bit of NBA Live ā€˜09, which is quite fun.  Iā€™m not really a big sports person, but this game is really fun to play.

There are so many games I want to pickup, but I wish a few had demos available.  In particular, one for Red Alert 3 would be nice.

So, what did you play this weekend?


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on Nov 17, 2008

This weekend?  Between rounds of editing papers, it was Wrath of the Lich King for me.  My Dwarven Death Knight, Durstof, is lvl 61 now and is plodding through the outland content as quickly as possible

I haven't even touched my lvl 70 paladin more than getting him into northrend and setting his hearth to the in in Howling Fijord.

on Nov 17, 2008

I recently acquired a Guitar Hero World Tour Complete Band Kit for the Wii. I have to say, it is the coolest game I have ever played on any game console. Talk about bringing my air-guitar and air-drums dreams to life. I am planing on writing an article about my experience with it, stay tunned.

My PC is not doing to good so was unable to try out Call of Duty World at War, but look forward to it very soon.

on Nov 17, 2008

I'm not a huge gamer, quite often going the better part of a year between playing anything. There are two franchises that I make exceptions for-

1) Turn based strategy, the last good one being Gal Civ series before that the classics like MOO and Civilization

2) Fallout- never really got into RPG's but for some reason the fallout franchise I dig bigtime!

This weekend I bought fallout 3 and it is AMAZING.

If you have a PC that can run it or an Xbox-360, I highly recommend it. If nothing else it's worth it since you can make your own weapons, like a bazooka-type thing with a vacuum cleaner and other assorted parts, shooting random junk you find like tin cans or pencils

Or, if you find an old lunch box, some bottlecaps and a cherry bomb you can make an improvised landmine, and so on.

And, the bonus of it all is that you're playing in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that you really don't get to see too often in a lot of gaming environments.

Fallout 3- more than worth it's weight in gold (or pixelated gold, whatever)

on Nov 17, 2008

I checked out the Mirror's Edge demo...it's pretty awesome.  Might have to pick that one up.

~Zoo

on Nov 17, 2008

I've only got one game installed; Race Driver GRID.
So I guess that's the game I've been playing

on Nov 17, 2008

Left 4 Dead > *

on Nov 18, 2008

World of Goo!

Simple, yet very addictive. Lately I've started to feel that PC gaming is in a rut. Flashy graphics with little substance, tons of mediocre sequels and cookie cutter products is the norm these days, but then this game comes out and I see a glimmer of hope.

on Nov 18, 2008

WotlK

on Nov 18, 2008

TA 2.0, Overlord, Bullet Candy(great little game especially for the price).

Looking hard at World of goo. Looks pretty cool