sickofitall

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lrn4JMxsN_o

Yeah, you need Steam to play it, which I’m not too impressed about.

As you can see from the videos it was billed as a zombie shooter but they changed their minds and turned it into a game where 4 of you are stuck in Liverpool having missed the last train home and you have to get out of there before the scousers overpower you and take your wallet.

If you’ve got 2 or 3 mates who will buy it then it’s definitely worth getting but buy a boxed version because the exchange rate is all tits up and everything is charged in dollars on Steam.

Yeah, I got it last night. It’s a good game but all those dirty slack jawed idiots everywhere – it reminds me of that time I went to Preston.

@Alzir wrote:

But in short, PES is a fast, simpllistic arcade version of football.

Never thought I’d see that said about a PES game 😯 Compared to fifa I thought it was always the more sim version of football, but then I’ve not played much of either of them since leaving uni. Have things changed that much in recent versions?

Yeah, they swapped places last year on that front, though this was down to FIFA totally changing. PES didn’t change, Pes hasn’t moved forward noticeably since about 2002 though, so no surprises there.

PES is the same game it was on the PS2, only with fancier graphics. At least you know what you’re getting I suppose.

I’m with Insane on this – it was ISS/PES all the way for me up until last year but FIFA is just a better game now. And what’s with all that shite commentary they have on these things these days? I’m still waiting for them to bring back Alan John-sonn from ISS Deluxe. He’s the best commentator there has ever been on a football game.

@xdc the doc wrote:

I seem to detect a lot of Chinaski’s personality in SOIA’s online persona – coincidence?

I can only think you must have been talking to Emma, Doc:

@sickofitall wrote:

Found my copy of this at the weekend so here’s a good place to recommend it.

See, this book is significant because it’s the only one I think a girl has ever used as a reason to dump me. Which also happens to be how I came to read it in the first place.

You know what it’s like, you meet a girl, turn on bullshit mode to trick them into liking you and then spend the next few weeks trying to keep it up and get a jump. Then the facade gets to be a bit too much to be bothered with and you revert to just being yourself. Then reality kicks in for her. Suddenly she turns around one day and tells you she’s splitting up with you on account of you being an apathetic, shallow, nihilistic drunk and you stand there with a look of utter bemusement on your face thinking bloody hell woman, if this is a break up then why the fuck are you listing all my good points?!.

So yeah, on her way out this lass once told me that I was like that man in that post office book. So out of curiosity I went out and got a copy and read it. Thanking her later for her kind words only seemed to rile her further, looking back I don’t think she meant it as a compliment.

So Post Office, a novel for anyone who hates work and the fucking jobsworths who try to tell you it’s important, likes getting drunk and could never make head nor tail of women (see above). This book is about you. You should read it.

Give her my regards. Oh, and do feel free to remind the girl that I’ve had her, and no amount of bitterness on her part can change that fact. Hey ho!

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****SPOILER COMING UP****

Will Smith is still an annoying cunt.

I completed it on the 360. Characters in it were the same old sci-fi 1 dimensional good/evil stereotype bollocks. The storyline was totally unoriginal and not unlike all these fucking awful third rate american sci fi series that constanly clutter up cable tv. The aliens were the usual collection of motiveless cyborgs and tree huggers.

And despite all this bile it still managed to be a bloody good game. Who’d have thought it?

(*edit* but as story driven games go “The Witcher” shat on it and going back donkeys years “Vampire Bloodlines” was also far more atmospheric.)

It’s only a demo though so I’ve not got my hopes up. The CoD4 demo was really impressive but it got mucked up a bit by having some terrible missions late on (but fair do’s, two-third of the campaign was bloody good) and having probably the worst multiplayer game I’ve ever played.

The Crysis demo was even better then I ended up floating upside down shooting fucking luminous blue mermaid things when I got the game.

So I’m expecting to get it, play through it once and then wonder why I bothered. But I’ll have spent my money like a chump by then and that’s the main thing.