Blown away by Section 8
After a few exciting weeks playing open betas it’s finally time to un-install these Gigabyte hoggers and reclaim some of my hard disc.
First was Champions Online, which is now live and appears to doing a good job so far and I believe I glanced a Tweat about a first free expansion.
The second open beta client to be removed is that of the rather pretty Fallen Earth, I didn’t really get much chance to play about on this as my Graphics card was having issues. I hope to get chance to revisit this game when I have more time on my hands.
The third open beta I have been playing is a FPS game called Section 8, I heard about the game while listening to the Gamers with jobs podcast. I have to admit that I believed I wasn’t going to enjoy this game as it looks like another hopper populated FPS, that was being developed for the console market with a PC port thrown in for good measure.
Boy was I wrong. This open beta with only a fraction of the skills and maps was completely wonderful and didn’t become repetitive for each match. The match were long enough to be fun and allowed you to get into the swing of things, but not drawn-out where you end up praying for the match to finish. The customisable load-outs and suits gave a superior feeling to the standard FPS game we tend to get sucked into these days, combine that with the ability to “Drop” anywhere on the map makes this game ideal for the quick drop in gamer.
The game will also feature a single player campaign with the multi-player remaining the backbone of the product.
During post match chatter I read the following “Win or lose, you feel like you have achieved something in this game, and it’s fun”.
Section 8 is out for the PC and XBox360 on Friday 4th September (I believe), no doubt there will be demos around. So if you are looking for a game to perhaps tide you over until Modern Warfare 2 arrives in November, perhaps you should give Section 8 a whirl.
Coincidence
On Thursday I was in work and ploughing through my work and enjoying some background noise of a batch of podcasts I had recently downloaded. One of these was Warp-drive active, which started with a rather fun “Boys are back in town” which made me chuckle.
Later that day on my bus journey home was listening to extended version of Anthrax’s Sound of white noise album which has a rather cool cover of Thin Lizzys Cowboy Song, two occurances
So during a late night game of Ryzom (that had just downloaded, more soon) I finally gave in and stuck on Dedication : The very best of Thin Lizzy, which suited the game rather well.
Sunday night Mr. Dok came around and with Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits and GH: Metallica both of which totally rocked. We rocked out to a awesome selection of different tunes, damn hard at times tho. Of course we finished the evening with a The boys are back in town again.
Continuing this list of linked occurrences I put the radio on while having a bath and happened upon Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds on radio 2. It wasn’t the original but a recently recorded version, but when I turned it on just happened to be at the section “Parson Nathaniel”, which in the original recording was performed by Phil Lynott.
I thought at the time, I should really get a re-mastered version of the musical. So I was well please when I tuned in to the Through the Aftermath podcast and heard a rather fantastic version of the War of the Worlds radio broadcast as performed by Jonathan.
Varied past-times
A big thank you to Dok, for the 360 bought for Rach and I as a wedding present, very unexpected and
I had to admit I have been avoiding purchasing one before now, mostly due to the expected impact on our time. But honestly who am I kidding, it’s all very cool. The SEGA MegaDrive collection is wonderful and we soon got stuck in playing Golden Axe, Streets of rage, Sonic and Altered Beast.
We joined in with the Console club on Tuesday for many laughs and crashes on Burnout : Paradise. I’ve played a few hours on Halo 3 and Gears of War 2, but I struggle with the first person perspective on the controller and long for a mouse and keyboard.
I’m sure I will struggle over games that are released on both the XBox and PC.
My lines can be clearly drawn for some genres but blured for others, for example Racing and Beat ‘em ups are always more fun on consoles, but as a said I do prefer PCs for FPS’s.
Which games do prefer on the PC and which on the console?
