There is a reckoning...a Crysis...

Why am I blogging at past 3am? Woke up to muscular pain due to playing a Wii. I've rubbed some of this oil thingymabob and now instead of pain there is a stinging warmness that takes the pain away.

First of all, to the reason of muscular pain. There was a Wii Party at Dorothy's place, a uni friend of mine. Everyone bought a dish for the dinner while a light lunch and nibbles were provided. I came on time, but one of my friends was late from the airport and that held up the rest of the group who were waiting at Lidcombe station to drive them there. So it was near 1pm when everyone actually arrived. But it was a lot of fun and forced me to examine my views on the Wii.

I've always viewed the Wii as innovative but something of a lightweight. The style of play on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 has always appealed to me more then the motion controls of the Wii, and certainly for some games the use of motion controls are questionable as to whether it was really effective. However, the Wii is actually quite revolutionary. The motion controls are dead simple to use and the party games are definitely much fun at the very least. And while the Wii is still a lightweight in terms of graphics and power, I'm sure Nintendo has a Wii 2 in planning that will offer better graphics and performance.

Onto some gaming now, since that's what I've been doing these past few weeks in the holidays. I have played Crysis and Call of Duty 4. Crysis lives up to the hype. It's a graphically beautiful game, and the freedom given to you to achieve objectives is wonderful. However, the game does lean towards the run-and-gun style of gaming. I've played it three times, one of times I tried not to kill anyone at all but its quite difficult. Your cloaking powers don't last that long while running and taking a long route is...well...long. Sometimes you have to kill enemy soldiers so that they don't alert their comrades. Still a very good game.

Call of Duty 4, however, is a bit of a mixed bag for me. It plays more or less exactly like Call of Duty 2 but with better graphics and new weapons. It's nothing revolutionary, more evolutionary. Still, like Call of Duty 2, it paced well and is a great ride. The plot is decent and I liked how it drew you into it. Multiplayer is blast, according to my brother. It's easy to kill and even easier to be killed. The more people you kill, the more you level up which gives you greater access to better weapons and better powers. I'll be trying that out tomorrow.

I still have Stranglehold and Kane and Lynch to play, although Kane and Lynch wasn't rated that highly by Gamespot. Also I'm reading several books which I'll do a quick review later.

Maybe now I'll get some sleep.