November 2005
2 posts
A day in San Andreas
Since I’ve not played anything new in quite a while, I picked up a copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas yesterday. Short summary: It rapidly proved just as intoxicatingly good as previous installments in the series and so it didn’t get put down until long after I should have been in bed.
While I played, I jotted down some notes - things I noticed about the game’s design, things...
First impressions of Trespasser
Trespasser was a game that passed me by when it was first released. Though I found myself aware that it joined the hall of fame of games that suffered from overhype and underdelivery, my knowledge of it was, until recently, best summed up as “that Jurassic Park game with the physics and The Arm”.
With the arrival of proper physics simulations in games (and specifically, their...