Mirror's Edge

How sweet it is!!!

About two days ago I saw this image for a game in PC Gamer magazine next to an image of Assassin's Creed, with a mention of free-running, but I thought nothing of the other unknown game. Then today, I'm just surfing GameTrailers.com
and I come across this game video entitled "Mirrors Edge." The only reason I clicked on it was because the preview image had really nice visuals, and it was also listed as being a PC game. Since I'm buying mostly PC games right now, I clicked on it.

BOY, was I surprised! When the trailer started, I immediately noticed the incredible music that was playing, followed by the sounds of someone breathing as though they were running, and some footsteps. When the image faded in, the game was being played from a first-person perspective. You'll never guess what amazed me the most. Once I saw the person running, and heard the sounds of the character's breath, I immediately put two and two together and realized that this was a game based on something I have come to admire very much. I'm talking about Parkour(free-running). Over the past year and a half, I have been watching people performing Parkour and just recently I have decided that I was going to put some effort into learning this art. I would have never imagined that someone would create a game based on free-running, but boy am I glad they did. The game is being worked on by EA, and DICE as far as I know. You can be sure that I'll be getting this game for sure once it comes out.

The choice of music they included with the footage in this game trailer blew me away. The trailer itself provided the incredible experience of free-running, in my opinion. I am not super talented at Parkour yet, in fact I don't even have any real stylish moves yet, but I am good at massive jumps and the basics. But I still know the intense experience of feeling like you're flying high. That's pretty much what this well-assembled trailer provides.

Below is the video for the game I'm talking about. Check it out!!!

New To Team Fortress 2

Well, I've just bought Team Fortress 2 from Steam. I've been wanting to get the game, but never remembered to do so. I'd be online, but I always have Steam set to offline mode. So, I just skip over it every time. Anyway, I finally decided to launch Steam about an hour ago. I TF2, so I bought it. Unfortunately, I'm on my laptop, and my desktop at home is not connected to the internet, so I had to play with my laptop's touch pad, and ingame settings turned down. Most of them on low. Anyway, I still like the game and I plan on installing it on my gaming machine when I go back home after this semester. Also, I've been using steam for a long time, but I have not been logged in. So, today I updated my info, added a new avatar, and other junk. It's time to get serious.

Uh Oh!

Here They Go Attacking Games Again : GTA IV Robbery

I'd like to thank Artofwar for posting this video over on GameTrailers.com. I've got to say this is the stupidest thing the news could feature. It only fuels people like Jack Thompson. Is the news really that desperate for attention?

This video shows a news story in which some guy stole a copy of GTA IV from a Gamestop. This is just a failed attempt at a simple shoplifting, so why should this be featured in the news? I'll tell you why. The new GTA has been long awaited game by gamers and by the people that like to attack games. I think that they were just waiting for this game to come out so they could try to make games look bad some more. This is the kind of thing that really ticks me off. They would never feature a story if someone stole a copy of say half-life 2, or Assassin's Creed. People shoplift stuff all the time and you don't see that featured the way they featured this GTA story.

When the guy was questioned as to why he stole the game, he said "I just wanted it, so I took it." Then they go on to say that, Oh, this is what GTA makes people do. In my opinion that's bullshit! The guy desired the game so he took it. When people desire something enough and don't want to pay or can't pay they take it. It's just that simple. A game can't make someone do this.

I think that this is just going to fuel people like Jack Thompson, with all his assaults on video gaming. I don't know if you know this already, but a couple of weeks ago I think, Jack Thompson actually sent a letter to the chairman of Take Two's mother. He sent a friggin' letter to the chairman's mother! What the hell?! I don't remember the exact contents of the letter, but basically he was saying that the chairman is destroying the youth with games, or something like that. You might be able to find it somewhere online if you haven't seen it.

DAMN, I'm pissed now!

Let me know what you guys think.