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Someone saw this?

Interesting stuff: I just saw that a site called Trembling Hand wrote a blog post about this little page. Update: And apparently some twitter users and Boing Boing’s Offworld as well. No idea how they got that idea, but thanks anyway! Of course, I guess by the time I’ve written this, everybody who did find the site through that link will have left again already…

So, this site probably seems a little dead. Or more like really dead. Sorry about that, folks. To be honest, I have been thinking about closing it completely because in the end, I think it did not turn out to be as funny as I thought. I’ll have to think about this some more, see whether I can find things to post here that are more interesting and/or funny. And maybe play a few more games so I’ll actually have something to write about…

Oh, in case you’re interested (I know you’re not, but any link might help my Google Page Rank), you can also look at my much-more-frequently updated personal homepage.

Posted July 3rd, 2009, 21:05 | 3 Comments

Not dead yet...

Hello again! You may have thought this site was completely dead. Well, not completely. There’s a review of Team Fortress 2 coming up, and of course I reserve the right to post completely random crap here as well. Today, I want to take a look at some upcoming games.

The problem of course is that I have no damn clue about most games that are coming up, but there are some I’m excited about. The one I’m most excited about is Mirror’s Edge, shown above. The best description for the game is the first trailer, which is just raw gameplay. If you don’t have the time for watching that right now, imagine the jumping and running of Tomb Raider or Prince of Persia, only in first-person. Sounds insane, looks like fun, but the problem is that while godless heathens, i.e. console owners, get it like any day now, PC users will have to wait until January.

As for the train relation, well, you see the subway up there, don’t you? As far as I can tell the type looks vaguely correct for modern south-east asia, the important question is whether it’ll have a correct third rail for electricity, since it clearly has no overhead wire.

I mentioned Tomb Raider above. There’s a new one of that one as well. To be honest, I really didn’t follow the TR Underworld discussion at all. I didn’t even play the demo. It is pre-ordered (via Amazon), so I guess I’ll continue to ignore it right until I start playing it.

Finally, there’s Left 4 Dead, and I’m really not certain what to make of that. It’s a co-op zombie shooting game by Valve. Now, that would only be useful for LAN parties, and I’ve not been to many LAN parties recently. It has one thing going for it, though, and that is that it’s by Valve. As the count of games in the reviews section of this site should tell you, I’m a huge Valve fan, and I recently fell in love deeply with Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat Source, both games that I didn’t use to be interested in before I played them. If L4D was 20€, I’d have probably already pre-ordered it and would be playing the pre-release demo, but as it stands, I’m waiting for the demo for the rest of the world before I make a real decision based on that.

Oh, by the way

Something I neeearly forgot: If you’re into Half-Life 2’s trains, then I recommend the site http://www.train-photo.ru/. I don’t understand anything the site is saying, but the pictures of russian (or at least former soviet union) trains are great. While the level of detail that Valve implemented in Half-Life 2 can be disputed, it seems that they managed to catch the overall look perfectly modulo the game’s storyline-based desolation.

Posted November 6th, 2008, 13:00 | 1 Comment

Age of Empires III

Good morning! Björn sent me some screenshots again, this time of Age of Empires III, which appears to have a train.

Go read the review!

While we’re at it, he also sent me some additional screenshots from Unreal Tournament 3, so don’t hesitate to look at that review again!

Posted May 22nd, 2008, 09:02 | 3 Comments

Unreal Tournament 3

Someone sent me a couple of screenshots from Unreal Tournament 3 and told me I could do a review of it. Since I haven’t done too much here in ages, I jumped at the opportunity. For what it’s worth, the train is better than I would have expected.

Go read the review, because if you don’t your time spent reading this will have been wasted!

Posted May 19th, 2008, 22:23 | 0 Comments

Best and worst train levels

I’ll be the first to admit that this site hasn’t been updated as much as it should and is more or less a failure so far. As an appeasement, here a short link someone sent to me.

On a forum called NeoGAF (no, I don’t know what that means either) someone opened a thread about railroad levels in games. Looks interesting, although it looks at the levels mainly from a gaming point of view, less about railroads.

Posted May 12th, 2008, 14:27 | 0 Comments