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I just finished playing another PC game. It's called Second Sight. In a nutshell, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
You are Dr. John Vattic, initially a beat up, tortured looking psych patient. From there the story evolves into a truly engrossing timeline of events switching between current/future/past events. As John, you have a number of psychic abilities and you learn how to use a number of weapons.
The targeting is a lock-on type with some ability to aim. The coolest weapon is the sniper rifle. Its zoom function is unique to me. The zoom view doesn't take on the entire screen, but rather has an inset at the bottom right corner of your screen. It didn't take long to adjust, and it makes it easy to "plan" your next target because you can see the regular picture and therefore the character movements in the main picture.
The AI in the game is somewhat weak, but the story makes up for it. I found myself wanting to get to the next part of the story more and more as it progressed. I think I played this game as much for the action as for the story-line itself.
Gameplay allows you to attack the situations in numerous ways. You can attack with guns blazing, snipe, use your psychic abilities, and try to sneak around the situation. It makes each level a little more interesting.
One drawback is the save function. While in the game you have multiple checkpoints, however if you leave the game you must start at the beginning of that stage. It can be a little annoying but it didn't hurt too many times.
All in all, I really liked this game, and recommend it.
I've been playing this game for the last little while. It's been entertaining. Basically, the story goes that you're a marine in future Hong Kong. You die...then you get fixed up all bionic-like.
Then the real game begins. When I started playing it, it reminded me of the Deus Ex series. Later I read it was to be the continuation of that series but ended up as it is. The similarities are obvious. You are enhanced and as you go through the game you gain more enhancements. The weaponry is very similar to Deus Ex and the controls are too.
The gameplay is quick enough and challenging enough. The environment is pretty open and the objectives aren't too linear. The two biggest gripes I have with it are the length (I finished it in about 4 hours of gameplay) and the graphics. For this day and age they weren't mind boggling. I saw little improvement over the Deus Ex series, which is a couple of years old now. Even the cut scenes were not done with any great flair. They were full of action and told a decent story, but there really was no wow to it. Unless you're a big fan of the Deus Ex series, I would wait for this one to hit the bargain bin.
NCAA Basketball during the month of March is magic. The championship, played last night, was no classic but was entertaining. Although the Illini went to sleep at the end of the first half, they came back and made it an entertaining game and preventing me from making an early night of it. No quit, and though they don't get to claim the title of "National Champions" they are nonetheless, Champions. A lesser team would have given up. Make no mistake, UNC was superior Monday night. A streak of hot shooting and some better defense got Illinois back in the game after trailing by double digits. With the Fighting Illini, they live by the sword (the three point shot) and they die by the sword. When there only quality big man got into foul trouble, there was little else for them to do. UNC, did what they had to do to win. Execution down in the last two minutes was a key factor in coming out on the winning end. UNC did, Illinois did not. Another great tournament over. I'm thanking my lucky stars that I decided to stay out of the pool this year. I had Syracuse and Oklahoma State in the final. Both were gone early.
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