Blalab – Game & Movie Reviews

Catch22: Last week I got bored and decided to go see if there had been any more recent games bumped to freeware by their makers. While perusing the lists of flop, bug ridden or poorly timed release titles of yesteryear I bumped into this gem. Now Full Spectrum Warrior was a title I had heard about but it had been hidden in the combat-sim saturated market at the time so I didn’t really give it a shot. It’s been released as an ad supported game and at a paltry 1.6 gig download I thought why not. I mean, i do like free.

After doing some reading while the install was chugging away I discovered that Full Spectrum Warrior was originally developed for the US Army as a training tool. Its purpose was to prepare soldiers and potential recruits (that’s you btw) for different types of combat operations. The game was later criticized for being unrealistic and not useful its intended purpose. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: unranked

Decibelle: I love this game, but it shouldn’t be played on a school night.  It is far too easy for would-be micro-managers to become so absorbed that sleep, food, and human contact are indefinitely suspended.

What sets this game apart from others is that it maintains a cute façade while cramming in a host of variables to be poked, prodded, and tweaked in the quest for a optimum hospital performance. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 51%

Catch22: I have to admit, this is one of the strangest games i’ve encountered so far on the PS3. It’s barely a game. Most games have some sort of basic effort & reward system in place. This game seems to lack any sort of real goal and does little to reward player participation. The only thing that kept me playing was the hope that something might actually happen… which it doesn’t. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 89%

Felix: I have a LOT of games in my to-be-played stack. Some, years old. And these aren’t the shitty ones that have been left by the wayside, either. Quality games like Valkyria Chronicles, Shadow of the Colossus, Okami, that are just waiting for a bit of a time to be allocated to them so they can be finished, and adored even more.

I found a bit of spare time this afternoon, after work. What did I do with it? I played LittleBigPlanet. A game which, at the time of writing, is about 6 months old. I picked it up at launch, and played it then. I finished the main story levels months ago, but continued playing to collect the items I’d missed. And half a year later, by which time most other games would be collecting dust, LBP is still releasing patches, downloadable content, and filling up slots in my gaming schedule. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 97%

Catch22: The average subscription MMO can get to be a bit expensive these days. I mean you have to consider the costs of the boxed game itself, the expansions as well as all the inevitable small things like character transfers and name changes. Also you’ve already forked out the cash for a decent PC to run it all on and the monthly net costs are all part if whats needed to play.

Now if you’re like me you would have been a little MMO-curious occasionally and trialed some other games on the market just on the off-chance you could save some cash for other things.. like food. A ten day trial here – a referred friend there. Perhaps even a short fling with one of the cheaper, nastier free-to-play MMO’s in the shady corners of the net. You know they aren’t a good idea, your friends have all warned you about them… full of advertisements, spy-ware, gold farmers and god knows what else. But you take the chance regardless and find yourself walking away from the experience with the computer equivalent of crabs and a good deal of guilt. Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 68%

I’d like to start out by saying I’m a big fan of the Fallout series. If you haven’t played them do yourself a favor and put them on your list of “Things To Do When I’m Not Reading Blalab”.

Just to fill you in, Fallout is set in an alternate history where humanity is plagued by war. A select few enter large fallout shelters just before a nuclear holocaust and are locked away in until it is safe to return to their battered world. These vault dwellers emerge 25 years later to find that others had survived in the radioactive wastelands. These survivors include mutants, gangs of scavengers, misguided robots and armor-wearing vigilantes. Hilarity ensues… Read the rest of this entry »

Popularity: 100%