Out of Pod Experience

Got a chance to go through a couple of the games in the THQ pack over the weekend.

Space Marine has been fairly decent, certainly better than what the trial provided me with. Without a doubt you do need a xbox style controller to play it which I've noticed that more and more pc games appear to be leaning to, a idea that makes me rather sad as I prefer M&K. Sure I can play that way but it would actually end up being rather awkward due to how your guy moves and functions.

And then I tried a little Company of Hero's last night and I never realized that it was a rts instead of a fps. Kind of caught me off guard when it suddenly put me in a overhead view and told me to get 25 troops to the shingles. I've been enjoying a lot of the game play functions of this but there is a lot I need to learn on it (simple things like laying mines).

Metro 2055 has been my favorite so far. It kind of has a fallout sense to it with the huge exception that you are guided by a straight line. The scenery has been great and it has actually made me jump a few times with it creepiness factor. I need to really work on my ability to stealth though, which so far involves killing everything in ones path with the loudest weapon possible. This put me in an unfortunate position because I was on the Russians front lines against the four starred named people and I ended up getting killed. What is unfortunate about it is that the last checkpoint puts me in the same spot where I died and I get hosed almost immediately. If the guys above don't get a lucky shot right off then they generally toss a grenade on down (throwbacks weren't invented yet). If I don't want to get blown up I need to run to the other side of a pillar where a firing squad is. On the off chance that I manage to actually take all that out there is one that kills me as soon as I enter a hallway and I have yet to figure out where he is coming from. Needless to say after about the 30th attempt I logged off for a bit in extreme frustration.