Fink About It

Let’s be honest: Gaming is fun. But gaming in Coop¹ is even more fun. The problem, however, is that there are not too many games out there that’ll actually work in coop against bots. Sometimes it’s because of technical difficulties, sometimes it’s because of design mistakes which can kill the fun. As I have tried a lot of different games with both native and mod-injected coop functionality, here is a list of what did and did not work out for me.

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1. that is multiplayer mode: players vs. AI bots [↩]

In the Wild Wild West there are two things men cannot resist: women and gold. This seems fine as long as they are seperated, but what happens if you throw both of them in the middle of three brothers?

Call of Juarez – Bound in Blood is not about booze, but about the three McCall brothers who get into an 8 hour shootout adventure (story) with roleplay-elements (weapons, inventory) all under the watch of a First-Person-Shooter.

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Don’t say you don’t about Half Life. If you do – shame on you and good that you’re here to learn about it, because this is one of the most important games EVER!

Half Life is a FPS¹ series by Valve² that started out in 1998 where you play as Gordon Freeman, a theoretical physicist, who causes a rift in the space-time continuum, letting aliens enter our world. While you try to survive the alien forces, the government tries to cover up the incident by sending soldiers that kill everyone on their way. On your way out you have to shoot, jump and solve some logic puzzles.

Now what makes this game so special that I fished it out of my walk-in gaming closet? Let me tell you there are several reasons: Read on

1. FPS = First Person Shooter [↩]
2. founded in 1996 and also responsible for the great game Left4Dead [↩]

As you know, I like games. Therefore I inform myself about the latest and upcoming games. Now, where do I do that? For one, I have subscribed to an (offline) game magazine. And for another thing, I watch trailers online at websites like G4TV¹, Gamestar and I used to drop by at Gametrailers.com. What they all have in common, is annoying me with their in-between-video-advertisements.

When you want to watch a video, you watch it and it’s all fine. But as you want to watch a second video on the very same website, you have a 97 per cent chance to encounter an advertisement, before you can watch what you actually wanted to see. And there is no way of skipping the stupid ad!! The frame of the video² penetrates the whole website and overrules all other codes thereon. As a result, the background blacks out, giving you no chance of clicking anything except for the close button on your browser window. Read on

1. which is quite informative although it has a strong focus on console games [↩]
2. mostly done per flash [↩]

A little gamer and a little geeky, that is how Jannica describes herself. But she is even more than that – she’s an artist, she’s a model and she’s interesting. Yes, she’s afraid of mice, but apart from that she’s a very brave person, showing off her latest art, latest thoughts and broadcasting live every Wednesday at 7:30pm (pst). Read on