Saturday, February 05, 2005
Back from retirement, prompted by two incredible things:
Extreme Hunting
It's like a highly intense, bloody, immoral version of Virtua Cop. You load up a weapon in the hunting lodge, then head out into the wilderness to different "stands", where you pick off innocent mammals.
There's a choice of weapons: rifle, shotgun, bow; and these are augmented as you get "power-ups" with a slingshot, power-rifle, and other various tools of mayhem. Obviously the user interface is a crappy pump action shotgun, but this takes nothing away from the thrill of downing a black bear at 200 yards with a longbow.
The animal choice determines the game play: Elk, Moose, Grizzly, Deer, Black Bear. There's a moratorium on killing bear cubs and female deer, which gets challenging as your critical senses get overwhelmeed by bloodlust. Plus you have extremely limited ammo, forcing you to go for headshots and direct hits on the heart.
I recommend you petition your local pub to order one of these from Sammy Games today.
The Framley Examiner
Suggested by the mysterious "mk", The Framley Examiner, purports to be a local paper, of distinctly local concerns. A particular delight are the Classifieds:
Extreme Hunting
It's like a highly intense, bloody, immoral version of Virtua Cop. You load up a weapon in the hunting lodge, then head out into the wilderness to different "stands", where you pick off innocent mammals.
There's a choice of weapons: rifle, shotgun, bow; and these are augmented as you get "power-ups" with a slingshot, power-rifle, and other various tools of mayhem. Obviously the user interface is a crappy pump action shotgun, but this takes nothing away from the thrill of downing a black bear at 200 yards with a longbow.
The animal choice determines the game play: Elk, Moose, Grizzly, Deer, Black Bear. There's a moratorium on killing bear cubs and female deer, which gets challenging as your critical senses get overwhelmeed by bloodlust. Plus you have extremely limited ammo, forcing you to go for headshots and direct hits on the heart.
I recommend you petition your local pub to order one of these from Sammy Games today.
The Framley Examiner
Suggested by the mysterious "mk", The Framley Examiner, purports to be a local paper, of distinctly local concerns. A particular delight are the Classifieds:
TERRIFYINGLY SOFT MATTRESS £110. Must sell soon. Mattress is too soft. Much too soft. Also hard pillows. Call 01999 920 132 any time of day or night.Hours and hours of provincial pleasure.
BBC MODEL "B" MICRO with two games: 'Text Tennis' and 'BBC Windowbox', and FORTRAN light-operated tortoise. £800ono. Box FE8390
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