Anyway, moving on from feeling very old the latest Ghostbusters game that came out last year is actually pretty good when I was expecting it to be pretty awful.

If you want a game that allows you to strap on a proton pack and capture ghosts then this is the game for you, it captures the cheesiness of the films and also the fun of wielding the wavy streams of destruction extremely well.  You even get to use the slime cannons too, covering team mates in green slime is always fun This is a third person shooter that allows you to play a new member of the team alongside all the famous faces of the film, you go through many different locations capturing ghosts while destroying most things in your way.  You also get to use the PKE meter to help find these ghosts, this also allows for many a creepy moment in the game.  The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man also makes his appearance fairly early on and you get to dispatch him, although sadly you never get the chance to drive Ecto-1

The game is paced very well, on the middle setting (Professional) it was a smooth pleasant playthrough, that was until towards the end.  Then it almost seemed like the developers suddenly thought they had made it too easy and made a couple of levels a royal pain in the arse (cue much swearing, much to the girlfriends amusement). This wouldn’t of been so bad if the the game didn’t have to reload the entire level again.. I can only imagine that’s what its doing as the loading times are a bit long.. I used to love that Ghostbusters theme lol

There are plenty of nods to the films in this game (achievements named after sayings from the film, the Vigo picture in the HQ that has various sayings etc..) so any fan of the series will love the game, even if you don’t you will still find it a capable shooter… well maybe not but who doesn’t like Ghostbusters?!

Good fun, glad I only rented it though

Global Agenda Patch 1.1 introduces several commonly requested new features, including a friends list, two new Conquest Zones, the ability to repair upgrades, additional player choice when queueing, and more. The patch also fixes a variety of bugs and annoyances. A larger Patch 1.2 is being worked on for later release that will introduce significant additional content to the game.

The first major patch since release for Global Agenda hits today, the server will be down between 1600-2000 GMT to be patched. There are a few nice things in this release, a friends list, ability to repair upgrades and the choice in queues will be nice as it was in the alpha/beta.

Will it be enough to keep people interested until the next one that will be adding more content? Who knows, but for me I am happy enough for now as I find it more fun to play than Team Fortress 2 now as that has just got silly now and lost some of its charm.

Full patch notes can be found here…

On a side note, I really need to sort out my PC so I can run this game properly

The demo I played the week before gave a good taste of the game but the full game certainly delivers a fun experience.  Yes it’s pretty much the same as Mario Kart but that’s no bad thing.  Weapons are similar, and each character has a special power up that they get when things are going badly… I love Aiai’s monkey ball All-Star move

Its nice to have a HD kart game finally, the team on this have done a great job at capturing what Mario Kart did well and I am kind of surprised that it is getting some iffy reviews.

The kids love it too!

This week has had the following…

A well run team of Medic and an Assault (hi CrazyHippo) happily taking on a whole enemy team and winning, alot. These games of stompage also revealed my Medic is able to absorb an insane amount of damage! Me also finding out that Robotics are a fun class to play when played right.

Getting all my gear in order and loaded into my carrier in Eve Online so I can finally jump over to where my new corp is so I can get involved once again in playing Eve properly.

Realising that Uncharted 2 is one of the best made games I have played so far, I am looking forward to completing this!

Realising that playing a video game character in Ghostbusters the game might not be as fun as being a real Ghostbuster, but its close enough for now!

Hopefully this weekend I can pick up a copy of Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing and enjoy some good old fashioned kart racing on the 360 with the kids, watching them fight over being Sonic should be fun…

It is going to be hard to tear myself away from playing Uncharted 2 as that game is truly amazing, but hopefully I can blast through Ghostbusters pretty quickly.

On top of both of these I still need to get myself organised in Eve by getting all my gear into my carrier and jumping it over to where the actual corp is so I can get playing properly again. I also want to play some more Global Agenda as my medic is now very close to hitting level 30 and I want to get my recon up as well.

4-5 months ago I was moaning that I had nothing to play… just goes to show that gamers are never happy unless they are moaning about something

After I was disappointed by Halo 3: ODST I was hoping that Halo Reach might at least point the series back in the right direction and after watching the following video I am convinced it is.  Spartans are back and the graphics look like they have got a nice update.

Its nice to be able to get excited over a Halo game once again.

Not really, its a great conversion from the PC and the touch controls work great.  So it is still a great game that I can now play on the move.  However a couple of things were a let down for this release, a couple of the modes are missing (Survival, Puzzle, Zen Garden and Mini-Game modes) and the frame rate suffers a little when the screen gets busy.

Hopefully PopCap will release a few updates to fix these issues though, and at £1.79 I can hardly complain too much.  Bit of a shame that the iPhone release didn’t get any platform exclusive features, but fingers crossed there is more to come!

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The odd game comes along though that shows that the consoles can pull it off, rarely but when they do it makes for a great game.  The Halo series was the first for me, Bungie had all the elements in place for a great series but sadly it does seem to have lost its way as my Halo ODST musings showed.

I haven’t had my PS3 long so I am slowly working through the few exclusive games I have missed over the years, Killzone 2 has been the current game and it took me by surprise.

After the usual learning curve with getting used to the pad controls I got down to the matter of killing the Helghast. The first thing that struck me in Killzone 2 was how good the game looked, at last I have found a PS3 game that actually shows what the console can achieve. This game is stunning in places, the only problem is the action rarely lets up for you to admire it!  I am not sure it quite tops Gears of War 2’s graphics for me but it is very close.  This game is all about the action though, its pretty non stop which is good as it keeps things flowing and is mixed up with the odd vehicle or turret section to slow it down a little.

There is nothing ground breaking about Killzone 2, it just has a lot of polish and does what a FPS should do, and does it very well. This is a game that also frustrated, the 1 on 1 fight with the flying HK like thing on the roof top was a nightmare for me! The last level of the game is also very well done with a long intense series of fights leading to a bit of an annoying boss in the form of Radec who can cloak and re-appear where he likes.  Radec was a pain in the arse until I grabbed a flame thrower and set him on fire so I could always see where he was

Couple of things that let the game down though, loading times are really long and sometimes the game just freezes where its loading the next part of the level (I thought it had hung my PS3 the first time it did this). It is also too short, I think my play through said just under 6 hours which is pretty short considering the end shows what’s going to happen next… I wanted to carry on the fight right then!  Small complaints though for a very well made game.

Next game on the list is Uncharted 2, looking forward to playing this.

Firestorm had two proper (right amount of the correct classes etc..) Strikeforces up and running for attacking and defending hexes so I joined the 3rd team that was building up.  This team was tasked with trying to drag forces away from where the other two were attacking and trying to keep nearby agencies distracted so they didn’t attack our hexes while our teams were away.

Our team was comprised of whoever was available so we didn’t really expect to be able to fight any organised groups very well, or at least this is what I was told. I figured it can’t matter that much surely as long as you have the right amount of people?!  I was very wrong.  Conquest isn’t like just joining a pick up group in the normal PvP matches, these are all well organised teams who have their whole team specced to win. My first attack on a hex showed me just how true this is, we didn’t even get close to taking the first point

A couple more attacks went a bit better, we got to the 3rd point a couple of times in a few of them.  One match even had no one defending so we actually won one   Trying to keep people alive during these hex raids is hard work, and you really feel like you are letting the team down when people die (even if there was nothing you can do) but as you can see I can put out a nice amount of healing so I am happy.

The map came to a close and I could see more clearly what we had lost with all the attacks that hit us, the map looked like this..

Only Alliance hexes..

All in all, it was a good night and a good experience in what Conquest mode has to offer.  Looking forward to seeing the more full scale battles with people bringing proper equipment (tanks etc..) to the field. Echelon looks to be a very busy map so keeping hexes is going to be a challenge. Bring it on

ThreatN and Firestorm alliance however were busy it seems on the Echelon map and ended up taking a fair few hexes, at close of map play the alliance holds 20 hexes. This is how the map looked.

With just alliance hexes showing…

Not a bad nights work, hopefully I can actually find some time soon to join in some AvA!