Yesterday my copy of Fahrenheit arrived. Got it as usual from www.play.com a very good site with free delivery. The deal price of just 16 euros forced me to buy it instantly!

At first was astonished! A true interactive movie! quite different from usual adventure games, but still very enjoyable. Instead of wasting time trying to find the correct combination of verb+word (take the red bag, push the door, etc) the only search you have to do is to find the “hot spot”, places in the room/current playing area where you can do actions. Then you simply decide with a press of keyboard or gamepad.

Very interesting innovation, and is even easy to understand for casual players. But later in the game, some action sequences pissed me off (for those who played that game, I’m mainly referring to “The Storm” chapter… really incredible!). I don’t understand the need to put that in an adventure… indeed is based on matching a long sequences of moves (Dragon’s Lair style) and really doesn’t add up much to the game, I wish there was an option to skip it.

That said, is one of the best adventure and in general one of the best games I’ve ever played. Interesting characters like Angelina … ahem, Carla Valenti (they modeled it basing on the actress Jolie, I’m sure!) and Kane, a compelling plot… I really can’t stop playing it !

Yes! there are some games, MMORPG or MMOG, that enslaves you! As I said previously I play often EQ2.

I had been playing the first Everquest for 3-4 years in the past, then I quit because of the job. Now I decided to try EQ2, and everything was going fine until I joined a guild… 🙂

The problem is that those games would require 4-5h every day! raid, groups, etc. You can’t decide for yourself when to play: because there are other real people involved from around the world. Also even if you can solo (adventure in the game alone), most cool places requires a good group to play. And here’s the problem: logging in, waiting for people to ask you to group, getting there (some places requires 10-15min to get there) and waiting for all party members to arrive. The result? often you literally waste 1h even before starting to play!

This can work for boys or for people who got time to waste… but not for me and many other people! This aspect is quite underestimated in MMOG, and I believe is going to cause a decline of this genre over time… a pity because EQ2 has one of the best RPG system I’ve ever seen. They should simply allow people to play offline or with CPU controlled players 🙂

…and so I thought to simulate it with PES5, my favourite soccer game… despite the latest version AI bugs/cheats that were pissing me too much.

I played it at 2 stars levels with Italy team: too easy, could win every match without real effort. Ok then, I’ll give another try at the 3 stars I thought.

The horror! Insane, all CPU player could simply slide into my defenses like if now my defender were complete idiots! haha too fun, at 2 stars the CPU player don’t even spring (they seems mostly to just walk on the field) while on 3 star they run (and that’s ok) and they can score so easily from a second to another. Really, whatever you do, you can’t prevent them from scoring.

How you can prevent someone to score if he can launch an attacker in front of the keeper with ONE PASS from MIDFIELD? 😀 Impossible.

I was playing with a friend who started to laugh when I lost 3-1 vs USA using Brazil (nothing against USA of course, but I think in real soccer they would have hard time to score 3 goals vs Brazil…!!).

So I decided to give up PES5 and started to play this new Phelios game, Kickin Soccer. At least CPU doesn’t cheat so badly!