Digging and playing

Apart from digging, digging, digging my almost weed free garden, I have actually been gaming:

Shame on me, it’s been Mirror’s Edge via Boot Camp. Beautifully sparse environments, clean cityscapes, somewhat spoiled by a lackluster story that fizzles out to nufink. It’s rather short too, but still a refreshing change from the ordinary run and gun malarkey. One of the focuses of the game is to evade and escape enemies, but that makes a challenge of jump kicking them in the sugar lumps, snatching their weapons and proceeding to shoot up call centre coloured environments.

Gooball by Ambrosia, the now bloody hard Super Monkey Ball (but better) inspired roller. When Gooball went Universal Binary they updated the physics engine. It’s now bloody difficult. More often that not, off you go, spinning, wobbling into oblivion. The game says, in a suitably patronising tone, fallout. Arr! Demo here.

I’m still playing and working on Prince of Persia. I like it, but in the same way you’d watch and enjoy a Friends episode and feel guilty afterwards. The story is unfolding in a suitably predictable fashion, but as I said – Ross and Rachel!

It’s quite an odd title. One of the most beautiful I’ve seen; ridiculous airborne contraptions, vast, abandoned cities, dark and wonderfully realised enemies. But the gameplay is quite often mere button mashing. It’s still very entertaining, but perhaps not skilful or even challenging.

What are you guys playing?