Last night we had another work party. What these gatherings usually involve is food (happened to be wings this time round) and gaming.
With our department being down to my boss (full time programmer), myself and one other co-op, we get to do some semi-interesting things.
For example, after delicious jello, we came back to the office & began to play VCR Clue. Most of you are thinking “WTF is VCR Clue?!” Well, I’ll tell you; it’s the game of clue played with a VCR.
I’m willing to bet most of you have never heard of this (as had I), so I’ll help date it; its so old that they not only released it on VHS, but they also released it on BETA tape as well.
Having never played Clue, this game was surprisingly fun, even though we have rips of the video from youTube, so it was more like “USB Flash Drive in an Xbox 360 Clue.”
Also last night, I showed my coworkers the trailer for the next Oscar-Winning-Video-Game-If-It-Was-A-Movie, “Left 4 Dead.” I mentioned it in a comment on one of Granites’ recent posts, but no one seems to pay attention to me. Go watch the blood trailer!
After wards, we played (one of us, not me) the demo. It was beyond incredible! The graphics are a little glitchy (hopefully just the demo), but the action, suspense, & overall game play are just mind boggling good.
Granted, it won’t match Portal for its sheer god-like abilities, but it’s an extremely well done multiplayer experience. Meant to be a 4 player co-op, you can expand it to be a 4v4 (the opposing team playing the infected) game, with its dynamic AI filling in the gaps.
All of that said, Valve has set the bar ludicrously high with Half-Life 2, and appears to have surpassed itself once again.
note: I can’t see a zombie movie being Oscar worthy. So maybe the game isn’t as good as HL2.
4 comments:
Dude, everyone in the RCG has been anticipating Left 4 Dead for ages now.
When you mentionned it, I think many people had already pre-purchased it...while people like me were wishing they had systems that could run it.
I left a comment about it, but no one seemed to say a thing about it. Either way, its awesome (come on x-mas present)
Also, re: zombie movies...
I think the reason a zombie movie couldn't be Oscar worthy is because of how they make them. They are typically meant as horror movies. Effects driven films.
I'd like to see a dystopian future movie that involves zombies (or some variant of zombies) that actually has a worthwhile story.
Or maybe a TV series. I think that'd be cool. Humanities last remnants struggling to survive against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse.
I think I've just pitched the next big show...someone get NBC on the line.
A zombie TV series? Good luck with that one. and NBC, really? why not CTV? make it Canadian!
I Am Legend came pretty close to your dystopian future movie.
Although to be honest, I think Half Life is more like Aliens; head crabs "infecting" people.
BTW, anyone else pick up Half Life 1 last week for under a buck?
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