Gaming Slowdown
With work starting to pick up, school looming in the near future, and a bunch of other things that keep me busy, I haven’t really found a lot of time to do any serious gaming as of late. I’ve played some Umbrella Chronicles which my brother bought and I’ve also played a bit of Tomb Raider: Underworld which another brother got for his birthday.
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles is quite a fun game. I’ve never been a huge fan of on-a-rail shooters but with the Wiimote it really adds to the experience. Blasting away zombies and destorying random stuff in the stages as you go along is entertaining and playing co-op with a friend really adds to the experience.
Tomb Raider: Underworld on the other hand didn’t impress me in the least. Now, I will admit that it may be better on a superior system (we have the PS2 version), but that still doesn’t change the core gameplay. In some of the tighter places in the intro stage I found myself fighting the camera and the controls. People complain about the old games having clunky controls, but I swear I could do better with those than I was doing here. Things improved in the open, but then when I got underwater on the next stage things got awkward again.
Aside from my own experience, I’ve also watched my brothers play and heard what they thought about the game. The enemies in the game are extremely few, and even then they present no challenge whatsoever so it’s like they’re there for no reason at all other than to create a fascade that you’re in danger.
The game heavily focuses on the puzzle aspect, but even with that both of my brothers who have now beaten the game said that even Legend was better with that. Legend also had been a short game, but they said that this was even shorter than that! In fact they said that Legend was 20x better. With the little bit that I played and with what they’ve said, it’s no surprise to me why the series is getting yet another reboot already. Who knows, maybe we’ll finally get some Tomb Rraider games that can compare to what they once were.
