Cheap Games
Long time readers, those that followed me here from my last blog (all two of them), know I am not much of a video gamer, but I do play from time to time. I bought a game cube about a year ago.
Two weeks ago I picked up some really cheap games for it. Namely, Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers, Zelda - Windwaker and Medal of Honor Pacific Rising. Played some Zelda lsat week and it was ok. Tonite I popped in LOTR. I played for about 40 minutes (that is about my attention span for games). It was fun. I believe it was what the magazines call a Hack and Slash. But it was kind of cool. One of the things I liked about the movies were the epic battles.
This game starts out in the epic battle at Mordor. You kind of get your feet under you here. I was mashing buttons like no man before. The story goes along and you find youself as Aragorn at Weathertop trying to protect Frodo. It took me a couple lives to realize what I was supposed to do, but then it got quite fun. You have a torch and it goes out from time to time, so you have to keepo relighting it and sticking it to the ring wraiths. Pretty fun.
Then you can switch chars and march off over the mountains. That is where it got kind of hard. I played as Legolas (my favorite character from the movies). I got my ass handed to me by archers though after a while.
I hope to play again some day as I had a lot of fun.