It's been a good while since a good game I've been following has come out. I say a "good game" because, let's face it, Ten Hammers didn't quite live up to what I hoped it might become. The last really good game release I can remember was Battlefield 2, and that was nearly a year ago.
I've been playing Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory on and off for the last week, and though I like the stealth-action genre, Splinter Cell is better suited to be a stealth-only game. The action elements of the game are so inconsistent and unfriendly that every mission is an effort to go entirely undetected. I guess it's supposed to be a little like that, but when you've got high-tech guns at your disposal, you'd otherwise never imagine hating the opportunity to use them.
But enough about that. I don't mean to turn my blog section into another review section. Where would be the sense in that?
Having missed my most recent opportunity to go to a LAN party, there ought to be another coming up soon. I don't know what games I missed at the last party, but since the onset of E3, my appetite for new and better games has grown steadily. Numerous games that were supposed to have come out already have been delayed to later this year. Namely, I was looking forward to Company of Heroes and Faces of War.
In case anybody actually reads this, and in the off chance that somebody from the Sacramento area reads this, my usual LAN group should be getting together sometime in July, but the date hasn't firmed up yet. Get more information here.