The Hades Times: FPS

A few weeks ago I was talking about how, courtesy of Ken Levine, I had a list of the ambient music that you come across while playing BioShock. Now that I have found the list again in my office move, I can finally share it:

Title	Artist
20th Century Blues	Noel Coward
Academy Award	Stanley Black
Avalon	Django Reinhardt
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (means you’re grand)	The Andrews Sisters
Best Things in Life Are Free	The Inkspots
Brother Can You spare a Dime	Bing Crosby
Danny Boy	Mario Lanza
God Bless the Child	Billie Holiday
How Much is that Doggie	Pattie Page
If I didn't care	The Ink Spots
It Had to Be You	Django Reinhardt
It's Bad For Me	Rosemary Clooney
Jitterbug Waltz	Django Reinhardt
Just One Of Those Things	Lee Morgan
Just Walkin' in the Rain	Johnny Ray
La Mer (Beyond the Sea )	Bobby Darin
La Mer (Beyond the Sea)	Django Reinhardt
Let's Fly Away	Lee Wiley
Liza	Django Reinhardt
Night and Day	Billie Holiday
Papa Loves Mambo	Perry Como
Please Be Kind	Django Reinhardt
The Party's Over Now	Noel Coward
The Waltz of the Flowers	Pytor Llyich Tchaikovsky
This Is A Changing World	Noel Coward
Wild Ride	Faux Frenchmen
World Weary	Noel Coward
Wrap your troubles in dreams	Bing Crosby
You're Getting To Be A Habit	Harry Edison Bing Crosby
You're the Top	Cole Porter

BTW: I highly recommend the Django Reinhardt tunes.

Anyone want to find these on Amazon and send me the above list with links?

Posted: Oct 11 2007, 11:34 AM by Major Nelson"

Thanks Major!

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Free Radical Announces Timesplitters 4, But for what?

Head over to the site and see the Halo 3 parody trailer teaser for the new game. I would just love to know what console this is for. PS3? Wii? No one knows!

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Jericho demo now on XBLM: It's all most perfect...

Clive Barker's Jericho is a great demo. The game allows you to switch from one character to the other each with special abilities, powers, and weapons. Each character plays a little different and all three are satisfying.
I had one and only one problem with the demo. About 2/3 of the way through the demo you get into a situation where you have to do this context sensitive gameplay where you have to press a series of buttons in a certain order. This type of thing has been SO OVERDONE in just about EVERY TITLE that has come out in the past two years. I don't EVER want to see it again. It's annoying and very unsatisfying. Other than that, the demo is awesome and I can't wait to play the full game. One more small note, the demo is too short....

Friday, September 21, 2007

The End Drawth Nih: COD4 Beta Ends 9/30

"Call of Duty 4 Beta Ends Sept. 30
Level cap to be raised two days before it closes.
By Kris Pigna, 09/21/2007
If you were one of the lucky few to get into the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare multiplayer beta, you know by now it's on track to be one of the best Xbox Live experiences yet. But that sweet, succulent taste of tactical military action will soon be coming to an end -- on the blog of Infinity Ward Community Relations Manager Robert Bowling (aka fourzerotwo), he announced the beta will close on September 30.
It's not all bad news, though, as Bowling also announced the level cap (currently at 16) will be raised to 25 on September 28. That only leaves two days to reach it, but at least it'll unlock all the weapons, perks and challenges available in the beta, including the G3 assault rifle and Dragunov sniper rifle.
Bowling also addressed some of the tweaks they've made to the final game thanks to the beta, including adding a sensitivity slider, cracking down on map exploits, and improving matchmaking optimization to reduce lag (which he says will also help with some of the questionable hit-detection players have complained about). As for how close the game is to being finished, Bowling hints, "Are We Gold Yet? I'll leave the final official word to any press releases Activision would like to send out, but let's just say, I've received a few congratulatory emails from both Sony of America for PS3 and Microsoft certification for the Xbox 360."
Now, if you're not one of the lucky few to get in the beta, be sure to watch our recent impressions to see what you've been missing. Then be content in knowing you can't fully appreciate how hard the month-long wait until Call of Duty 4's release on November 5th will be. At least there's some sort of Halo 3 something or other to tide us all over, right?"1UP...

Since Halo 3 comes out on September 25th and according to numbers over 1 million people have pre-ordered the game; it stands to reason that this won't be too bad. But two days to go up 5 levels; obviously a focus on the BIG FANS is in full effect.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Medal of Honor Airborne: Don't drop this behind my enemy lines!

Playing Medal of Honor Airborne from EA is like trying to play an original XBOX game with a faulty controller. The game has so many instances where the player feels as if something on their end just doesn't work.
The game is the typical WW2 shooter but some of the problems in the game are anything but typical. First off, why don't enemies die after you shoot them once? The game is supposed to be so realistic yet when some Italian nut case is running at you full speed and you fill them full of machine gun rounds they keep coming. The accuracy of all of the rifles except for the Springfield sniper rifle practically makes them unusable. Why did they include such poor weapons in the game? It may be realistic but it surely isn't fun.
There many instances in the game where enemies get stuck in walls and against things looking like some original XBOX budget title. Your allies in the game are like cows. They wonder all over the map; walking into gunfire, trying to bludgeon enemies head on who are holding machine guns. Never have the words canon fodder been so aptly assigned to units.
The actual parachuting in the game is such a small insignificant part of the game; it could have been called Medal of Honor #4 and no one would have been the wiser. You must parachute into the green smoke marked areas or enemies will kill you. That's pretty much it. So much for an open battlefield.
Why EA chose to have SO MANY units on screen at once when most are just canon fodder anyway are beyond me. There are hero units who seem to have a head on their shoulders and they need to be flanked to be killed. One more thing about the enemy units; the super melee attack with the rifle is definitely the worst thing I've EVER seen in a video game. Not only is it unrealistic, the attack is just frustrating to the player; especially when even after unloading a whole machine gun clip into an enemy they can still hit you once or twice.
On a minor note, the fact that there is no blood in this game makes things more comical than dramatic. When you shoot some guy with the shotgun and he flies back five feet and then bounces off the wall like a cartoon character makes you laugh. They might as well have made the enemies aliens for the amount of realism this game conveys.
I have to admit I only played about 2/3 of the way through the game because I just couldn't deal with the frustration anymore. Between the stupid allies and the inaccuracy of the weapons; I just gave up after being killed in a hale of gun fire. For the number of allies you have and their intelligence, they really could have lessened the number of enemy units in some of the areas. The developers seem more interested in punishing the player every chance they get, rather than rewarding the player for being the only effective unit on screen.
So pretty pinup girls no withstanding Medal of Honor Airborne is little more than a rental title and the fact that it follows a genre that is so packed full of games. Airborne makes no case for it's existence. 5/10 go play Call of Duty 2.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

XBOX 360 Achievements has COD4 Achievements!

Over at XBOX360Achievements.org they have the achievement list for Call of Duty 4. Click over there on the link and take a look.