Sim City Demo

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MW3 Demo - After an embarrassing "Please Reconnect the Controller" message, we were shown a glimpse of the campaign. The demo shows our protagonist on a secret mission taking place under water.  After the player plants explosives on an enemy submarine, the sub resurfaces and you and your squadmates are able to enter and clear it of all combatants.  It was certainly nothing we've never seen before. The demo even featured the standard "breech the door and clear the room" scenario that we've seen past CoD titles. We're then placed on a speedboat as multiple explosions take place, and the demo ends as we race onto an aircraft that takes the player to safety. As the player is flown away, you can see the backdrop of a city under siege. Tomb Raider Demo - We all had high expectations after that gorgeous cinematic trailer that was recently released, and the demo shown today did not disappoint. It showed Lara as she tries to make her way out of a dark and damp cave. The familiar puzzle gameplay that has been present throughout the series will clearly return for the new installment. As the cave begins to collapse, the player is forced to make a run for it and Lara soon finds herself next to the plane and ship wreckage featured in the cinematic. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier - Kinect Support Confirmed - From what we saw of the demonstration, players will be able to choose weapons and and fire them with a Kinect monitor. As the "demoer" displayed, players will open and close their palms to control the rate of fire. It was also announced that all future Tom Clancy titles will have Kinect support. New Xbox Experience/Dashboard - Microsoft clearly does not like controllers anymore. The Xbox dashboard is set to respond to voice commands to get to the different music, video, and games hubs. It was also announced that Youtube, Live television, and Bing will be coming to Xbox Live. Bing will allow you to voice search for games and movies of the same series so it will be easier for users to find titles similar to their preferences. franchise is coming to Kinect. The demo started by contolling a horse-drawn carriage, which quickly led into some good looking gameplay. Players will have the ability to cast spells toward enemies using hand gesture combinations and from the look of the demo, a variety of smooth hand motions will be included. This was one of the more seamless-looking Kinect titles that was showcased.

Old Game Tuesday – SimCity 2000 | Honk if you love justice!

Man, how many hours did I spend on SimCity 2000?  More than my parents would probably like to hear about, that’s for sure. ;)  I enjoyed the original SimCity quite a bit, but was only dimly aware of other Sim games (I did rent SimEarth on SNES once, that was fun), but as woon as I saw SimCity 2000 (SC2k) in stores I HAD to have it.

Do I really have to tell you what SC2k is all about?  It’s a city building game.  It’s as simple and as complex as that, and SC2k really did have some complexity.  You could zone individual blocks now, instead of 9 at a time, you had more power plants, more infrastructure (schools, hospitals, police, fire), more detailed tax structure, dense or light zoning (if you want to keep nasty heavy industry out of your city center, for instance), highways, subways, and more even beyond that.  If you like, you can even modify the land directly as you can change elevation, add rivers and lakes, and plant trees.  I’m not the only one that created long ridges covered with waterfalls so I could make use of hydro power and wind power.  Your cities require planning – more than once when I was younger I would start a city, and just when I got it moving I ran into traffic problems.  So how do you fix it?  Do you bulldoze a few buildings for bus stations?  Might not be enough.  You can use a one tile space to put in a subway station, but the train tunnels are expensive.  You can build highways, but that takes up a lot of room.  That’s just one example of the balancing act of building a working city.

One strange thing that happened to me with these kinds of games when I was younger – my first city was ALWAYS my best.  I don’t know if maybe due to the learning curve, my first was built slower/more carefully or what, but future cities always seemed to fail.  Doesn’t seem to happen to me now, though.  I seemed to start out better when I wasn’t all worried about leaving space for mass transit, and planning for water power and all that.

SimCity 2000 remains an all-time favorite for me, and I come back to it again and again despite all the newer versions and competing games.

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