First of all, I've managed to get my hands on the old Sega Genesis game "Tyrants" and learned how to play that. It's an acceptable game, but not really in-depth or all that fun. Honestly it seems pretty repetitive... good for a long road-trip though. If you don't know what it is (highly likely), it's a strategy game where you try to advance through the ages as you conquer territory and defeat your rivals. Oh, and the voice acting for it is terrible!
The only other console game I've devoted any attention to is Super Smash Bros. Melee. Whenever I can convince someone to play, I enjoy duking it out as Ness, Samus or Pikachu. I've taken to playing a couple new characters in order to entice the competition to play a little more often against me. If i only play as Ness, the game tends to get old a little quickly for everyone else...
On the computer side of gaming, just tonight I managed to get all gold medals in air training for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. What does that mean? Well, I can fly the Hunter... basically a copy of an Apache attack helicopter. Lots of fun flying that baby downtown, and well worth the effort to get it too.
I've also been playing SimCity 4: Rush Hour, and have a regional population of 2.5 million for the one I've been working on on my laptop. My other mega-region for the desktop is approaching 3 million people, and I've barely scratched the surface of the amount of usable land I have to build on. I'm expecting it to hold at least 100 million people when I'm finally done. I also noticed that it takes me about one to two hours to build a city with a population of 200,000 people. That's plenty of replayability there; not bad for a game that only cost $60 total with the expansion pack. If only there were more... instead of The Sims 2 expansion packs.
Last, but not least, in the real-time strategy front; I've been playing Act of War: Direct Action and of course Command & Conquer: Generals Zero Hour. I still have a difficult time in Act of War occasionally, but I've got Zero Hour down to a science. My preferred generals are the Tank General (even with the game's lame pathfinding AI) and the Superweapon General (no need for pathfinding AI). Nothing more satisfying than sending hordes of tanks against your opponents, or launching dozens of nuclear weapons and firing particle cannons to obliterate their base. Fun. :-)
So those are the games that have been keeping me busy.
This Christmas I'm looking forward to getting some new ones. Who knows what that holds in store for me...
