Geometry Wars - The Making Of

There are thousands of gaming podcasts around the net but, to be honest, most are dull as dishwater. There are a few exceptions, notably Ben Croshaw’s Zero Punctuation over at Escapist Magazine. I did just find this gem blogged about on Destructoid, however.

It’s a great parody featuring Bizzare Creations’ Geometry Wars, or rather the making of it.

I popped over to the LoadingReadyRun homepage and found another good video, this time featuring Wii games that never made it. The last couple are particuarly funny, stick with it! This video is probably not for the easily offended; you have been warned.

Yahtzee, the fastest speaking presenter since that rather bizarre French bloke on Rapido, has posted his review of Solid Snake’s latest adventures in Metal Gear Solid 4. I’d love to give my take on the game but I have a pathological hatred of games with lengthy cut scenes and piecemeal gameplay. Actually I wouldn’t know about the gameplay because I’d rather stick my head in an overused tube station toilet than sit through 20 minutes of cut scenes before I get to do anything.

It’s fair to say that I’m probably not best placed to judge this game but it seems to keep one of the Tuna team busy and if he thought the game sucked then he’d say so. Several times. He hasn’t (yet), so it must be pretty damn good.

More seriously, narrative within games is a huge talking point these days and is something I will no doubt discuss in a future post. MGS obviously does something right in this regard, despite Yahtzee’s reservations.