What are you playing at the moment?

[Haly]

Nethack's brilliant

[Pumpkinstew]

The girlfriend was a bit poorly at the start of the week so I gave her a christmas present early - Trauma Center : Second Opinion.

Had a little go last night and it's oddly compelling although the twee dialogue inbetween operations is a bit annoying. The Wii controls are fun to use though. Especially the first incision with the scalpel.
The only thing missing is the option to get a nurse to mop your brow when things get tense.

[Haly]

My friend who's just started working at my local hospital as a doctor (can't remember the exact term now But whatever it is when they've graduated but they're in their first year as a 'real' doctor!) told me they use Trauma Center on the Wii as an educational tool to improve accuracy etc
Scary, but it seems quite a few studies have shown it works very well

I've been playing Spiderman: Web of Shadows. I turned it on nearly two hours ago intending to have a quick go before playing Fallout 3, and I haven't stopped yet! It's brilliant fun, no idea what the story is and don't care, but for once Spiderman actually feels like Spiderman Really enjoying swinging about.
I'll have a full write up at some point as I'm reviewing it but for now, first impressions are great.

[Mondo]

Originally Posted by Haly

My friend who's just started working at my local hospital as a doctor (can't remember the exact term now But whatever it is when they've graduated but they're in their first year as a 'real' doctor!) told me they use Trauma Center on the Wii as an educational tool to improve accuracy etc
Scary, but it seems quite a few studies have shown it works very well

Intern? Resident?

Though that is an American term.

[Haly]

Originally Posted by Mondo

Intern? Resident?

Though that is an American term.

I know those terms but I hate using Americanisms
But yes, the British equivalent of that

[NokkonWud]

Americanisms rock! I use them all the time .

[Daz]

When you say 'media button', do you mean guide button?

Have you seen the facility to see friends grouped together in a party on the friends channel, and the option to join them. I think that's a really cool thing

[NokkonWud]

Yeah, guide button. Bad habbit, always say media as that's what I pressed to get to the media player.

[Admiral Huddy]

Having given FarCry2 a rest, I decided to play the new Call of Duty release, World at War. I have to say, for the first time, I’ve bought this game on a whim not having read any reviews so have no idea how it’s going to fair up to it’s predecessors.

For the third title running, install problems are letting the platform down which a driver update appeared to fix. You would think this would be checked before the game starts to loads rather than just crashing.

Anyway, the opening scenes, set in Japan, are the typical chaotic madness that we’d expect from the Call of Duty series. However, one thing immediately sprung to mind. It was obvious I’ve been spoilt by the freeform of recent games. I was unable to flanks my enemy as in Brothers in Arms, I was unable to cut across the field like in Far Cry 2. Instead, I’m forced down the linear path of a bygone genre. How very boring by today’s standard.

Having completed the Japanese missions in hard with a few hours, I decided to pick up the next day. To my horror, the game would load, giving me an un described error. Also unlike me, I forgot to check for updates before playing from the offset. A patch fixed the problem but I was unable to play from where I left off. This is all bad stuff for PC gamers really. The ideology of start and play is become a distance relative of that of the console gamer, who enjoy pretty much trouble free gaming.

I’m just trying to shoot the sniper in a Russian mission. Apparently, I just keep wounding him.

[nellystew]

Playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein atm!

I've got a really old PC (FX5700 card in it), so I'm playing thru all the old games.
Prob go for Deus Ex next.