A Week Without WoW, I'm Hungry for Singleplayers!

After watching this clip & still failing terribly, I decided to just to restart the game on a lower difficulty, something I didn't regret at all.

Playing through the whole CoD4SP again was the best gaming experience I've had in years. Sure you won't be able to jerk off over your 2900 rated cleave team or pretend to be afk & watch everybody inspect you in Ironforge. Let me tell you, that nothing I've done in WoW can even come close to the fun I've had playing through the whole SP. The sniper-camouflage mission was so intense & so nice, it's something I'll remember for a very long time for sure.

The only disappointment would be that I completed the whole thing in less than 5 hours, so it only kept me busy for one evening.





The next day I had to go to the store to get my dad a present for his birthday. While I'm browsing through the shelves stuffed with CDs & picking out a Led Zeppelin album for him, I can't help but to throw a short glance towards the gaming part of the store.

Between World of Warcraft, World of Warcraft Battle Chest, World of Warcraft Game-cards & World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King boxes, I managed to discover that there still exist a few other games. I was checking all games & thinking to myself: Far Cry 2 (first one was yawn, cba with this), Spore (do I really want to play this crap?) & then I notice F.E.A.R. 2. Now I havn't read any gaming-magazines lately, so I was quite unbiased when picking this game.
I played the first F.E.A.R. a while ago & enjoyed it alot. So I thought, to hell with it & since the game would only cost me 25, I just bought it.

I come home, pop in the discs, endure the 12gig installer and hope to load up the game to rip it up. Yet, apparantly Monolith decided to work with Steam & wanted me to endure 8 hours of patching before I could even think of loading the game. I couldn't be arsed with this logically, downloaded a crack & got the game running in about 15mins.

I instantly fell in love with the game from the moment I started the first mission. It had gotten already quite late by now & thus my room was fully dark when I started playing. The game still managed to creep me out as much as the first.

My love diminished a bit after a few hours of playing though. Despite the awesome gfx (atleast in my opinion, apparantly these gfx aren't even close to what others can offer nowadays?) & the same creepy gameplay, scared when opening every door and lurking around every corner, the game didn't feel the same way as the first did.
There wasn't anything new & it just felt like a slightly altered version of the first game. On top of that, the creepy gameplay wasn't all that creepy anymore after a bit. Since those moments that made you **** bricks in F.E.A.R. 1 were simply gone in this sequel. I'll never forgot the level in the facility in first game, where you had to slide down a ladder & Alma would just pop up right in front of your face the second you came off the ladder and turned around. Yet nothing like this was to be found in F.E.A.R. 2, not even the most obvious ones like "hey lets open this toilet door with blood smeared all over it & hope nothing happens. *nothing* ".

Anyhow, I really enjoyed the singleplayer nevertheless. I have no interest in playing the multiplayer since they removed bullettime from it for some reason, which was basicly the only thing that made the F.E.A.R. 1 multiplayer worth playing. So I'm back to scoring levels in CoD4 for now! While doing so, I actually thought of writing this blog & including something nice for future blogs.


I'd like to ask the community who reads this blog, to post a comment with a recent game that you've played and enjoyed alot. I'll buy & play the game(s) that I like and do a full review on them.

You might notice that I mainly love to play FPS games. I've always mainly played FPS, WoW (& Runescape) was the only exception to this. I tend to dislike RTS alot & really looking for mainly games with awesome singleplayer campaigns to buy here. I'm sure alot of people will suggest me Left 4 Dead, yet as far as I know, it's mainly a multiplayer game and I can't really be arsed with that at the moment. If I want to experience multiplayer galore, I'll load up CoD4 or even CS1.6.

Let the suggestions roll in!