Since Wednesday of last week, I have been steadily increasing the size of my Game Library thanks to some irresistible sales I found on Amazon, Direct2Drive, and Steam. I am normally pretty diligent when it comes to posting these inductions onto this site so I am not really sure why I haven't done so with these last batch of games. The main reason why I would announce their inductions to begin with is to make it easier for me to monitor the amount of new games I get on a monthly basis. I have a separate Excel sheet with all the information but it's easier to just look at the monthly tab on this site instead of trying to locate these games between the data sheets categorized by systems.
Someone is angry.
Oh you know that it's going to be bloody!
Thursday, 04/07/2011 - Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition for the Personal Computer. It is basically a football game with a much smaller, simplified playing field but with a fantasy-world twist. One may expect this to be a high action sports game but it is actually a turn-based strategy game. The teams are comprised of races like orcs, vampires, mummies, dark elves, and many more. I am not big with sports games but the less realistic they are, the more attractive they become to me.
I haven't installed the second half of this package yet.
Saturday, 04/09/2011 - Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition for the Personal Computer. I already have the main game on the X-Box 360 but I couldn't say no to having the game again plus the two expansions for the game, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, for under $10. The game is such a resource hog however but I was able to run it nicely at 1920 x 1080 with a decent enough graphical setting. I booted up the 360 version to do a quick comparison and I was shocked to see what a yucky blurry mess that version was. There is no way I can play the game again on the 360 and I cannot wait to make the game a lot more beautiful when I upgrade my PC sometime in the future.
Will there be blood?
Monday, 04/10/2011 - Mafia II for the Personal Computer. There is a sweepstakes right now at Steam that provides its users the chance to win the entire catalogue of 2K Games titles. The contest requires the users however to own at least one of the discounted games being offered throughout this week and since there were a couple of people who insisted to me in the past that Mafia II is a great game, I decided to finally give it a go since it's helping me in my cause. It seems to be another Grand Theft Auto clone but at least it runs a lot better than GTAIV - I just hope that it will be at least as exciting.
A broken bridge is no big deal for a wizard like me.
Today, 04/13/2011 - Magicka Complete Pack for the Personal Computer as well as Samurai Shodown Anthology and World Heroes Anthology for the PlayStation 2. The last time I got a game for the PS2 was in April of last year and with these two, the system now has 464 titles available to me! Magicka is a action adventure game that can be played with 3 other players online. The main feature of the game is the spell combination mechanics where you must select different elements to create the spells you want to unleash. As for the two anthologies for the PS2, I already have a majority of the Samurai Shodown games on both my SegaSaturn and my import PS2 - I was only missing 2 but now I have all of them and more importantly, they are all presiding in one disc. I played a little bit of World Heroes Anthology earlier and found out that the first 3 games are quite terrible as charming as they are but the fourth one, World Heroes Perfect, is rather good. I remember being in the arcades at a young age eyeing the World Heroes games but I was too scared to try them out because they looked harder than Street Fighter II for some reason.
One of these two is a lot more refined than the other.
*By the way, writing all of these in one go is not fun at all.
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