I’m not dead. Beta review coming soon. -Matt Graham

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Beta Review Coming Soon – 9.14.2008

(Guest post by Jaithas)

Many of us have been waiting over a year for Spore and at one point it seemed to be another Duke Nuk’em Forever (Never!) but it is here and this is the review. Spore is yet another product from the people who gave us “The Sims” but believe me when I say that Spore will not be a game that you just put down and never pick back up, and not even EA could screw this one up.

I never touched the “Creature Creator” but I had no problem playing this from the start, like “The Sims” the controls are simple and easy to use and they explain each evolutionary step as you take it. You can create any monstrosity you want and use it in the game and thanks to EA Online you can share them with friends, they could also be found inhabiting a planet on someone else’s game.

Don’t underestimate the enemy because the AI in Spore is nothing to laugh at. I won’t tell you how because it would be giving some of the gameplay away.
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Okay, so I’d like to acknowledge the comments made on my “WAR Is Good, WoW Is Better” post. Trust me, I am aware that it is IMPOSSIBLE to review an MMO after only a few hours of play. The earlier blog post was supposed to really be a “first impression” from what I had experienced and a full review would come later when I could actually get the time to play. I thought that by saying I only played for a few hours, it would imply that I wasn’t doing a full review, but I guess I should have made that more clear. I apologize to anyone who may have been offended when seeing that post as a full review. -Matt Graham

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Let Me Clarify… – 8.30.2008

So, I got around to playing in the Preview Weekend. I didn’t play much – no more than a total of 2.5 hours. I just didn’t have the time. In that time, I did basic beginning level PvE, Public Quests, Scenario RvR, and extremely limited RvR (my computer couldn’t handle it). From what I experienced, I came to the conclusion that WAR is a really good game, but WoW is better. Everyone seems to want to compare the two games, so I will do so as well. I realize that WAR is not yet complete – I mean, WAR is still in beta (okay, but yes, I guess it did go gold today) – and WoW is nearing it’s 4th year anniversary. I didn’t play for very long and even I was able to see that there is a lot missing in WAR. I know that WAR is not PvE centric, but I gotta tell ya, if Mythic doesn’t add a few more PvE elements into the game, it simply won’t be as successful as it could be. In my opinion, we are talking a possible 2 or 3 million subscribers if more solid PvE was introduced vs. 850,000 is the game stays the way it currently is. The people that want a solely PvP MMO are deinitely the minority – and then there’s the people that say they would love a solely PvP MMO before they go and finally play and run back to WoW like the carebears they are. It’s just not realistic right now. WAR at launch will NOT be AoC at launch. WAR is much more complete than AoC was at launch, but then again that’s not saying a whole lot considering AoC is one of the least “complete” games I’ve ever seen at launch. The reality is that even after the months of delays, WAR is not as far along as it should be. I hate to go back to it, but maybe if Mythic had decided to push WAR back to 2009 we would not only have a more polished game with better PvE, but also the 4 capital cities and classes that were removed. I’m not going to say that I completely regret pre-ordering the Collector’s Edition just yet. I’m going to see what happens. I’ll definitely subscribe for a month of WAR, and in that period I will make a decision – whether I will continue to play, or wait six months and come back. I really want WAR to be a sucess. Giving up after the first month of the game’s release is not an option for me. I’m not sure if I’m going to log into the open beta when Mythic opens that up on September 7th. We’ll see what happens. P.S. – The above picture is my rank 2 Warrior Priest exploring the zone. -Matt Graham

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WAR Is Good, WoW Is Better – 8.26.2008

Okay, so podcasting is big, really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is (if you can guess what i just quoted you win an e-cookie), but how does one go about downloading podcasts?  Well, there are a number of ways.

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