I couldn't post this earlier because I just can't stop playing Uncharted 2!

Hi SuperViv,

Yes! Now that I'm going to be alone for a whole month, this is my last chance to play games in a hardcore way. The problem with being a father is that you can't play ultraviolent stuff anymore. That would include 80% of my favourite games! :(

Nice Minesweeper trailer. Is the movie going to be directed by Uwe Boll or what? That would be funny. Remember when we went to his house [Hey, readers! Did you know he lives just half an hour away from the office where SuperViv and I work?]) and interviewed him? I really got the impression that Minesweeper was probably the only game he's ever played. Oh, and his own game.

Still, I think Picross really makes a difference with those little animations you get. Some of them are really funny, so completing a puzzle is very rewarding for me. The only problem is that Picross has an eventual end, when you run out of puzzles. Minesweeper is potentially endless, if you never run out of patience...

Yes, I got Uncharted 2. And my short review is this: Uncharted 2 is the best console game I've ever played.

Of course there's a train sequence! And you know, I personally believe a game is made x2 times more awesome if it has a sequence in a speeding train. The original Soldier of Fortune, Shadows of the Empire...

I'll tell you more about it soon. Now, I'm trying to complete my third playthrough!

Later,

- Danda

More Sims, Minesweeper: The Movie, and Uncharted 2

Hi Danda,

So, now that your wife is in Spain, I imagine you will be playing more video games again! :)

I haven't played a lot lately, but I'm still itching to complete GTA IV. It's taking me forever.

I do like games like The Sims or The Movies and such, although I find it's easy to get tired of them if you don't really have a defined objective. In The Sims, your objective of course was to improve in your job (or at least I think it was), and that was fun until you had to have a certain number of friends in order to progress in your job, which meant you had to have people over and then talk to them again and again till your sim basically collapsed due to exhaustion. It just got tiring after a while. Years ago when I was playing it and got bored with it, I decided to just create a commune of 10 people in it to make it more exciting, but I didn't have enough bathrooms and they kept peeing on the floor and threw their trash everywhere. Shocking.

Picross is fun, as is Minesweeper. I don't think the payoff in Picross of seeing a new image or animation is really more exciting than simply winning in Minesweeper, though. Also, have you seen the trailer to the Minesweeper movie? Hehe.

By the way, you wrote JR that you're going to get Uncharted 2? I saw a review of Uncharted 2 a while ago and it looks awesome. It's too bad they're not making this into a PC game. Sad also that it's not even out for the Xbox 360, even though that's the console I think I'd be getting if I were to get a console. Oh well.

Also, there seems to be a scene in the game where you have to fight your way along a moving train, and it reminds me very much of a really old game where you also had to do that, but for the life of me, I can't remember what that game was.... Any ideas?

Anyway, have a good day!

Game on,
-- SuperViv