Rather Unimpressive

Those who read me regularly are likely aware that I GameFly. I find it is a great way to try out crap games without ever having to buy them. You know the titles, curious looking, you know they probably suck, but want to confirm it.

Today we confirm one real stinker, and another that just doesn't suit my taste. The first is Retro Atari Classics: 10 or so old Atari games that I don't remember liking much the first time around. They've had some "artists" spruce up the graphics, since computers are a bit better than they were back in the day. Centipede comes out psychedelic, but rather unplayable due to the odd stylus system where you don't touch where your guy goes, but close to where he goes. Missile command's new look is nice, but the touch screen is too sensitive so you run out of missiles rather quickly, leaving your cities defenseless. Gravitar, Sprint, and Lunar Lander always sucked, so who cares... Breakout and Pong get old so quickly, and Asteroids has never been my favorite (plus it's already on my sidekick). Warlords is OK, but it's just 4 player Pong mixed with Breakout, which still gets old quickly. And Tempest just looks and plays crappy on the DS.

The second is Zookeeper, a fancied up version of Bejeweled. I found it much more enjoyable than Bejeweled, but I find Bejeweled barely more fun than popping bubble plastic. (Though that is a mini-game in Warioware Touched, which I did love). If you like Bejeweled you will love Zookeeper, as it is a bit more challenging, and there are some nifty new rules to it. Perhaps there are super cool unlockables as well, I'm not patient enough to find them.

What I'm really looking forward to is the 3rd game sent my way, which somehow didn't make it with the other two, God of War. It looks to be a contender for PS2 Game of the Year, perhaps even Game of the Year, even if Resident Evil 4 should be a shoe in for that one.