Tuesday, December 14, 2010

iPad: Infinity Blade Reviewed

First of all, yes, this is the orgasmic eye candy it looks like in all the screen shots. The graphics are video quality, the fight scenes are at first intense and the game play is interesting.

Then it kind of falls apart. I won't add any spoilers here, but it gets repetitive quickly, the choose your own adventure style of play is limiting in that you are moving from fight scene to fight scene, and while you can make those fights as fast or as slow as you want, really that is all the content in the game.

Relax, you say, its only 6$. True, and for the 6$ its a tremendous start, it truly shows what the iPad COULD achieve if someone spent the R&D budget and came out with a 30$ game to provide content where I could, oh I don't know, MOVE my toon around this amazing world, where I had more than a single castle to investigate. Admittedly, I have only played the game for a couple of hours, and so haven't finished it yet. If it holds my attention long enough for me to get past the first boss I'll let you know if there is more coming, but if the entire game centers around killing this first boss then its not worth buying, except of course to show off your iPad's amazing graphic capabilities to your friends who are on the fence...:)

Monday, December 13, 2010

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm... say no more.

I've been a little pre-occupied with work, and with the game to really be doing much of anything else. Oh and there was jenn throwing out her back to add a little spice to life... But I was thinking over the last couple of days about my iPad and what I should write in the blog, and realized that I no longer think about the pad.. other than my fun of upgrading to 4.2 (bricked twice, long story) it's just a fact of life now, no longer a novelty.

I have seen a sharp increase in the number of iPads showing up at meetings, if only our company had WiFi in our office I think that it would take off even faster... I was thinking over a survey on one of the sites I frequent (www.tuaw.com) where they said what would make you buy an iPad 2.0. To be honest, I'll probably buy one with 3G... lame I know, but I'll use the 2.0 as an excuse to buy a 3G version next time around, even though I am using it almost exclusively for work, its hampered by the fact that we don't have WiFi and therefore its very hard to get documents on to it, and show up to meetings with the presentation in e-hand instead of printed out...

Still loving it, and theres a rumour going around that I am getting that Zagg case that I wrote about before for Christmas, can't wait...:)