Time Recursion

[SinglePic not found]It’s hardly possible that you’ve not yet heard about the Duke Nukem franchise, except if you’re not interested in computer games, and you’re still in primary school. The first three games, bearing this title have been released in the distant nineties in the previous millennium. The last one, Duke Nukem 3D started its sales in 1996, evoking a revolution among the 3D games and their game play, and meant a big step forward in both visual and playing experience. The extraordinary reception of the game led to the first announcement of the future game, called Duke Nukem Forever in 1997, which, according to the sources, should be released “soon”. Everything else is history.

In the past, almost twelve years, we’ve been witnessess to an endless massive campaigns promoting this game all around, showing us inside peaks, and promises of the upcoming release, to the point it all began to look like a bad hoax.

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A few days ago, I was searching around for a simple and entertaining game, and I came across World of Goo. Until then, I didn’t ever think that it was possible to create such an entertaining gaming experience, full of witty text signs and intelligent puzzles, accompanied with great graphics and and awesome design. And to think that this is a work of only two people! If you have too much spare time on your behalf, don’t hesitate to try out the demo version. I can guarantee that you will want more!

Just one year after the fourth installment of Call of Duty, we received the next version. This time we’re back into the second world war, fighting in both Europe and Pacific, for a change. The new version is built on the game engine of Modern Warfare, so we can expect wonderful effects and great gameplay. I really can’t complain after what I’ve seen in the beta version. I’m a fan of the series since the beginning and they’ve never let me down, their results have been great thus far.

Of course, I also agree with many of you that they’re releasing the new versions too quickly. The best of the first two versions (especially Call of Duty 2) was that there was enough time for communities to arise. Just remember how many mods and servers were available only two years ago. Now, there wasn’t enough time for something similar to happen with the fourth version, and it won’t with the last one. Activision has already announced Call of Duty 6, which is expected to be out in a year or so. If they would at least use this time to make a longer single player campaign it would be better. But anyway, I’m eager to get my hands on the final version of this game, which should be out in Europe in three days.