The demo allows you to take control of the Apprentice through the Tie Fighter factory hunting for a Jedi master. You come pre-equipped with force push, lightening, grip and of course your trusty lightsaber. The game is set to be released in a couple of weeks, so a demo is appropriately timed to hype the game in addition to the plethora of videos readily available on any gaming website.

My initial impression of the game didn’t make me want to buy the game immediately, however, I’ve been a fan of anything and everything Star Wars and will likely buy this game and learn to enjoy it. The force powers are impressive in execution and implementation. The lightsaber skills are equally nice, however I felt the controls were a little imprecise. Virtually anything and everything in your environment can be manipulated with force powers to become a weapon and that being the case the targeting reticle constantly tracks the numerous crates and objects lying around as opposed to the Stormtrooper shooting at me.

Another aspect of the game that had me at a disadvantage was the need to use the force powers as much as possible to quickly eliminate your enemies. However, I found myself spending more time trying to dash over to each individual Stormtrooper rather than strategically having a crate drop on his head. Perhaps better use of the force powers will yield a more enjoyable experience.

Bottom line, having played through the demo a single time, it wasn’t as good as I expected but no where near as bad as I feared. I think with a few play-throughs and a better use of the force powers this game might turn out to be quite enjoyable. I guess we’ll find out on September 16th.

Check out the video of the entire demo level in Part One and Two.

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This teaser for their next movie UP continues that fine tradition in an approx. 45 second video. Enjoy

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Cuil - A new search engine to rival Google

I searched for the string “linux usb hardy” in relation to an issue I was having with VirtuaBox on my Hardy based Linux machine and got back 2 completely useless results in Cuil while a plethora of useful results were hurled at me by Google.

I think Cuil has a way to go before declaring themselves “the world’s biggest search engine”.

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Very funny clip, but pardon the language..:)

In the little gaming time that I get these days I’ve been slowly traversing the massive world of Mass Effect. Without giving any of the plot away, I’m on the planet of Noveria and have essentially been stuck at the pivotal part of the game for the past couple of months now. I’ve tried various tactics to get past this point and all of my efforts have been faced with the inevitable fade to black.

After reading other gamers posts about the path they chose, turns out that I might have made a mistake going to Noveria with a fairly low-level and skilled character. The easier choice, of course, is to reload a save game from before I arrived on this planet and trying one of other destinations, but then I felt that I hadn’t really built up the characters as well as I probably could’ve.

To that end, I’ve decided to call it a mulligan and restart the game with a new character and try a different approach to see if I can not only get farther in the game and finish it before Mass Effect 2 is released.

Do you ever find yourself thinking that your choices in a game weren’t particularly good and do you restart or just salvage what you can?

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An additional change is in the Gallery where the pictures are displayed using Lightbox, a very nifty mechanism to display the images without having to reload the entire page.

I’ve been testing and fixing the theme and other parts of the site for a little while now and believe that everything is working as it should, be that not the case please let me know about it so I can fix it.

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All the recent buzz and a article on eWeek seem to declare the demise of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray the chosen format. I wonder what this means to the XBOX 360.

I guess in this case early adopters of HD-DVD are the ones that will pay dearly to not only abandon their current HD-DVD players but potentially pick up a Blu-Ray player or PS3?

Updated 02/23/08
Turns out that Toshiba decided to waive the white flag on HD DVD officially. All early Blu-Ray adopters now get to walk around with their nose held high and tongue sticking out at anyone who’d question their Next-gen HD choice. I guess Sony’s choice to bundle the Playstation 3 with Blu-Ray players was a smart idea after all.

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