After nearly a month, my Gaming legs are back. Back form a RMA, my PC’s motherboard was repaired and everything is right with the world again(well, atleast my world). And just in time, a whole bunch of events are going on in the gaming world. One is the launch of Wrath Of the Lich King. For the last few days, the land of Azeroth has been attacked by zombies. The plague got so bad that it almost instantly turned everyone into the walking dead. On the Guild Wars side, Mad King Thorn has returned with his usual antics. Promising goodies and grief along the way. The only thing that is usually different is the type of seasonal hat he has to give out this time around.
Also on the way is Left 4 Dead. I’ve been waiting for this game for a long time now. Everything I hear about it seems to be very awesome. Even those who have played it, loved it. And it releases the same week as Wrath. How’s that for splitting your time in gaming. I also plan to pick up Castlevania: Order Of Ecclesia for the DS whenever I get a chance.
So by now, Spore should be ready to go for many people on Sunday. The previous Sunday, I was in Houston after a near 8 hour drive from my home town in Louisiana because of Hurricane Gustav. The great thing about that was I got to see my family in Houston and then come back to my home still in one piece. There were a ton of tree damage throughout the area and raised a concern of mine. A LOT of those trees were diseased and rotting. I don’t know if its because they are simply old or because something changed in the atmosphere here that caused them to slowly die out.
But now that I am back home I am just in time for Spore which seems to be getting a lot of mixed reviews from enthusiast press. Even more mixed is Stalker: Clear Sky which some of the press says “more of the same, but buggier“. I have no idea because I never played the first Stalker. And right behind it is the sequel of the king of render, Crysis: Warhead. This one I am looking forward to because I played the first one and it was great. Not too far behind IT is Warhammer Online which just looks like World Of Warcraft but “serious“. I haven’t even begin to find out about the Nintendo DS games and others coming out this month. And its only going to get worse.
Fall season for games makes my wallet ache.