Splintering Some Cells
1:50pm - 15 December 2006 - 403 views - 5 CommentsPosted in: Computer Gaming, For Geeks Only, Gibberish
I’ve been very much bothered by my neighbour these days. They are bloodyfreakinggoddammit noisy during the nights. I’m sure they’re actually dancing around thumping chairs and whatnot like monkeys. They’re right above me! I could even hear them sing (I would prefer to say shout like uncivilised barbarians) THREE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING. The thumpings have gotten louder day by day and it’s a matter of time before my ceiling actually collapse under the stress of the idiots.
This picture is a very nice depiction of a proper African dance. I’m being too kind.
I don’t care if they want to do some ritual dance or start hollering like baboons, but do it in the noon or evening, I don’t care. NOT THREE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING. Maybe they are part-time humans. Human by day, Neanderthal by night. Either way, they greatly lack what it takes to be civilised people. I’m tempted to buy them a “drink” sometimes. Yeah, a Molotov Cocktail.
Enough about that.
Anyway, my holidays have officially started and I’ve been doing nothing but wasting time with stupid stuff playing some Splinter Cell: Double Agent.
The moment I got into the game, I was given a mission in some icy place. And guess what?
Doesn’t he need swimming goggles or something? Won’t his eyeballs freeze??
Enemy guards just looooove to stand at the part where the ice is the thinnest so you can very conveniently break the ice directly under them, pull them below into the icy water, and stab them in the chest. I suppose that’s meant to make Sam (no, not you Sam. Sam Fisher) look good. Because I must admit Sam did look good doing that. Though at the same time it made the enemy totally retarded. He’s got miles and miles of solid ice to stand on but he chose the thinnest part of all. He deserved to die. Hahahaha….
A little more into the game, there was another thing that was true to the Splinter Cell tradition. Enemies are totally oblivious to the 3 bright dots on the mighty high-tech 3-in-1 goggles that Sam always carry.
It’s green. It’s bright. Oh, it’s nothing.
They’re also equally oblivious to the “Threat Indicator” Sam has on his back.
Sam feels very secure even with a bright glowing thingy on his back.
But I must admit there were a few rather stylish parts in the game. Like when Sam was para-dropping into enemy territory. But then at the same time he wasn’t so cool-lah. His parachute got stuck =.=” And I was supposed to ‘help’ him deploy the chute.
Look ma! No chute!
Overall, I think it’s a solid game. But laughable things happen. Enemies wouldn’t notice you even if you were right under their noses because it’s ‘dark enough’…. they like to stand on the thin ice… they like to stand beside the window so you can conveniently pull them down… Sam can withstand a blast of machinegun fire but the enemies will get knocked out with a single punch…
I haven’t been able to play much of it though. It makes me sick. Literally. I get nauseous if I play too long. That happens to me pretty often if the game was in a dark environment. And the constant spinning of the camera doesn’t help.
Gotta run off for badminton.
