Ubi Owns My Soul
posted by Norm on April 1st, 2004 • filed under GeneralI was going to do another April Fools day post, a rather long and elaborate joke that probably would have caught a lot of you, but it turns out that my laziness and apathy know no bounds at all. My train of thought went something like this: I did a post last year and people seemed to like it, maybe I could do another one. Of course, if I do it two years in a row that establishes a trend, maybe even a tradition, that I’ll feel compelled to continue down the road. That means more work for me, and really I don’t have time to get a post up in the morning anyway…screw it.
Pathetic, I know.
Actually, I could have written it up last night like I’d originally planned if it weren’t for the fact that Beyond Good and Evil is one of the best games I’ve played in years. I was already pretty sure I liked it when I first started into it, but the farther I get the cooler it becomes. The game is an almost perfect blend of intriguing and engaging plot, good character design, simple but satisfying controls and gameplay elements and a wonderful soundtrack that adds so much to the experience. Even the graphics, which I was originally disappointed in, have taken on a kind of style all there own, not quite cell-shaded but not striving to be realistic either. BG&E simply exudes style and wit from every surface and I can’t help but be drawn in.
Along with BG&E, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time are also waiting in the wings. Add that to the previously released Splinter Cell game, Ghost Recon, and the recently released Far Cry and you have a lineup from Ubisoft that is absolutely stellar. At this point I could almost dump every other publisher and feel little if no remorse at all; Ubi continues to put out gaming gold, and I can only hope other publishers pick up the slack and follow suit.
Tomorrow, I promise to talk about something other that videogames. No, really, I meant it.
//_Norm out
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