Saints Row: The Third Preview

Saints Row: The Third plays very much like the other Saints rows games with both on foot and driving controllers feeling very similar which is definitely not a bad thing, the big change in the series is the graphics that look a lot more realistic than previous games.

The customization looks to have been improved with loads of new clothes that would make anyone look stupid. The ability to buy shops featured in the demo and the activity's will also be making a return. Weapons feel similar to the other games but the melee combat has greatly improved From the very short time I am very impressed and will be buying on launch in November.

Oh BTW there's a new trailer featuring one of the new gangs called "The Deckers" a gang that look very tron like and from the trailer looks like the Saints will be under attack from these guys online as well as off.

Game Fest

So on Friday I went to "Game Fest" (a convention organized by the UK retailer Game) with my good friend James. The convention had a great number of games on show from Battlefield 3 to Just Dance. Predictably the big games such COD and Battlefield had very large queues so we decided to keep to some of the smaller titles, than just to play a couple of big games. I really enjoyed Game Fest and met gaming personality's such as Dan Maher aka MrPointyHead from inside Xbox.

The show in all was really good and we got to play I fair few games and get lots of freebees in the process. I will be uploading more in depth previews of the games we played in the next couple of days, other than that I really enjoyed the show and I wouldn't call a money spinning venture, although this is certainly not the last we've seen of Game Fest as it has been confirmed for next year and will probably grow year on year.

The Angry and Cranky Podcast

 Hi everyone some of you may know that me and my friend Kurt have been producing a gaming podcast called The Angry and Cranky podcast. The first episode of which is up on thegamerstudio.com the podcast consist of gaming news our thoughts on the latest games and old games that we recommend playing. The podcast will be released a biweekly and I will be updating when it's released on my twitter page. Hope you like it and enjoy listening.

Mac Gaming

 

As some of you may know I own a imac, I primarily use it for video and photo editing for uni where I use specialist programs. Although I use my mac mostly media I use it occasionally for gaming, I started with games from the humble indie bundle, as almost all these games work with mac. Games such as braid and penumbra work very well and look great on the imac's high res screen, I really enjoyed penumbra and decided to purchase the 2 sequel's, the penumbra games are first person adventure games so no skill is involves just puzzle solving.

More recently I downloaded TF2 for my mac, the main reason was to see how it ran compared to my aging PC that was getting around 10fps when there was any kind of action. TF2 on my mac run reasonably well with me getting around 30fps in heavy action and about 60fps out of action.
 
The issue I have with playing TF2 on my mac is the fact that I have only the standard keyboard and and the dreaded magic mouse, the the mouse is definitely not built with gaming in mind with the mouse being one large surface that detects both both mouse click and stroll wheel, technically impressive but very hard to game with.

In short mac is getting more and more games released for it and is more than capable of handling them although at the moment PC's and consoles are better platforms for gaming.