Joshua Called Me
Distilling the interwebs for your viewing pleasure, my name is Richard Smith and I'm a Perl programmer and web-designer from Scotland. My most recent project is What Film, where you can share your film viewings on Twitter. Nobody uses it, because I'm not friends with Kevin Rose. I can be contacted via richard at square8 dot com.
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This is just unbelievable. I know it’s a couple of months old, but this is easily the most realistic gameplay I’ve ever seen. The lighting, the animation, the world these characters are inhabiting really does look next-gen.
When I used to play Cannon Fodder and you got the names of your soldiers who were killed at the end of a round, you felt a bit sad if you’d managed to keep Jops alive for a while only for him to get gunned down.
In this, your AI teammates are like living, breathing entities. That’s incredibly powerful if done right.
I’m always intrigued by Windows Phone 7 devices. I like that they’ve gone their own route, and aren’t simply trying to be an iPhone. Android devices remind me a lot of Linux on the desktop, there’s always some nice features, and the hackability can be fun; but ultimately it just doesn’t have the polish of the commercial offerings.
Windows Phone 7 looks like a phone I could actually use. But it does it have the ecosystem around it? Not just for apps, but in music and video too? Will there be regular updates? Can I sync it with my iMac to get all my photos?
That’s the problem with phones. You have to make a two year commitment to them, so there’s no opportunity to just try it out. I’d need to be completely sure of my choice. And at the moment with an iPhone, I know what I’d be getting if I bought another.
