Thursday
04Feb2010

Grand Theft Auto

I have been a fan of of the Grand Theft Auto franchise for many years. It has been the catalyst for me buying two game systems the Playstation 2 and the Playstation portable.

I have GTA on several platforms:

  • GTA 2 on the Sega Dreamcast
  • GTA 3 on the PC
  • GTA San Andreas for the PS2
  • GTA Liberty City Stories on the PSP
  • GTA IV on the PC
  • GTA Chinatown Wars for iPhone

 

Chinatown Wars is a great port for the iPhone. It has a sort of GTA2 look with lots of details like the newer games have. For example when you steal a car you have to use a screwdriver or in some cases hot wire it by crossing the wires and twisting them. It's a good game that takes advantage of the multi-touch capabilities of the iPhone. I do wish the driving was easier. Using the accelerometer would have been a better choice for driving.

I haven't been able to play GTA IV much since my PC's video card is getting old. Luckily the laptop has a newer video card so it works there. It isn't very convienent playing GTA on a laptop especially one that is prone to overheating.

Thursday
04Feb2010

My Current Gaming Systems

My Current Gaming Systems:


  • Nintendo Gameboy (Original!)
  • Commodore Amiga 500
  • Sega DreamCast
  • AlienWare 3.2GHZ Dual core  w/ ATI X850 XT 256MB video card
  • Sony Playstation 2
  • Sony Playstation Portable
  • Toshiba Satellite Core2 Duo Laptop 256MB Video
  • iPhone 3g

 

Thursday
04Feb2010

Welcome To My Gaming Blog

I love to play games and I have written some posts abut gaming so I thought I would branch out and create a new journal just about gaming. Check out the post about my current consoles.

Sunday
29Nov2009

Call Of Duty - Modern Warfare 2

I know most people probably have the console version but for my birthday I received the PC version. After 20 minutes of installing the game in my Alienware PC I was dismayed to see the error that a 3.0 shaded supported video card could not be found. I thought I would have to return it but I did some research and found our Toshiba gaming laptop we got last year had a Nvidia 8700M GT video card that is compatible! I spent another 45 minutes or so installing the game on the laptop and it worked! The laptop gets VERY hot and has shutdown on me a few times but the game plays well on the laptop even in full 1400x900 resolution. The game graphics are outstanding and the missions are challenging. You get to man the gun in a humvee, climb an ice wall and drive snowmobiles. The game rocks!