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Now that I have a widescreen Mac and Gmail IMAP I thought I’d give this bundle for horizontal layout of Mail.app a try. Seems to work fine (not available for Leopard yet though.)
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Finally a Bioshock review that cuts through all the (admittedly impressive) dressing and embedded narrative to arrive at the conclusion that mechanically speaking, it isn’t such an amazing game at all.
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Armitage on the newly announced S60 touch interface. I’m thoroughly underwhelmed by the video – music ripped from The Roots, horrible ‘acting’… All doesn’t help to sell me on this. The tagline “open to new features” is possibly the worst part.
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Good to see someone else agreeing that Bioshock wasn’t that great ;-) And even in the narrative arena, I prefer the logical, make-sense approach offered by Half Life 2 Episode 2 to the Doom 3/FEAR style “observe by listening to things people recorded onto diaries that no one in their right mind would record onto a diary and even if they did wouldn’t leave it lying around the city abandoned” method. Even Metroid Prime 3 has more to offer in the realm of narration, despite not being written as well.
The interesting thing here is that Ken Levine himself seems to have a good idea of what kind of in-game storytelling works. He said some very sensible things in an interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun a while back:
Hmmm…