Clearing the Air

Drain the brake fluid on your buddy's car.
It's April Fool's Day.
Keep an eye out for headlines suggesting that Duke Nukem Forever is coming out.
It'll just end up being a gag.
Or a Road Rash sequel...
Y'know, all the game industry consists of now is frigging sequels.
You think someone would have made a new Road Rash by now.
When's the last time any of you wailed on Biff with a chain?
Exactly.
Ubisoft got their April Fool's joke out a little early.
Check out the gag here, via Gamespot.
Good one, Ubisoft.
You almost had us there.

It's a big day for me.
I still look the same as I do, but! I'm getting a PS3 today.
Big deal.
I was okay without one for this long.
But there are too many exclusives that I'm missing now.
I believe I already mentioned Demon's Souls.

My Dead Space rental will have to be cut short as a consequence.
However, I'm very glad I picked up this property before its' next iteration.
If you ignore the lack of statues and playing card-themed keys,
this title is more Resident Evil than Resident Evil 4 is.
Well, it's a bit of a tie, maybe.
I mentioned earlier that this game has a great sense of atmosphere.
And this proved truer as I progressed through the tram rides.
Not only did Redwood Shores nail their attempts at ambiance.
They shift that ambiance as Issac makes his way through the goo.
It's reminiscent of Bioshock in that way.
After so many gloomy hallways, a change of pace was due.
But I didn't expect the Hydroponics Labs.
You walk into this green, lush, clean environment.
And after listening to so many crying babies and violin riffs...
...crickets.
It's such a pleasant shift in tone, it's almost palpable.
Like a shedding of skin.
Or, you know when your socks are really wet and you want to take them off?
It's like that.
Then you have to shoot those poisonous wheezies with the mutated lungs.
And they prove to be creepier than any monster in the game.
If you took this long to play it like I did, today's your day.
Break up with your girlfriend and splurge the twenty bucks.
Slam the game for a few days.
Then tell your (ex-)girlfriend that you were April Fooling her.
Didn't expect that little tidbit of genius, did you?
Gaming is all about distancing yourself from your girlfriend.
And then tricking her into having sex with you again.
If you have this title, dust it off.
It deserves another go-around.



edit: I have to figure out how to make videos of my own gameplay.