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Part of the One Hundred Plus Games Review.

So, after my non-review of NeoTokyo, I went back over to the listings to see what my next game was. Regrettably it turned out to be Peggle Extreme. So, this looks to be a very short review, yet again.

Peggle Extreme is the free edition of Peggle, given out with Nvidia graphics cards along with a Portal demo, Half Life 2: Deathmatch and Half Life 2: Lost Coast. It’s a casual game, basically revolving around you trying to hit all the orange blocks and pegs on a board before you run out of pinballs to do it with.

It’s oddly fun, as casual games are, and seeing how the game is free, I would recommend at least trying it out to see if you want to purchase the actual version. The ‘extreme’ version has Half Life, TF2 and Portal themes throughout, with a brief bit of CS:S, but is terribly short which is a shame.

Graphics are terrible, as Popcap don’t ‘do’ high resolution games. Best played in windowed mode. Provided you aren’t trying to full screen it, it looks okay.

Gameplay is addictive, but thankfully in this version, short, as I don’t want to be stuck playing Peggle all day, to be quite honest. Re-playability is quite high, as while the layout doesn’t change, the position of the orange blocks does.

What else can I say? There’s an attempt at some sort of story involving headcrabs, but…you know. It’s Peggle.

Peggle gets:

Gameplay: 6/10
Graphics: 4/10
Addictiveness: 8/10

Overall score for Peggle…6/10. Well, what did you expect? It’s Peggle.

Came across these shirts on ThinkGeek, and now I want a pair.

The cake is a lie.

These two shirts show in the portal whatever it is that the paired shirt is facing, thus creating the illusion of a portal.

From the ThinkGeek website:

Product Features

• Electronic shirts simulate teleportation portals from the game Portal
• Each shirt features a wireless 5.8Ghz pinhole video camera in the front
• Embedded TFT LCD screens in the chest area of each shirt simulate the portal
• The camera from one shirt transmits the image wirelessly to the other, and vise versa
• Each shirt is powered by one 2190mAh Lithium-Ion battery pack stored in the included belt-pack
• 1.5 to 2 hours continuous run time, 4.2 hours recharge time
• All electronics are completely removable to enable shirts to be washed
• Wired composite video input allows you to play video games or movies on the shirt screen
• Shirts must be purchased as a pair to work properly

GLaDOS Promises a coupon for free cake will be included with each shirt purchase

They are a little pricey, at US$99 per shirt

ThinkGeek’s Portal Shirts

P.S. – Pay attention to GLaDOS’ promise of cake. This may well apply to the shirts, remember. When you figure it out, you’ll be as sad as I was. I still want them.