Kireatic

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.

…or at least, the return of Kireas’ blog. Rawr. Be afraid.

Yeah, so I decided that my blog should actually be used occasionally, and following my oh-so-sensible method of using blogs, I deleted it. And reinstalled it again.

So, what have I been up to? Well, I passed my A-levels, although not to my satistfaction, and am retaking a few prior to applying to university. This basically gives me a year off, minus the revision I have to do to get my grades up.

This year off is filled with working for Clarks Shoes and my aunt (coding, no less) and playing games. Until recently, ‘games’ meant Team Fortress 2 and a few others, but TF2 has grown stale for me, not to mention I can’t take the constant QQ of clans anymore. So I’m going to work my way through all the singleplayer games I own (about 50 of them), make sure I have finished – or reached the endgame, where finish doesn’t apply – all of them, and play stuff like Quake 3 Arena, Unreal Tournament 2004, and Trackmania Nations where I feel the need for multiplayer. Yes, Trackmania Nations. Everyone needs some crazy upside-down F1 racing in their life.

Although, mentioning multiplayer games, I AM waiting for Left4Dead 2. Got it on pre-order, and it’s preloaded. Can’t pre-play it though, sadly. That’ll keep me occupied a week or so.

Anyways, expect updates every so often. I’ll try not to neglect the place this time around.