The benefit of an injury
Reviewing games is a pretty cool job. I get free stuff, make a little money, work in my sweatpants and hang out with my little girl. Pretty cool. The drawback is that when you review a lot of games you undoubtedly review a lot of shitty ones to go along with the good ones. Also, I don’t review console games (long story). This means that I tend to miss out on a lot of the great games that I don’t get to review. Sports games? I play them all. But the other genres I tend to miss out on unless I am assigned to review the game. There’s only so much time in the day, ya know?
I was ultimately pissed when I ripped my ankle apart three weeks ago. I can now hobble around the house without the walking boot and can walk up the stairs (slowly). Running? Out of the question. But my foot looks like a foot instead of a bloated fish. I see that as progress. Physical therapy kinda sucks but hey…it’s working.
But there has been a weird kind of silver lining in all of this. Being locked onto the couch for the first two weeks allowed me to play some quality games that I missed earlier this year and late 2003. I tend to do this from time to time. Usually once a year I’ll take a month to play catch up and try to play all the games that you guys said were great but I just never had the time to play. So I’ve been gorging myself on some amazing games of late:
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (PC)
Tron 2.0 (PC)
These are all Grade A titles. As much as I love Bioware, RPGs, and Star Wars I feel like a doofus that I’m just now playing KotOR. But hey, like I said, tough to find free time for a mammoth game like that during the year.
At this rate I’ll get to stuff like FarCry and Battlefield Vietnam around Christmas time…
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Oh, the word now is that the EA Sports to Rule the World rumor was just that–rumor. I still wouldn’t put it past EA to do this, though.
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I’m still stunned that Roy Jones got his ass handed to him on Saturday. I’ll talk more about that after I see the fight when HBO runs it.