I know it's not Christmas yet, still 4 days away. But I wanted to make sure to say Merry Christmas in my next post, because I probably won't make another one before Christmas! I'll be too busy doing family stuff!!!!
So, last time I made a post, I said I was in the middle of reading Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell novel... Well I finished that. Then I went and picked up the next book in the series, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda, and I finished that last night. Operation Barracuda was even better than the first book, I loved it! I'd talk about it but I don't want to give anything away, in case anyone ever wants to read the books =/.
The next book in the series is Splinter Cell: Checkmate. I don't have a clue what its about, but who cares? It's Splinter Cell and Sam Fisher is the star. That's all that matters!
Although I have seen on the internet, (specifically the Amazon reader reviews) that the book has some serious typos and grammatical errors all over the place, especially in the beginning. I have no doubt about this, since the author was allegedly given only 2 months to write the book! I don't know how those guys do it! Errors or not, I'm a huge fan of not just Splinter Cell games, but now the novel series, and I am getting this book and reading it, regardless of errors. I'll just power read my way through them and ignore the mistakes :).
It's actually pretty confusing about the authors; The writer's name is labeled on the front of the books as David Michaels, but this is just pseudonym. The author's actual name of the first two Splinter Cell books was Raymond Benson. Benson is best known as the last official author of the 007 series novels. Well, I read his Splinter Cell work and I must say, I'm impressed and I am now a fan. But the last two books of Splinter Cell, Checkmate, and Fallout was written by another author, so far unknown, going by the same pseudonym, David Michaels.
And the first two Splinter Cell books were written in the first person (which is the writing style I enjoy most), while the latest two books are in the third person (not written by Raymond Benson). Due to some of these changes in the books since the switch in authors, I am worried about the quality! I'm sure I'll enjoy the next books though.
I'm going to wait on Christmas, see if anyone got me the books. If not then I have to buy them :(.
Next up in my update... Duke isn't dead!!! After quite a while, 3DRealms has released a Teaser of Duke Nukem Forever... I think the last big news I saw on Duke Nukem was in 2001.
When I was a kid, the Duke Nukem was one of my first games ever. I played and loved the side-scrollers, and I really loved Duke Nukem 3D. So I was excited about Duke Nukem Forever... At least for the first 4 years it was in development, but since then the game has been under development for 10 years. After a while I forgot, then people started realizing that it hadn't come out yet and started laughing at it.
It looks interesting, but it's only a teaser and doesn't show much. I'm not really super excited for Duke anymore, but I am looking forward to it's release if it ever comes out. Heh, I was wondering if they were going to delay the teaser before it released :).
I've been continuing work on the modification for Doom 3, Ruiner. Everything is looking good and our work is really progressing! I can't wait to release this baby and see people's reaction!
Friday, December 21, 2007
Saturday, December 15, 2007
A new book and a new game.
As much as I hate to push down the post that reveals my awesome work on the mod (the Icon of Sin), I must make a new post!
Quite some time ago, maybe 2004 or so I picked up a Tom Clancy novel called Splinter Cell, the first in the series of, so far, four books. I probably read the first chapter or so and decided I didn't like the slow paced style of writing, and I put it down.
For some reason, for quite some time the only style of writing I could enjoy was Dean Koontz books, he writes in a fast paced style keeping every corner of the page intense, it's always been exciting. But recently I found my Splinter Cell book again, and I decided to give it another shot.
I'm on page 235, I think. I've only got about 120 or so pages left and I can't wait to see what happens! I think after I finish this book I will get the next novel in the series.
I remember I got the book because I loved the games, of course. I've been playing the Splinter Cell games since the very first one, and I especially loved Chaos Theory. But for a while I did not pick up their latest Splinter Cell game, Double Agent. I played the demo some time ago on my older computer, which had an AMD x2 64 4400+, 7800 GTX, and a gig of ram; at the time that was an awesome computer. But even so, the demo had serious problems on that computer, it ran at probably 2 frames per second at any time and just was UNPLAYABLE.
Eventually I upgraded with another computer, right now my gaming computer has an Intel Core 2 Duo e6600, 8800 GTX, and 2 gigs of RAM. I played the demo on it, and it ran smooth as silk, but I still didn't buy Double Agent. I had heard all over the internet that the game was pretty buggy, especially the PC version. As much as I loved Splinter Cell, I know how to stifle myself when something looks to be an obvious disappointment because of technical flaws.
But just recently I noticed Double Agent was only 20 bucks on Direct2Drive.com, so I decided to get it. And thankfully, there haven't been any major issues for me so far. I have ran into a few bugs, one of them I recorded with FRAPs and posted it at YouTube (see below for the video).
The game is actually pretty good, but I'm not finished with it. I'm at the Cruise Ship mission (in case you've played the game), and I plan on going further today once I get a chance to play. But, I think Chaos Theory is still my favorite game in the series. Not just because of all the technical issues Double Agent has (ok well 80% because of that), but just because I liked the feel of it more. Another thing I dislike about Double Agent is the fact, that in the beginning of the game (it's no spoiler), it's revealed to the player that Sarah, Sam Fisher's daughter had been killed. WTF!?!?!? Why did they need to do that! That's ridiculous! If Tom Clancy approved this then, DUDE!! WTF!? Seriously, she's a great character in the book and shouldn't have come to an end. I'm not sure if the books and the games live in different dimensions, though I would assume so, that would mean that his daughter is still alive in the novel series.... Unless she dies in one of the books I haven't read yet... Oh what a world, what a world.
Here's that YouTube video (Btw, I play the PC version. I played the PC version of the entire series.):
Quite some time ago, maybe 2004 or so I picked up a Tom Clancy novel called Splinter Cell, the first in the series of, so far, four books. I probably read the first chapter or so and decided I didn't like the slow paced style of writing, and I put it down.
For some reason, for quite some time the only style of writing I could enjoy was Dean Koontz books, he writes in a fast paced style keeping every corner of the page intense, it's always been exciting. But recently I found my Splinter Cell book again, and I decided to give it another shot.
I'm on page 235, I think. I've only got about 120 or so pages left and I can't wait to see what happens! I think after I finish this book I will get the next novel in the series.
I remember I got the book because I loved the games, of course. I've been playing the Splinter Cell games since the very first one, and I especially loved Chaos Theory. But for a while I did not pick up their latest Splinter Cell game, Double Agent. I played the demo some time ago on my older computer, which had an AMD x2 64 4400+, 7800 GTX, and a gig of ram; at the time that was an awesome computer. But even so, the demo had serious problems on that computer, it ran at probably 2 frames per second at any time and just was UNPLAYABLE.
Eventually I upgraded with another computer, right now my gaming computer has an Intel Core 2 Duo e6600, 8800 GTX, and 2 gigs of RAM. I played the demo on it, and it ran smooth as silk, but I still didn't buy Double Agent. I had heard all over the internet that the game was pretty buggy, especially the PC version. As much as I loved Splinter Cell, I know how to stifle myself when something looks to be an obvious disappointment because of technical flaws.
But just recently I noticed Double Agent was only 20 bucks on Direct2Drive.com, so I decided to get it. And thankfully, there haven't been any major issues for me so far. I have ran into a few bugs, one of them I recorded with FRAPs and posted it at YouTube (see below for the video).
The game is actually pretty good, but I'm not finished with it. I'm at the Cruise Ship mission (in case you've played the game), and I plan on going further today once I get a chance to play. But, I think Chaos Theory is still my favorite game in the series. Not just because of all the technical issues Double Agent has (ok well 80% because of that), but just because I liked the feel of it more. Another thing I dislike about Double Agent is the fact, that in the beginning of the game (it's no spoiler), it's revealed to the player that Sarah, Sam Fisher's daughter had been killed. WTF!?!?!? Why did they need to do that! That's ridiculous! If Tom Clancy approved this then, DUDE!! WTF!? Seriously, she's a great character in the book and shouldn't have come to an end. I'm not sure if the books and the games live in different dimensions, though I would assume so, that would mean that his daughter is still alive in the novel series.... Unless she dies in one of the books I haven't read yet... Oh what a world, what a world.
Here's that YouTube video (Btw, I play the PC version. I played the PC version of the entire series.):
Well, I think that's all the news I have for now. I have to get to work on the Ruiner mod now, I've been neglecting it for the past couple of days unfortunately, I've been topsy turvy :(.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Modding mod mod!!!
If you want to know what I've been up to, there's your answer. (Plus some schoolwork tossed in there.) I've been working with my fellow mod team on the awesome looking mod, Ruiner, for Doom 3. And we have recently released a shot of what the Icon of Sin looks like so far in-game, and you can see it right now only at our Moddb page! (And here's a link directly to the image.)
EDIT: I can't believe I didn't add a thumbnail for this!
I just recently finished another Dean Koontz book. This one was Life Expectancy, a thrilling story about a man named James Tock who was born with 5 terrible days predicted to his future. I purchased the hardback copy when the book came out, read halfway through the book and something in real life must've hit me, because I had to stop reading it. But I just picked it up again about 2 days ago and finished it.
It was definitely a good Dean Koontz book, very much so intense, keeping me going at every corner of the page. It had some minor predictability in some tiny events around the ending of the book, but other than that it really was an awesome book and I recommend picking it up if you're looking for something to read; I'll pretty much recommend anything that is written by Dean Koontz, his books are ub3r.
I, as well as the rest of the world are still waiting for the new Will Smith movie, I am Legend to release. If I had the spare cash, I would go out and buy the novel which shares the same title. The novel sounds better than the movie to some extent, but only digging deeper and watching the movie and reading the film could tell this. I advise you not to go to Wikipedia to get information on the book, or anywhere else unless you just plan on ruining the twist in the movie and the book for yourself.
But I think that's all for now! As I part I leave you with these moving pictures from YouTube to view!!
EDIT: I can't believe I didn't add a thumbnail for this!
I just recently finished another Dean Koontz book. This one was Life Expectancy, a thrilling story about a man named James Tock who was born with 5 terrible days predicted to his future. I purchased the hardback copy when the book came out, read halfway through the book and something in real life must've hit me, because I had to stop reading it. But I just picked it up again about 2 days ago and finished it.
It was definitely a good Dean Koontz book, very much so intense, keeping me going at every corner of the page. It had some minor predictability in some tiny events around the ending of the book, but other than that it really was an awesome book and I recommend picking it up if you're looking for something to read; I'll pretty much recommend anything that is written by Dean Koontz, his books are ub3r.
I, as well as the rest of the world are still waiting for the new Will Smith movie, I am Legend to release. If I had the spare cash, I would go out and buy the novel which shares the same title. The novel sounds better than the movie to some extent, but only digging deeper and watching the movie and reading the film could tell this. I advise you not to go to Wikipedia to get information on the book, or anywhere else unless you just plan on ruining the twist in the movie and the book for yourself.
But I think that's all for now! As I part I leave you with these moving pictures from YouTube to view!!
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