Wednesday is DROP DAY!
So, to use the parlance, Rez HD has dropped. The shiny people of XBox Live Arcade have let it appear and it now resides on my XBox 360 awaiting darkened room controller manipulation.
Rez is a strange game in the development of my video game joy, being a dividing line for various reasons. I returned to the gaming fold back in 2001 with my purchase of a Dreamcast, inspired by a New Year’s day beating a hangover by playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (May you all skate with Tony, kick-flip in peace and olly over the perils of life) on said console and realising that I did actually rather like computer games still. My game acquisition replaced my various other collecting habits and thanks to the wonder of “preowned” games appearing in both of my local game shops (now, sadly, but one after the closure of Skill2k) not as financially crippling as my other addictions. Then Rez appeared. It was an interesting game that appeared momentarily before the demise of the Dreamcast (damn you SCEI and your marketing of gaming to normal people rather than just elitist gamers. You’ve made gaming mainstream and successful, how dare you) and in the morass of cheap secondhand discs I totally missed it for a couple of years. Occasionally it would be mentioned in hushed tones and I saw it change hands on ebay for
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Posted: January 31st, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Comment from billyabbott
Time 31st January 2008 at 12:15 pm
It was at the Barbican – the link is the to Science Museum as the Barbican one has disappeared into the mists of time.
Comment from stagknight
Time 31st January 2008 at 1:02 pm
Is the PC version of Tempest 2000 not hardcore enough for you?
Comment from billyabbott
Time 31st January 2008 at 1:31 pm
I didn’t look for a PC version as I had a small obsession with consoles. I still don’t really any PC games (mainly because my study is full of crap and my pc is 7 years old…)
Comment from d_floorlandmine
Time 31st January 2008 at 1:37 pm
However, I grenaded half of them later at Halo, so I win.
[grin]
[applause]
Comment from boncey
Time 31st January 2008 at 12:06 pm
Was this Game On at the Science Museum or Barbican?
I don’t recall seeing Rez at all at the Science Museum, but having never even heard of it before now I may have just seen it and not taken it in.
Oh yeah, Tempest does indeed rock.