Blazkowicz Triple 200 (Blog)

I did manage to acquire Wolfenstein PC retail early last week, What is interesting is that Wolfenstein has not made an appearance on any digital distribution services. Now this is a huge oversight that will result in a huge loss of sales for the PC version. It's late 2009 and new games need to be available digitally on PC, Activision put Prototype on Steam and D2D so I'm really perplexed at the reasons behind Wolfenstein avoiding a digital release. I have to admit though the PR leading up to launch has been very poor so that may be related.

In any case I did manage to play though the campaign, which mixes some early open mission structure with some linear missions towards the end. You can spend extra time searching for treasure items, tomes or intel if you wish but the game lasted me about 9 hours on Hard and I'd probably had enough searching for gold by then.

The game started poorly for me, I didn't really like it at all to begin with. The good news is it started getting better when you get access to powers and better weapons (i.e. gets more sci-fi) and the end few levels were fairly good excluding the silly final boss. I found some time to put my opinions to word processor and posted the review for it here.

Some of you may already know by now, others may be surprised to learn that I did in fact pre-order a PS3 Slim which came with uncharted free. The price drop got me quite interested even though I've been looking at the 360 for some time. I made my decision a week back when looking through some of the games on the platform and it's capabilities / future. I should get the console in a few weeks depending on how limited the numbers are.

Games like wipeout, uncharted, gt5 appeal to me and I think there are lots of games on the PS3 that will never be seen on PC (thats how Sony is). I'm definitely not abandoning PC however, I plan to upgrade my PC by the end of this year and will be buying 99% of multiplatform titles on PC unless something strange happens. I figure at worst I need to experience some console action that so many other people are trying otherwise I can't really judge them. The last console I owned was the extreme nintendo 64.