Artsygamer

While the concept of variety certainly does attract me the mention of the romance and contrast to the dark first game (which btw i don’t think was dark at all) brings to mind the second star wars movie in the new trilogy which I think i was very dissapointed with and just made me put my last hopes in for the 3rd.

I’m partial to car games in the sense that I’m quite not not enjoying them. Maybe it’s the fact that I never wanted to have a car and never got the excitement… so it happens that though i have tried several and indeed respect a lot the production values of many of them and could totally see why somebody would enjoy them very much I can only think of a couple that are closer to my heart (Carmageddon, I76, Burnout…), and they tend to be of the non-realistic type… this is about one of them:

Interstate 76 totally captured me with it’s story and most importantly it’s atmosphere. From radio chatter to vigilante attitudes & histories, and last but certainly not least: it’s groovy funky music… which is why I actually started writign this post and remembered I76:  apparently there’s still a website/community surviving for this game, and that’s where I found a full downloadable mp3 soundtrack how cool is that?

http://www.interstate76.com/download/i76audio.htm

As for the game: if you can endure it’s super low polygon graphics (which you might say adds a very interesting style) and you are curious about a vigilante car game where a group of car enthusiasts do their own police-ing… give it a try. I remember when i was playing it I was impressed with the mission variety, from shooting out your window to mounting stuff in the garage & missions ranging from hunting to running away and everything in between… but yes, that was like more than 10 years ago, so think by those standards. Either way, worth mentioning the music which doesn’t age like that. (btw, I hope slowly games will slow their rapid aging process… though since even photoperfect movies do I doubt it will ever stop…)

PS: i kept searching for the install mp3 (i remember I saved it for years after playing it), it’s a fun mix with switching radio stations until it i think settles on the song that starts around minute 1 on this youtube clip

[comments after reading this Kotaku article: http://kotaku.com/5396934/new-30-seconds-to-mars-single-debuts-in-dragon-age ]

I have huge love for this band… but like with many TV series… it’s the first album(s) that have it… and this new stuffs seems (to me) to have lost the magic that made them rise, which kinda makes sense… when you’re unknown it’s easier to be “tormented” enough to create stuff like they did… BUT one thing i do recall always listening to their music is my respect for them having lyrics that really spark my imagination, stuff that I often wondered how come they dared write about, when it’s much more mass-market to write about love/relationship stuff… and yet they did write these songs which to me sounded like lyrics for some sci fi novel soundtrack or something… anways, back on topic: maybe i didn’t drift off topic that far because it seems they (or others?) have too realized this and mixed a song with a game… as for it’s newness: hurrayyy for games!!!!! It says something that a big band like that would debut a song on a game.