XIII

It’s very rare to see a video game review in weblogs these days, especially on mine; because I’m not a gamer. But my young brother revceived an XBox for XMas (see the link?) and he bought the game XIII recently. The game is based on the popular comic book serie which goes by the same name.

The game is really, really great. It reminds me of the Goldeneye game on Nintendo 64. The single mode is very complete and the multi-player mode (splitscreen) is very interesting, with 6 or 7 play modes.

But where the game is better than other FPS games, is in the single mode; and especially, the story. The story captivated me like no other ones did in a video game. You are Steve Roland, the number XIII in the XX Clan. You can’t remember anything else. You’ll have to find who are the other numbers in the conspiration. And I can’t even tell you how the game ends, simply because I didn’t get the to end yet. Really good game, go buy it or rent it immediately.

OK. Now I’m off to prepare myself for tonight’s Super Bowl XXXIX. Lot of X’es in this post, right?

There are 8 comments yet. Don't be shy.

1. On February 6th, 2005 at 2:30 pm, mireille said :mireille's gravatar

Tell me when you get to the end! Maybe that way we, book-readers-and-not-gamers, will finally have a clue who XIII really is… 16 albums and nothing yet.

2. On February 6th, 2005 at 3:43 pm, Remi said :Remi's gravatar

I don’t think that the game will reveal things that the book didn’t reveal yet ;-)

3. On February 6th, 2005 at 4:42 pm, mireille said :mireille's gravatar

But clues, Remi, clues! Haven’t you read Harry Potter? ;)

4. On February 7th, 2005 at 11:46 am, septor said :septor's gravatar

I count 12 X’s in that post. I think that’s a new internet first.

5. On February 7th, 2005 at 2:30 pm, Guillaume said :Guillaume's gravatar

World of warcraft is better :D

6. On February 7th, 2005 at 3:15 pm, Remi said :Remi's gravatar

Man, you can’t play to WoW on Xbox…

7. On February 7th, 2005 at 6:29 pm, septor said :septor's gravatar

* > Pay for play.

8. On February 8th, 2005 at 11:59 am, Remi said :Remi's gravatar

Haha… love that geek way to say things Pat. :P Everything’s better than pay4play games, I agree.

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