{"id":349,"date":"2007-07-30T00:29:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T16:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2007-07-30T00:29:34","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T16:29:34","slug":"too-many-games-too-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Too many games, too little time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with being a gamer and working on the rigs is that I have to be rather selective of the games I get to play, I do have a PSP out here but between the gym, reading, writing and watching movies I don&#8217;t get as much time on that as I could either. So for the most part, gaming is usually done on the XBOX360 at home. In the past I have purchased some real shockers (amongst which the new Transformers game is there somewhere &#8211; after playing it for a while I can safely say it&#8217;s not as fun as it could have been) I have decided on a list of up and coming games that are must plays.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grand Theft Auto IV<\/strong> &#8211; the new gritty and realistic GTA appears to have lost a lot of what was annoying in the past games and hugely improved the graphics.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xbox360media.ign.com\/xbox360\/image\/article\/791\/791511\/grand-theft-auto-iv-20070524093327573-000.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mass Effect<\/strong> &#8211; The most ambitious space RPG to date&#8230; how could I resist?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/masseffect.bioware.com\/_commonext\/images\/me\/desktops\/masseffect_desktop_03_640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fallout 3<\/strong> &#8211; Based on the engine from Elder Scrolls Oblivion (a game I totally loved) comes the latest Fallout title, having played all these when I was younger I am very keen to see what can be done with the franchise given such a vast 3D environment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gameguru.in\/images\/fallout-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Halo 3 &#8211; I haven&#8217;t really been into the whole Halo thing, never having owned an XBOX and getting my first taste receiving a copy of HALO 2 with my 360 which I quickly discarded for it&#8217;s last generation graphics and annoying controls. However the gf assures me that this series is joi and worthwhile playing.. \ud83d\ude1b <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gamez-vault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/halo-3-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with being a gamer and working on the rigs is that I have to be rather selective of the games I get to play, I do have a PSP out here but between the gym, reading, writing and watching movies I don&#8217;t get as much time on that as I could either. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.centaurtechnologies.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}