In my house, we do not watch TV. We seldom watch movies. No- our big vice is video games.
I am NOT as big a video game player as Topher, and Topher isn’t nearly as big a game player as our son is. Our son could play video games until he starved himself. Topher will pause long enough to make a sandwhich. I will pause long enough to actually cook something. Even chicken if it’s pre-thawed.
Between the two houses, my son has his pick of consoles and games. At his father’s house, he has an NES, a PS2, and a GameCube. At my house, our child has access to an Atari 2600, an XBox, and a Wii. I don’t think any other child has ever been as spoild in video games as ours.
For Christmas, my son received a copy of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance for the wii. I have to admit, it made me nervous. I really enjoy a good superhero ,and I hate it when a game will try to make a storyline fit where it shouldn’t. So we recently cracked open the game.
I’m in love.
The characters all have their attitudes… nothing is forced; all of it just IS and it is wonderful. Spiderman is as corney as he should be, Wolverine as dark, and Deadpool is, well, um, weird.The storyline and animation are sell done, the controlls ar easy to use…
But as I was playing, there was a sense of familliarity over them… something about the jabbing attacks, the characters, the 3D yet still linear game play. The straightforward buy not storyline…. they all combined to make something that was “Newly Nostalgic” which is not only the best description I can come up with, but also the name of my next perfume line.
