What I'm Playing: Zelda, 24

I'm still chest deep in Zelda: Twilight Princess. I played quite a few hours this weekend continuing on from the Master Sword Get up to beginning what I think is the final set of quests (spoiler: it has something to do with learning who the final boss is. I wonder who!). I think this Zelda has been the one to really take things seriously. Of course there are still the fun Zelda-type things; the mailman, the Charlie-brown-esque voice overs, the sounds when you pick up something, etc. But the plot twists, the story, the music, and even the anti-Tingle character Midna are so much darker and adult.

Another game I've dug out of the collection and dusted off was 24: The Game. The best way to describe this game was a quote I found trying to look up a feature of the game online: "The best fun you'll ever have playing a bad game." It's so true. The graphics suck (besides the face mapping), the driving missions are pretty much like playing SNES Mario Kart, and the fantastic aiming system lacks any sort wound mapping (i.e. shoot a leg, drop a guy). But I keep playing it because it feels so much like the t.v. show. You get to play everyone in the show and that includes the geek back at CTU that has to unscramble a PDA before it fries itself. It's a $10 bargin bin steal. I don't regret buying it with the exception that it wasn't the type of game Nicole (the bigger 24 fan of the two of us) was into.

I'm still pondering Crackdown. It's not that I don't think it's a good enough game to buy, but I just like what's on my plate right now and don't want to spoil it. It's a GTA of a time killer, so you have to be careful with those.