The gaming thread!!!

Originally Posted by Giorgos

How is football manager can someone say to me?...

Pretty much the standard affair imo, which certainly isn't a bad thing. Personally, though I still love it I don't have the same passion to play the game that I did when I was younger. The one real issue I've found with more recent versions of the game is that results often feel random. I've tested this out actually, played a match where I put out a team and lost, then I'd close the game, restart, put out the same team, subs, system and team talk and win comfortably (I never continued with this game and started a new one before being called a cheat ). For me in the modern FM games too many factors feel random, not just results, but the morale system of the players for example, the scouting reports (during the two tests matches from before I got two completely different scouting reports from Desailly) and numerous other factors.

I've played Stranglehold and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune of late. Stranglehold impressed in that it was a great deal of fun to play. The action is extremely well styled and the player does feel he's in a John Woo film.

Uncharted is probably the best game I've played on PS3 yet. The game's stunning, beautiful to look at, engaging and entertaining. The gameplay is fairly traditional in most respects, but extrememly polished. Attention to detail seems to be the key factor of the game that makes it so good. Graphically, elements such as the way Drake's clothes soak and stick when wet and dry gradually is what makes the game look so incredible, whilst in the gameplay the enemy AI uses flanking methods to try and stop Drake, which makes the experience all the more special compared to a standard shooter. Finally, this shouldn't be compared to Tomb Raider as so many people seemed to have tried to do. This game is about action, fast paced Hollywood blockbuster style action.