I was impressed with Shadowrun, other than what I’ve heard from blogs and podcasts this was the first real concrete information I’d seen and it definitely clarified a few points for me.  The things I’d heard were that it’s complexity might prove to be a barrier for people who just want to jump in and start playing and in my experience this definitely wasn’t the case.  Other than a brief run of the first tutorial and some on-the-fly coaching from Chris I was pretty much running and gunning right away, sure it’ll take a while to master the finer points of tech and magic but if you’re a fan of the FPS genre then you’ll feel at home immediately as it handles exactly how it ought to and I was very quickly “in the zone”, ignoring everything around me and trying to get some decent headshots.

Project Sylpheed is essentially a 3D space shooter / flight sim and handles pretty well, I didn’t get to see a great deal of the mission structure so I can’t comment on the overall arc of the game but it was certainly put together well and once I’d inverted my flight controls (up vs down) I was flying quite easily.  As I said, I didn’t really get far enough into the game to know but I’d love to see a more in-depth and interactive mission structure as opposed to the “enter arena and kill ‘em all” style of mission that most console flight sims have had recently.

I was also reasonably impressed with Forza 2, I wasn’t really a fan of the original and hated it within about 15 seconds of playing the game so I was pleasantly surprised when after 15 minutes of playing the sequel I was still enjoying myself.  I’d still need to spend a little more time with the demo in order to be sure of it’s purchase value but that has more to do with my fussiness about control methods and handling than it does with the game itself.

Anyway, that’s about all the info I can regurgitate before I fall asleep and I have a flight tomorrow so I’d better get some shut-eye.  Catch y’all later (well I am in America after all).

Well, now the host of the show Chris Paladino has secured a job working for Microsoft’s gaming community site Gamerscore Blog working in the community – a dream come true more-or-less. The rest of the crew have created a new podcasting network Gamercast Network to bring together a range of independent gaming podcasts, this could be good for gamers in general so watch this space.

As for DreamStation.cc, they’re continuing to podcast and will grow into their own style once more, I will definitely keep on listening and using the forums, if you’ve never tried I reccommend you have a look.