Infected Review [PSP]

[bapenguin]

IGN (http://www.ign.com) has their review up (http://psp.ign.com/articles/666/666660p1.html) for Planet Moon's first PSP title: Infected.

It's a simple idea, with simple controls tied easily to the PSP's gamepad. Infected is a game that takes just seconds to pick up and play, but far from a lifetime to master. Outside of the two always-armed guns (one your Viral Gun for splatting creatures, the other your choice of firearm or explosive), there's a button for sprinting and a button for a 180-degree quick-turn. The rest of the gamepad is your map and gun choice, and that's it. The layout is efficient -- games have surely been less fun with twice as many controller inputs. No camera problems, and no need to curse the PSP's lack of a second analog pad. Still, there's not a lot of room for technique in the game control. It can take a heck of a lot of skill in a two-player bout just to keep matches from being a see-saw trade-off on the health bar (and even when you do play skillfully, you'll feel like a wuss for avoiding so many firefights), and single player feels like the same few match types over and over again.
Pretty decent score, this game looks like tons of fun. And lets not forget you can select fitbabits has a hidden character named Evil Avatar!

[fitbabits]

Seems like Planet Moon and Majesco have scored big with this... Now all we need is for people to buy the damn thing.

[KamaItachi]

So is it better to be fitabits or better to kill fitabits?

[fitbabits]

So is it better to be fitabits or better to kill fitabits?
The following may help you decide:

I love you to lumps, but my name is fitBabits. Dinnae forget the first b.

Mind made up? :D

[KamaItachi]

The following may help you decide:

I love you to lumps, but my name is fitBabits. Dinnae forget the first b.

Mind made up? :D


Not only do I now want to be you, but I also want to make love to myself as you and have lots of wee bairns.

[fitbabits]

Not only do I now want to be you, but I also want to make love to myself as you and have lots of wee bairns.
Excellent! :)

[m0nk3yb0y]

So do you get a free copy of the game fit?

[KarmaGhost]

Wait, you play as fitbabits, but the name of the character is Evil Avatar? How'd that happen?

Also, I must admit, up until just now, I too was guilty of (in my head) pronouncing your name as "fit-a-bits." Ooops. :p

[TrackZero]

Wait, you play as fitbabits, but the name of the character is Evil Avatar? How'd that happen?

Also, I must admit, up until just now, I too was guilty of (in my head) pronouncing your name as "fit-a-bits." Ooops. :p

Ditto on the name pronounciation. I also used to say "bap-penguin". ;)

Looks like it got a pretty good rating and since Majesco put up such a good contest for us here, I'll go pick this up sometime this week.

[Steve_Erhardt]

I'm torn between this and Armored Core. Of course, the lack of anything in my wallet pretty much precludes either one right now... =(

[Magnanimous Gnome]

Glad to see Planet Moon is still around - I had no idea those guys were still out there. Good for them. :)

[DoubleUranium]

Infected, Socom, or Armored Core? Arg.

[MosBen]

Ditto on "fitabits" in my head. And it's been there so long it's going to take forever to correct myself.

[51|RandoM]

Not only do I now want to be you, but I also want to make love to myself as you and have lots of wee bairns.

och, aye ken what ya mean.

[kickmybum]

Fit? Babits? How weird.

[Magnanimous Gnome]

Fitbabits is in my head a lot too, but for different reasons... ;)


Well, after typing that I realized that it could have a MUCH dirtier meaning than even I intended. Oh well, I'm posting it anyway. Censoring is for Republicans...

[KamaItachi]

I misread it twice, first was Fitabits, then I thought it was fitba b tits as in, "My opinion of football is that it is a thoroughly enjoyable spectacle/sporting activity." Like some sort of Gangsta rapper from Glawsow.













dirty 'wegie bastards

[The Iron Weasel]

Those bastards called slipknot a freak show....well I guess thats pretty fitting.

[fitbabits]

For anyone interested:

fitbabits: fitba (football) + bits (boots or cleats) = fitbabits (football boots, which is what we Scots call soccer cleats).

[fitbabits]

I misread it twice, first was Fitabits, then I thought it was fitba b tits as in, "My opinion of football is that it is a thoroughly enjoyable spectacle/sporting activity." Like some sort of Gangsta rapper from Glawsow.

dirty 'wegie bastards
You appear to be rather well versed in Glesgae slang - care to enlighten me? :)

[KamaItachi]

Not much to say. Family is originally from Scotland, but I was born in N Ireland, where the ties are still pretty strong. A lot of my friends and family are from the Edinburgh area so the only thing countering their bias against all they schemie fucks is my love for Rab C. Nesbitt.



Beat it!

[fitbabits]

Not much to say. Family is originally from Scotland, but I was born in N Ireland, where the ties are still pretty strong. A lot of my friends and family are from the Edinburgh area so the only thing countering their bias against all they schemie fucks is my love for Rab C. Nesbitt.



Beat it!
Small world, I guess.

I know you've probably covered this on here before, but how come you're in Japan now?

Rab C. Nesbitt: [to the audience] What a business, all because I take a wee drink, eh... Tell yae wan thing - see all this shoutin? It doesnae half give yae a helluva thirst.
Stranger: [handing Rab a bottle of booze from off screen] That's the game, pal, you tell them. There's nuthin the matter wie a wee drink.
Rab C. Nesbitt: [pleased] Oh... Who the hell are you by the way?
Stranger: Ah c'mon, Rab. Use your imagination
[the camera away cuts to the stranger who is revealed to be a pink elephant in a suit and cap]
Stranger: I'm the Heebie Jeebie.
[the pink elephant starts shaking its head and making funny noises at Rab]
Rab C. Nesbitt: [spitting out the drink and screaming in fear] Heebie Jeebie!
Classic.

[KamaItachi]

Small world, I guess.

I know you've probably covered this on here before, but how come you're in Japan now?

I fell for one of those Teach english in Japan! The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure! What other chances will you have of smashing your fists against a wall of entrenched xenophobia built up from confucionist thinking and corrupt, blinkered officials interested in the status quo, desperately trying to avoid noticing the large cannon with "hubris" etched on it in large letters schemes.

It was an okay gig, but hings have changed now, and the Japanese have found out that they can't just let any old idiot walk in off the street and get a job. Now anything decent for non-natives have to be supported by qualifications which I can't get here. Coupled with my present office having busted me back down to teaching thanks to budget cuts means I'll not be staying much longer.


Classic.

Fantastic comedy, but I felt the series didn't do as much for me after they got rid of the guy who played Burney. I hear it's just been re-issued on dvd so I may pick up the first 2 series.

Get tae, swine that ye are!