14 DAY TRIAL // Andrei Dumitrescu: I spent my last weekend recovering a little bit after covering the E3 2011 event for Softpedia which means that only now do I have a full two days to get acquainted with the newest releases and play as much as I can.
Dungeon Siege III is on my gaming radar because it was created by one of the developers that I love, Obsidian, and I plan to get as far in it as possible and see how they can deal with a fantasy universe that is a little light on story and heavy on the combat.
The company has a very uneven track record and I plan to find out whether they have delivered a flawed gem or a highly polished mediocre title.
And when fantasy and combat are too much for me, I will retreat to one of my loves, the Paradox Interactive-made history-based strategy game, with Pride of Nations, their latest release, which uses a different game system from Victoria II and might prove to be interesting.
Andrei Dobra: Even if summer usually means a drought in terms of video games, I'm still pretty much swamped, as after finishing L.A. Noire I'm now knee deep in Duke Nukem Forever and Red Faction: Armageddon, while other titles like Dungeon Siege III, The Witcher 2 or Hunted: The Demon's Forge are on the backburner.
First up, I want to see my playthrough of Duke Nukem Forever to completion, even if the game isn't all that impressive.
The extremely long development cycle didn't benefit the game, as it still feels, from a gameplay and graphics standpoint like it should've been released in the early 2000s, not right now.
While I won't be defeating enemies and chewing gum, I'll be taking a hammer to Red Faction: Armageddon, the next installment in THQ and Volition's destruction-based third-person shooter.
I was impressed with the opening portions of Armageddon, so I'm keen on going through the rest of the story and seeing what it holds for the protagonist, Darius Mason.