14 DAY TRIAL // Andrei Dumitrescu: I am unable to escape the grim that Fallout: New Vegas has on me and so I will keep playing my two characters for the weekend, squeezing as much gaming in as possible around household chores and my rapidly diminishing social life.
Last week I was talking about the choice of what kind of character I would play and I settled on two combinations.
My main at the moment is a goody two shoes which has 8 points in both intelligence and in charisma but has issues with his strength and his endurance and I have taken him all the way to the Strip, currently working on pacifying the Wasteland and on getting some body armor that lacks spikes (although I very much like the Vault 21 clothes the good doctor gave me).
My second character is quite powerful and agile, preferring to use close quarter weapons when facing human enemies, and also has quite a bit of charisma, allowing him to sweet talk his way out of some tricky situations.
So far the world of New Vegas is a bit more sparse than the one of Fallout 3 and I haven't found anything as weird and exciting as Dave's Republic or the Necropolis.
Andrei Dobra: This weekend I'll be pretty much split between two very different games.
On one hand Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2, which so far is looking extremely good.
LucasArts definitely improved on the structure and mechanics of the original Force Unleashed and Starkiller is much more powerful this time around.
Hopefully the story will be able to match up to the one in the first game, but this time with a much better conclusion.
On the other hand, Fallout: New Vegas is also awaiting me, as I've almost spent 30 hours with the game and I'm still in the first third of the game.
I might finally decide to pursue the main quest line, but I still have quite a lot of side quests that need completing and lots of other locations that need to be discovered, explored and, of course, looted.