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Game Review: N.O.V.A. 2 HD

    Hey, everyone. I guess that if there's anything I truly love to do, it would have to be killing robots and aliens in defense of mankind. That's just what I'm all about. For this reason I love the new game I bought this past weekend. As you may have guessed from the title of the blog post, I'm talking about NOVA 2 for I-Pad.
    Being a bit of a tightwad, I researched the game before buying it. I read reviews on the app store and on blogs, I went to you-tube and watched video reviews etc. The game cost a whopping $6.99 and is a bargain at that price. Here's the recipe. Graphics that are near movie-quality and a fast paced shooter game that is tough to beat. In fact, for a geezer like me, it may be too tough to beat. I prefer things easy these days. These big
'mechs', that's robots, are bad to the bone. After getting my behindus kicked for a while I have to slink off to a corner and kill a few dinosaurs on Carnivore, which is the best game on planet earth. Then I feel sufficiently macho to return to the fray on NOVA.
    Speaking of easy being better, I recently downloaded the free version of a game called Terminator, Salvation. It's a take off on the movie with everybody's favorite Governor. It doesn't have the graphics, quite, of NOVA 2 but it's not so darn tough, either. For $4.99 it looks like a good game and I'm going to buy the full version this weekend. Hey, I'm still spending Christmas presents and I always spend more freely when the money was a gift.
     For those of you who are long-time readers of this blog, I thought I'd mention the fact that it appears that our mountain lions have dropped back around to their cave. We found some tracks at the creek today. Whether or not these tracks belong to the mountain lion that tried to eat the wife and I, I cannot say. Really, when you get right down to brass tacks, there are no vegetarian cougars, except in films. Feel free to check out the tags to your right for posts about mountain lions.
     Over the next few days I should be able to give y'all a review of my new Apple TV. Until then, I'm CE Wills, from the author's green retreat.
    
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