Let's talk about games a bit. Man, I am having a ball with the 99 center called Asphalt 7: Heat. If, for some reason, you don't have this title, go get it. It is fun. I love the new cities, and the old ones, for that matter. I raced in Los Angeles last night and it was mega-cool. We were neck and neck, with cars bumping each other, wrecking each other and exchanging the lead every few seconds. Then we plunge off an overpass and we're down in an open aqueduct, like the scene in The Terminator 2, where the Governator is saving the kid, you know? In Asphalt 6, there was no water in the big, paved canal. In Asphalt 7 you are in and out of the water, music pounding, your spotter (really nice voice on that lady) squealing in alarm and calling you "cheeky". Man, I like this game! You know, this game is a blast without the in-app stuff and I'd like to thank Gameloft for a good time. I was blazing through Shanghai, I think it was, in a Lamborghini, and it was so intense that my hair started to stand up. For an old guy to get this excited over anything is indicative of major coolness. If you play, just keep buying upgrades, especially for the cars' handling, because what good does all that road-blistering speed do if you can't keep it between the lines? Also, I have finally mastered the skill of drifting, which puts me in line for a gig with the next Fast and Furious flick. Ha, ha. If you are like my wife and routinely turn your sound down during gaming, don't do it on this game.
Speaking of Carley, the high priestess of puzzle gamers, she has yet another favorite game. To me, it looks as exciting as watching paint dry, but if she's happy, I'm happy. The name of her game is Flow. Get a load of the menu for this thriller. You have a square board (rectangle?) and you have dots of varying colors on the matrix. You must connect the yellow dot to the other yellow dot, red to red, etc. by drawing lines. Sound easy? Well, you can't have any line crossing any other line, which is the fly in the ointment. Carley has played 140 levels, for Pete's sake, and as she was running out of the free version, she bought a bunch more for 99 cents. Actually, I just tease her about the puzzles and I slip into the basement and play puzzles at night by flashlight, lest I lose my shooter card.
Speaking of shooters, I bought a 99 center which is of the dual stick variety, like Mini-Gore and many others. It is a zombie shooter called Left2Die. Not a cheerful title. Ha, ha. In this game you rack up cash by performing missions or survival mode. Then you upgrade weapons and stuff. There are in-game health packs to pick up, ammo that falls from dead zombies pockets and chunks of cash. Why do zombies need money, anyway? But I digress. There is an on-line multiplayer, with deathmatch, which is probably fun. Sometimes I hate being so distrustful of on-line stuff, but I am a product of my age, I suppose, and as Dan Fogelberg was wont to say, "I go my lone and solitary way". Whatever.
This zombie shooter is an okay game. Don't buy it, expecting it to be Nova 3, because it is not, okay? But neither is it $6.99, which eases your pain. It is a fun game, though.
Speaking of Nova 3. I am having a good time with this game. I am now way over into the epic struggle, having been on another 'sweet run'. I am battling evil Volterite scum inside a massive crater on a distant world and, if I can say it modestly, I am playing with great aplomb. Cool word, huh? I miss having my man Rufus on this section, for the simple reason that he is bad to the bone. The snipers and the red apes are a paino in the draino, however. Yet I will persevere, because the fate of mankind rests nonchalantly on my aged shoulders.
Speaking of burdened shoulders, let's talk about the tennis player from England, Andy Murray. Man, this guy has the hopes of a nation riding on his slender shoulders as he prepares to battle Roger Federer for the Wimbledon title. The last time that an Englishman has played in the final of his 'home' tourney was in 1938. Wow, that's a long dry spell, as we say in the South.
I was pulling for the Brit as he battled Ferrer, a Spaniard, for the simple reason that I'd like to see the tall, lanky home boy win one for his nation. That B.S. is what makes it so tough on the kid, though. Can you imagine? He'll have to zone out from all that and just play his game to beat the elegant Federer. Murray used his serve to win against Ferrer and you could see his confidence in that formidable weapon as the match progressed. Anyway, I'll pull for Andy for the simple reason that I like to see championships for different people. Roger certainly has his share, right? Besides, beating the world #1 in the semis has to feel like a trophy for the great champion.
I am reading an old, old book by the greatest western writer of all time, Zane Grey. It is titled Man of the Forest and is available for free on all the book stores. It is the story of a woodsman and tracker, which I identify with, in Arizona, in cowboy days. Milt Dale learns of a plot to kidnap a young woman and in order to prevent it, takes the girl into the forest to hide. It is long on nature descriptions and short on action, but is still a good one. Zane Grey's best books are Knights of the Range, Forlorn River, Nevada and Shadow on the Trail. You can grab all of them for free, I think. In this book I am reading, I was amused when the hero opined that a mountain lion would never attack a man unless it were cornered or starving. I know that this is B.S.
From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.
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