What we’re playing this weekend (26-27 March)

James Etherington-Smith

This weekend I’ll be trying out Darkest Hour: A Hearts of Iron Game. It’s touted as a real-time grand strategy in which players will take control of and manage any of the large number of historical nation states during the 1914 – 1964 timeframe. The game is highly modifiable and has been designed to enable easy porting of mods from previous game in the series. Other than that, I’ll probably be doing my best Stabby McStabbing impersonation in Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood for the PC.

Tarryn van der Byl

Crysis 2. That’s assuming it actually arrives. According to the parcel tracking information (I prefer to think of it as an orbital laser-designated homing beacon, because I like to pretend my bland, suburban life is just a clever front for my secret alternate identity as an intergalactic mercenary spy), it’s already been handed over to the courier for delivery, but has not yet managed to turn up. I’m blaming solar radiation interference, and/or a Venusian plot. Or maybe just traffic.

Dan Parmenter

Listen, Crysis 2, you’d better not disappoint me this weekend. I’ve waited a heck of a long time to see if Crytek actually payed attention to consumer feedback and at least attempted to make you into a game that’s not just a glorified tech demo.

Should you choose to be rubbish though I’ll have no qualms about getting into Bulletstorm or Homefront’s multiplayer instead. You have been warned.

Chris Kemp

Despite a somewhat mixed reception, a friend of mine can’t stop talking about the towering pillar of awesome that is Dragon Age 2 (or so he describes it). He is however allflicted by a nauseating case of Bioware fanboi-ism, so this has to be taken with a few large tractors of salt. Nonetheless, based on this 1-man review, I’ll be spending the less social parts of my weekend testing the merits of his recommendation (at least it’ll shut him up). I expect this to take up almost all of my weekend, but if DA2 disappoints me, I’ll have a date lined up with my most recent addiction, and I’m almost ashamed to say this, of Magic: The Gathering Online.

Nic Simmonds

I have a cold, which is a perfectly good excuse to spend the entire weekend indoors playing games right? Speaking of which, I’ll be getting firmly stuck into Crysis 2 this weekend. Unlike Tarryn, however, I will be playing it on PC (yea, I went there). I hear the single player is unusually long for an FPS, so that’ll be my first port of call, but I’m also dying to put a few hours into the multiplayer side of things. MAXIMUM STEALTH!