I am a weak, weak man...

But a weak, weak man with a PS2! :)

I finally got myself a credit card and, well, one thing led to another and I went into Dick Smith's and came out with a PS2, an EyeToy and the Buzz! game. It was an extravangance, but as I was going to lay-by it anyway I just figured I might as well put the lay-by payments on my credit card and play with the thing right now.

The Buzz! game is much fun. It comes with these paddle thingies with coloured buttons and depending on the stlye of the round you either pick the colour that corresponds to the answer you want to give or use the big red button to buzz in quickly. I think there's a lot of party potential in this one, and also in the EyeToy.

The EyeToy is very groovy. It's a USB camera that attaches ot the PS2 and then you turn up on the screen and play the game by moving around, jumping up and down and generally acting like a 'nana.

I also picked up 24: The Game and it rocks! The gameplay is pretty standard 3rd-person shoot-em-up with stealthy bits and some sniping, but there's also bomb defusal, interrogation and code-cracking to do. And you can "restrain" people. If civilians are running around, getting in your way, you can call out "Federal Agent!", or words to that effect and then they crouch on the ground and you handcuff them (personally, I think that Tony likes handcuffing the girl civilians a little too much). As for arresting baddies, you have to wound them or possibly get one who's a girly-man and you also yell out "CTU! Put down your weapon!" (or whatever) and they put their hands up. Then you handcuff them. Of course, if you press the wrong button, you don't handcuff them but rather break their neck with an accompanying evil sound. Very cool. :)

The game itself is basically an episode of the TV series where you play the characters. It was written by one of the show's writers and most of the cast voice the characters in the game. There's even the wonky camera and collage-like aspect to some of the cut-scenes that you see in the bits between scenes in the series. Oh, and Kim Bauer is about as useful in the game as she is in the series (ie; not in the least).