Some other miscellaneous little bits that I only spent a little time on and aren’t worth their own article:

My copy of Fable 2 should arrive on Monday. Amazon.ca actually managed to ship a preorder on time for once, so maybe they’re not completely hopeless after all. Hopefully they’ll keep it up when they ship Fallout 3 next week, too. Normally I wouldn’t bother with preorders, but I wanted to make sure I got the collector’s editions of these two.

The STCC (Swedish Touring Car Championship) game popped up on my Steam list unexpectedly. I’d forgotten that they were going to give it for free to people who’d preordered GTR Evolution because of some pricing mixup. The tracks in it look rather average, but it’s still nice to have some more, and there’s a few new car types too, including a Camaro cup. I just wish I had more time to practice, or I’ll never really get any good at these driving sims.

The PC version of Bully: Scholarship Edition suddenly arrived on Steam as well (its existence was only rumoured), and I figured I may as well give it a try. I never even got around to starting the PS2 version, and this edition adds a handful of new stuff. Setting up the controls is a bit awkward, though: you can’t use the keyboard/mouse and 360 controller simultaneously, switching between them is unintuitive, there’s no mouse control in menus, and there are some weird choices in the default controls like an insanely sluggish camera and using Left-Alt for the yes/confirm key. Otherwise though, the controls should work just like the 360 version, and it looks okay, aside from the occasional low-res texture and blocky model. It’ll have to wait until I’m finished the GTAs before I actually start it though.

I tried the Motorstorm: Pacific Rift demo, but it didn’t really impress me that much. It’s okay, but I’ve still got other games to play for that kind of fast, crazy racing action (Flatout, Burnout Paradise, potentially Midnight Club LA).

And oh dear, there are still plenty of promising games to come. I’m still tempted by Far Cry 2, Saints Row 2, Dead Space, X3: Terran Conflict, Guitar Hero: World Tour…