WotR #78 - Wide awake and screaming

Cooper's Place
Maibock's got some catching up to do

Gary Whelan
TT and Gary share a cocktail

Real World Physics.
F0zz argues the case 'for'

World of Warcraft.
Siamese grows a beard

This Gaming Life
Mayhem lays it on the line

Defcon
Aureole & Bog nuke the site from orbit

Test Drive Unlimited
Cruisin' down the highway with Ely

Just Cause
"'cause throwing yourself out of a real aeroplane hurts" rejoins Fuseball

Dead Rising
Smaggers says it with hot chip oil

P.N.03
moobaa takes a language lesson

Gran Turismo 3
We go riding in Deggy's car

The Dave Perry Appreciation Society
Respec' - Rodent style

Image of the Month
How not to target the girl gamer

KidCasio
"The Arctic Monkeys are just like a rough Yorkshire version of George Formby. I can't listen to any of their tracks without imagining the next line to be 'when I'm cleanin' winders'."

Russ
"I've got the F.E.A.R demo on my PC. I've stopped playing it because whenever you walk over a dead person not only does the dead person twitch in a particularly idiotic manner, it also sounds like you've just kicked a fat lad in a duffel coat."

Deggy [On games verus reality]
"The fact is, if I really wanted, I could rob cars and punch people in the face a la GTA, I could snipe people from six miles away a la Half Life 2 and I could drive a Lamborghini down the Hawaiian freeway and wrap it round a palm tree a la Test Drive Unlimited but I could never, ever, be a fucking monkey in a fucking ball. This is why I love games."

We proudly present Rodent's world famous bid to list the top 5 of everything in the world.

Koworld
Top 5 - DEFCONs

DEFCON 4

DEFCON 2

DEFCON 1

DEFCON 3

DEFCON 5

"Throw away your international career here! "

Complete set of back issues here

My god, it's full of stars...
Well, it seems that the summer drought is over (in more ways than one if the weather outside Rodent towers is anything to go by) and the next-gen is kicking off in anger if this month's 360 releases are any indication. We have three games for the noisy grey box all vying for that coveted four-star rating (and we didn't even bother with Prey which is also ace in a slighty seen-it-all-before kind of way). Which ones get the nod, and deserve your hard-won cash? Well, I'm not going to tell you here, go and read the reviews and find out.

Needless to say, we've argued the toss about every shiny little star this month, we always do. We know that games are expensive, not only in pure monetary terms but in the investment of your valuable gaming time and we absolutely will not waste your time by recommending games that we don't feel passionately about.

We also have news of our very own Gary Whelan's latest adventures with the mighty Galaxians - what on earth has he got up to this time? Read on and find out... Elsewhere, Maibock discovers that a horse can change it's spots, while Siamese finds solace in a razor blade and F0zz serves up the counter-argument to what we are optimistically calling the 'Great Physics Debate'.

Anyway, hope that this issue of the Original Spirit finds you well. Tune in next month for our Armaggeddon special, as inspired by this month's featured game - Defcon. Read the review for more on that one...

Ahchay, Editor - October 2006

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