Just Cause 2 is a ton of fun. An extremely pretty game with some over the top, awful, cheesy voice acting and amazing stunts and explosions. I would write more but I'm too lazy.
What else have I been playing... ah yes, a small game called Tag. I believe this game was created by about 4 or 5 students studying Game Design at Digipen. It's a puzzle game, your main "weapon" is a gun that shoots out paint. There are three types of paint, that you are slowly introduced to throughout the 6 or 7 levels in the game. Green paint makes you jump really high, red paint makes you go really fast if you walk on it, and blue paint lets you stick to the surface you've sprayed it on. Simple, yet fun game mechanic, and the game did leave me scratching my head a few times, trying to figure out how to solve a certain puzzle.
It's very basic in terms of visuals, as you'd expect coming from a few students at a university but it stll does a good job. It's all pretty much cell shaded with distinguishable outlines on everything. The world is also pretty much black and white, and different shades of grey, but your paint manages to bring colour into the world.
What's really interesting is that supposedly some of the students who made this were hired by Valve to work on Portal 2. Similar to how the students at this same university were hired by Valve a few years ago for creating Narbacular Drop, the game that was pretty much transformed into the first Portal.
So anyway, quite a fun game, should only take about 10 to 20 minutes of your time. I know no one reads this but you can download it here: https://www.digipen.edu/news/itagi-wins-best-student-game-award-at-igf/page-1/
And also read about how they got an award for it. Good for them, they most certainly deserved it.
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