Thanks to lovely, lovely Steam I have just downloaded and played demos of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Bioshock.

ET:QW looks simply gorgeous on my new card and I can only imagine how much better it would be under DX10. It took me a little while to get into it though and is very much a Quake co-operative death match type of game rather than a facelift of the much loved (well, by me, anyway) Wolfenstein – Enemy Territory. Don’t get me wrong. It isn’t that I hate it, it just isn’t totally what I expected.

Bioshock was another surprise. I was expecting a poop-’em-up in much the same vein as F.E.A.R was and started the game expecting to be scared out of my mind. What I got instead was an introduction on the scale of TV’s Lost and a totally absorbing and purely gorgeous experience. The little touches in this game such as context sensitive help and minimalist HUD coupled with the effects when you activate the Incendiary plasmid, which is reminiscent of the nuclear power in TV’s Heroes, all combine to make this a truly wonderful experience. And that was just on the demo! Cannot wait to get the full game.