A Gaming Diary
Archive for March, 2006
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
Mar 13th
I played some more of the single player game and I love it. It’s just so tense and just feels so right. Everything just seems to come together. So good. Finished off ‘Radey For Bear’, which was a tough one and then did the next mission which was probably the easiest yet, but no less fun.
Then I played a Team Elimination game with randoms and got killed. A lot. Oh well, it was my first game. And I did get one kill, which saved my pride, three seconds from the end of the match.
The only annoying thing is that I can’t seem to change my location anywhere and the game thinks I’m in the USA.
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
Mar 12th
Single player is really hard. I spent about an hour getting a few checkpoints through one mission. It’s really not bad hard, though. It’s good, challenging hard. It’s great.
As is playing co-op over the Internet. I’ve done a few random elimination rounds with Ade now and this evening we tried the first mission of the co-op campaign. We didn’t manage it. Well, we did in the end, but only after I’d given us infinite lives. We really need to do it properly some time, though.
Generation of Chaos
Mar 12th
Big complicated PSP strategy game with no tutorial and an awful font.
I’ve been through two turns. Thr first turn I bought a sword, but didn’t do anything else. The second turn I managed to move some units and send another off on a search, or something, which is different.
I really don’t have a clue what’s going on.
There are cut scenes, soon, where lots of people talk to each other about nothing. Using a horrible font.
I need to read the manual. Then maybe some reviews.
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Mar 12th
Hooray!
After picking 250,00 bells worth of fruit and catching 15,000 bells worth of fish I’ve now paid off my current mortgage. House upgrade here we come!
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
Mar 11th
Traded in some games for it.
It is, as many people have been saying, technically the best looking game on any system ever.
It also plays well. Six hour session after first turning on well.
It’s bloody hard, though. I’ve just finished a mission called “Mayday! Mayday!” and it took me hours.
Haven’t even tried the multiplayer yet.
Crystal Quest
Mar 10th
Horribly addictive.
I’ve now beaten my own high score and, more importantly, retaken the lead on my Friends Leaderboard, with a cool 23,400,000.
Star Wars: Battlefront 2
Mar 10th
So, I was looking for games to trade in at Game tomorrow and came across Battlefront 2, which I’d got for Christmas and not played.
I’d put it on my Amazon wishlist because the online game sounded good, back when I had more faith in the 360′s backwards compatibility. Now I can only play it single player, but I thought I’d give it a go.
Just did training. Seemed pretty good, actually. A bit messy, not the best camera in the world and like all Xbox games (except OutRun 2) it looks rubbish on my TV, but it seems like a solid third-person shooter. And it’s got Star Wars graphics and noises, which is a good thing.
And I got to pay as Mace Windu and chop up droids with a lightsaber, which isn’t something I’m going to complain about.
