A Gaming Diary
360
Too Human Demo (360)
Jul 27th
Seems to be okay, but it’s hard to tell given the sheer amount of incredibly tedious cut scenes you have to sit through. I like killing robot monsters, I like getting new equipment, I like getting new skills. I don’t like having to sit around doing nothing and I don’t like that it’s so dark that it’s almost impossible to play on a sunny day.
1942: Joint Strike Demo (360)
Jul 24th
I quite liked this. It feels zippy enough, but the demo level is a bit empty. A definite 400 point buy, but 800 feels a bit steep to me.
Doom (360)
Jul 24th
Just a quick play while some demos downloaded. There’s still nothing to beat the Doom shotgun for sheer kill satisfaction.
Call of Duty 4 (360)
Jul 6th
Just the single player campaign today. A great variety of gameplay styles (well, a great variety within the limited scope of a modern war-themed first person shooter) and some amazing set pieces. Great stuff.
Call of Duty 4 (360)
Jul 3rd
More online play. Saw a couple of friends online for a little bit, but I mainly played randoms. (And made good use of the Mute button.) It was great fun, even though I was a bit rubbish, and I got up to level six. I only need eleven more kills with my AK47 to unlock a red dot laser sight, which I guess might be nice.
Call of Duty 4 (360)
Jul 2nd
Last night was the weekly BETEO vs UGVM match, which this week was Call of Duty 4. I had a couple of goes at Free-For-All with strangers before the match and got slaughtered horribly. And then got slaughtered horribly when we started playing Team Deathmatch. I was on the UGVM side to make up numbers and it seems that the BETEO players are much, much better. After they killed us a few times we just decided to completely mix the teams up, which worked a lot better and made for some very close games.
I was awful, though. Just kept dying over and over again. Except for one map that was just lots of corridors and small rooms. I had a shotgun in that one and managed to kill eight people. Pretty cool.
Great fun, but I really need some practice.
Civilization Revolution (360)
Jun 29th
Hooray! Third time lucky on King difficulty!
I managed to get an Economic victory as the Zulu, three turns before Japan’s space ship was due to reach Alpha Centauri. I was completely surrounded and down to only two cities, but I managed to hold on for the win. Epic stuff.
Civilization Revolution (360)
Jun 29th
Upped the difficulty to King. Ouch. The French and I fought each other for millennia, with no real advantage on either side and then the Egyptians launched a spaceship and won.
Civilization Revolution (360)
Jun 28th
Started a game as the Spanish. Aimed for a domination victory, but the Russians and Japanese were way too strong and I ended up having to go for a cultural victory instead.
