A Gaming Diary
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Halo 3 (360)
Sep 28th
Last night I played a lot of single player and got up to the penultimate level, level eight.
Now, level eight is already infamous online with The Internet deeming it to be a rubbish level in an otherwise stunning game. In this case, The Internet is right. It’s bloody atrocious. Incredibly repetitive in the most annoying fashion, badly checkpointed, far too easy to get lost in, despite basically being a single corridor, and with dull and annnoying combat.
Last night I was thinking that it wasn’t up to Halo standards, but was still the standard of a decent FPS, but in the cold light of day I feel it may not even be that good. It’s like a bad FPS and Halo is a bad game while you’re playing it.
Shame, as all the levels preceeding it were incredible. Absolutely marvellous. So many great moments and all I could think while playing was “I can’t wait to play this again.” I’m itching to finish the game so I can play through it all again, but I’m not going to be looking forward to level eight, unless it somehow clicks when I try it again next time I play.
Halo 3 (360)
Sep 26th
I am loving this.
However, after playing the single player for an hour or so I accepted a game invite for some multiplayer fun, assuming the game had been saving my progress as I’d been going along.
It seems not.
Looks like I’ll have to restart, but I really don’t mind, given the fun I had first time round.
Geon Demo (360)
Sep 25th
I quite liked this. Felt a bit random, but an enjoyable waste of time nonetheless. Didn’t really click with me and I never noticed my opponent scoring, but it was fun enough.
Possibly, maybe 400 points of fun. Not 800 points of fun though, I’m afraid.
Sega Rally Demo (360)
Sep 25th
I’m playing this demo far too much, you know. I really don’t like how much I like this game, if you know what I mean. It’s starting to feel dangerous.
Colin McRae DiRT (360)
Sep 18th
Up to tier five now. I’m only playing on Clubman difficulty, which may explain the quick progress.
Colin McRae DiRT (360)
Sep 17th
After Sega Rally this felt a bit dull and listless for a couple of races, but then I got back into it. Managed to get myself up to tier three and netted a fair few achievements. I even enjoyed the big trucks I had to race in a couple of events, which I wasn’t really expecting.
Sega Rally Demo (360)
Sep 17th
Fantastic arcade racing. I wish it was rubbish, but it’s great.
Sigh.
Colin McRae DiRT (360)
Sep 15th
While the wife had a quick shower, I took the opportunity to do a couple of quick events and had a very, very good time indeed.
It seems this game really is excellent when it comes to cars and right now I’m glad it escaped the trade in pile when I went into town today.
