A Gaming Diary
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Crackdown (360)
May 13th
First! Ever! Co-op!
Played with a friend of mine and it was great fun when it wasn’t disconnecting (when I was winning a checkpoint race) or crashing (when I won rocket tag).
I also got my first achievement for a while – the one for killing a boss in co-op.
Centipede/Millipede (360)
May 12th
Been playing Millipede today. It’s fearfully addictive, despite the fact that I can’t come anywhere near the high score I set on the first day I played. Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
Blacksite Demo (360)
May 12th
Short and sweet. If the framerate can be sorted out before release – right now it’s astonishingly bad – then this might be worth keeping an eye on.
Forza Motorsport 2 Demo (360)
May 12th
This is very odd.
One part of my brain watches as I carefully, carefully drive a car round the same track fifteen times in a row and thinks it’s the most boring thing in the world ever.
Another part of my brain is very happy to carefully, carefully drive a car around the same track fifteen times in a row.
Very strange.
I can now pretty consistently win the race without getting any penalties in the Class C Impreza with the two aids that aren’t ABS turned off. Which is nice, I guess, but it’s not exciting in any way and it doesn’t feel much like driving to me. Okay, so I drive an S40 and the only fast bit of curvy road I ever get to drive down is the A229 between Linton and Staplehurst, but this game doesn’t feel anything like that. It’s either much more sedate (despite the speedometer reading 100 miles per hour) or spinning round and round in gravel.
Crackdown (360)
May 12th
So, there’s new DLC. It’s good stuff, too. The best bit is the simple “reset gangs” option, which means I’ve spent the morning killing all the Los Muertos bosses again. The new vehicles are fun and the guns are a novelty, but I suspect the new modes are where the main fun will come from.
Forza Motorsport 2 Demo (360)
May 10th
Hmm.
I seem to have become an arcade racing fan in my old age. I’m not sure I have the patience for this sort of thing any more.
Jetpac Refeulled (360)
May 5th
Ah, now this is better than I thought it was. I may even put some time in and try to make my score slightly more respectable. I’m not bottom of my Friends Leaderboard, but I’m down there.
