360

Lost Planet Demo

This is really, really good.

Tried the second level this evening, against humans rather than bugs. Lots of enemies, fairly open areas, big guns.

Uno

It’s apparently a popular real life card game. P’anther knew of it. I think I’ve vaguely heard of it, but I’ve never played it. So I cautiously downloaded the trial version of the game. After a few hands getting used to the rules and filling in the blanks in the slightly rubbish online help I realised it was ace and bought the full version. (It’s a 400 point game, which seems fair.) No idea what makes it so compelling, but it is.

I’ve played a few single player games and one match online. Unfotunately, there don’t seem to be that many people playing so that match had only one other human player and two AIs making up the numbers. The other human won. I lost. I’ve lost all my matches so far.

At least one achievement you’re meant to get for winning a game got given to me for winning a hand. So that’s okay.

Lost Planet Demo

It’s available now on Live Marketplace and from a brief (failed) go at one of the levels on offer it seems really very good indeed. It’s a very satsifying third person shooter with old-school Gauntlet-style generators, all wrapped up in a next-gen coat of impressively shiny graphics.

Almost made me forget about the Wii for a few minutes.

Hardwood Hearts

Won one, lost one. By one point. In the last round. I growled.

It’s a very Sunday morning kind of game.