Archive for August, 2006

Tried it again and worked out the controls a bit more. Enjoyed myself and even scored a touchdown. Still not entirely comfortable with it, but I’m sure I could be if I bought the full game.

Alas, there are too many games coming out soon, so there’s no way I can get this one, too. Sorry EA.

Might be a decent game, but the demo’s quarters are so short it’s impossible to tell. And it needs a tutorial – not in American football, just in the game mechanics. Annoyingly, I’m impressed despite the demo. I think there could be a fun game there, under the EA menus, if they’ve not got annoying “get fifty times better in the last quarter” AI in there again.

“Gary’s just this guy I know. He’s really fast.”

Just finished story mode. Took eight hours and forty-six minutes according to the stats page. About eight hours then, if we forget about the extra messing around I did. Just about the perfect length. Excellent game. Lots of variety, in both cut scenes and tasks. Some – like the snowmobile – would be horrible for a whole game, but for single levels here and there the worked well. I’d have liked some actually racing against people, or even just timed tasks without marked paths, but apart from that, very good stuff.

If it wasn’t a launch title and didn’t have the Amped name – it’s nothing like the original Amped, as far as I remember – then I think reviews would have been much kinder.

Well worth £17.99 from Play. And there’s still an awful lot to do now the story’s over – that just opens up all the levels, doesn’t complete them.

A very nice surprise this game. I give a curt nod of the head in appreciation.

Seems okay, but I’ve not played it much yet. Just did a couple of story missions and then got told to go forth and conquer, or something. It hasn’t even told me all the controls yet!