A Gaming Diary
Archive for October, 2006
FIFA 07 (DS)
Oct 8th
Well, I turned the difficulty up to Amateur and played two games against Birmingham City. (Boo, hiss, etc.) In the first game I had someone sent off three minutes in and lost 1-0, but in the second game I kept eleven men on the pitch and won 4-1. Which feels about right…
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge Of The Sith (DS)
Oct 8th
A nice little licensed game. A scrolling beat-em-up of the old school, with 3D Starfox-style flying stages inserted every few stages.
The story is compressed so much that it’s completely nonsensical if you’ve not seen the movie, but who’s going to be playing who hasn’t?
Far better than the awful Lego Star Wars II DS game, at any rate.
Touch Golf (DS)
Oct 8th
Now this I genuinely like without any if, buts, maybes or reservations of any kind.
Which isn’t to say that it’s the best game I’ve ever played, but it’s a nice non-gimmicky golf game that makes good use of the stylus and is fun to play.
FIFA 07 (DS)
Oct 8th
Well, it’s a lot more enjoyable straight off than the 360 demo.
Probably because it’s set on the easiest difficulty level – as Villa I just beat Port Vale 11-1 in the final of the English Cup.
Perhaps I need to make it a bit harder before judging what it’s really like, eh?
Doom (360)
Oct 7th
A couple more levels completed.
Annoyingly, I seem to have lost my 360 headset – I’m sure it’s around… somewhere – and my wireless controller has developed an annoying clicking sound when I move it back and to the right. Movement still feels fine so far, but the clicking noise sounds very wrong and gets into my brain and makes me want to kill things.
So Doom’s quite good for that, really.
FIFA 07 Demo (360)
Oct 7th
Hmpf.
I decided to play it until I scored a goal.
In the first game, I didn’t score.
In the second game, I didn’t score.
In the third game, I scored… sort of. It was credited to Giggs, but what happened was that Giggs took a shot, the goalkeeper fumbled it, a defender ran in, the ball bounced around between them and then over the goalie and into the back of the net. Looked like an own goal by the defender to me.
So, thinking that didn’t count, I played a fourth game, but didn’t score.
So I tried a fifth game, but didn’t score.
And then I turned the bloody thing off.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast (XBOX)
Oct 6th
A quick run through. The 328 GTS is twitchier than I remember, but I completed the SP tracks on the easiest route, so I was happy.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 (XBOX)
Oct 6th
Used this to test out Xbox on new TV. No improvement in visual quality – Xbox RGB output still seems to be horirbly dark and sludgy. This is an official cable and everything. I am perplexed.
Wish it looked better, as the game itself is perfectly enjoyable in short bursts.
FIFA 07 Demo (360)
Oct 6th
Hmm.
Looks nice and shiny, ball seems to behave better than any other footie game I’ve played, but it felt quite clunky and I didn’t score once in the three half-games I played.
I need to play this further. I am intrigued, but unconvinced.
Naked War (PC)
Oct 6th
I’ve completed one game and had an excellent time.
I lost horribly – I was playing one of the game’s programmers, after all – but by the end I almost knew what I was doing… Except when I didn’t jump out of tank even though I thought I’d asked myself to.
Odd.
Anyway, it’s great fun and well worth investigating.
