A Gaming Diary
Archive for April, 2007
Super Rub ‘a’ Dub (PS3)
Apr 6th
You’re a rubber duck in a bath.
You rescue smaller rubber ducks by tilting the controller to grab them and take them to exit, avoiding clockwork sharks.
It’s clean, it works, it’s very playable and it’s £3.49.
Fair enough.
Motorstorm (PS3)
Apr 4th
Mud, mud, glorious mud!
Did a few races today. Got three first places really easily and then on the fourth I thought I’d won until I saw that some evil motorcyclist had just pipped me at the post without me noticing. Ouch.
I’d rather be playing Oblivion, but with the 360 dead and gone then this was a good – if entirely different – substitute.
Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)
Apr 3rd
Second SIXAXIS controller arrived today, so I played 2-player Virtua Fighter for the first time in my life. I was playing Aoi against my wife’s Pai. Final score? Er, well, um, I lost 6-1. Good fun, though. And it’s not the winning that counts.
Maddeningly, there seems no way for player two to log in to their profile, so when we played Tekken very briefly when I was logged in, it thought I was both players and was registering a win and a loss for me every time we played a match. Weird. And in VF5 my wife was the logged-in user, so I had to create a new character in one of her spare save slots instead of being able to use one of my own.
That can’t be right, surely?
Puzzle Quest (DS)
Apr 1st
Hmm.
Turn-based, two-player Bejewelled/Zoo Keeper clone + RPG elements = addiction.
There’s not a lot of story, no exploration, mostly just text menus and battling. But it works.
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (360)
Apr 1st
A quest to getcha cure seemed to be setting up a twist ending that never came.
I’m avoiding as much combat as possible, relying on sneaking and, to a much greater extent, running really, really fast.
I’ve not been getting into it as I thought I would. In particular, the summoning and killing of headless zombies I’m having to do to keep all magical weapons charged is getting very tiring.
One classic Oblivion moment, though. My vampirism was getting stronger, as I hadn’t fed for a while. Needing to stay out of sunlight, I sat on a bench in the local inn until the early hours of the morning. No guests at the inn, so I snuck out into the streets and picked the lock on a local house. I crept up to the bedroom and in. A figure asleep in bed – but someone standing next to them! I froze, but the standing figure didn’t see me and instead tottered across the room, groaning. I fed on the sleeping person – priorities – then crept up to the groaning creature, which seemed to be some kind of zombie… called Uncle Leo. It’s a strange place, the Shivering Isles.
flOw (PS3)
Apr 1st
Started it up to see if I’d made a mistake thinking I’d seen all the levels. I hadn’t.
