A Gaming Diary
Archive for May, 2007
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.
Omalone (DS)
May 11th
A very polished Homebrew board game. It’s too late to explain the rules here, but you use your pieces to push your opponents pieces off the board and it’s all very simple but well done.
Test Drive Unlimited (PSP)
May 11th
I’ve just driven around the island for seventy miles or so looking for a Class C car to buy. Finally settled on some sort of Aston Martin, which seems okay. I need to do a for more challenges before I can be sure.
Anyway, yes, I just wanted to point how odd it is to spend an evening just driving round an island looking for a new car – and to enjoy it.
Picross DS (DS)
May 11th
Ah ha!
Using button input means that the big puzzles aren’t zoomed out when you play them, making the whole game about five thousand times more playable.
I really don’t need another puzzle game to play, but I can see myself getting right back into this one now.
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.
