A Gaming Diary
360
Frogger (360)
Jul 16th
Can’t get off level three. I can get there without losing a life and I can get very close to completing it, but I’ve never quite done it.
Tried some online matches but they were awfully jerky and slow. Might be my connection again, but I hope not.
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II (360)
Jul 16th
Started with the full version today. Did the two tutorials (the first of which has a lot of problems with pausing which aren’t in the demo version, so are probably something to do with disc access) and the first mission of the Good campaign. I normally only play skirmishes in RTS games, but I’m going to give the campaigns a go in this one.
Frogger (360)
Jul 14th
Got off level two!
I’ve got loads of people above me on my friends list, though. Bastards, the lot of them.
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II Demo (360)
Jul 14th
Another stupidly long name from EA. Much as I hate them right now – ask me about The Sims 2 on the DS some time – this was very, very enjoyable. Would have liked to be able to zoom the view out a bit more, but that’s about my only complaint with the demo. It actually is an RTS that works with the joypad. Lots of fun and spectacle.
This demo actually persuaded me to return Chromehounds and get the full game of this instead.
Frogger (360)
Jul 12th
I have made Steve Jackson my bitch.
(Trans: I beat his high score.)
Yeah, it’s just Frogger for £3.40, but it’s on the 360 where it can be played very easily and it has high score tables and achievements.
And it’s Frogger, which is ace.
Uno (360)
Jul 9th
Two games just to check that my Live connection is okay.
It is.
I lost both games, but I had fun.
Chromehounds (360)
Jul 9th
You know, if you’re making a game that’s designed to be more or less online only, with the single player as not much more than training mode, then it might be a good idea to make sure your servers actually work.
I’ve not been able to connect to the Chromehound servers yet and it doesn’t sound like I’m the only one.
Much as I enjoy being all stompy – and I do – I have a feeling this may be going back.
Chromehounds (360)
Jul 8th
Well, hmm.
The mission design is a bit… rubbish… but driving/piloting the hounds is fun.
And I got just enough parts to design my own hound, which was amazing fun, even if it turned out to be useless. It spat machine gun death in huge amounts – one quick press of the trigger button created an attack lasting several seconds – but it couldn’t take any damage and ran out of ammo in no time at all.
However, it was very stompy, so at P’anther’s suggestion I called it Rooney.
Hitman Blood Money (360)
Jul 2nd
Just abit of playing around in the A Murder Of Crows mission. Haven’t really got anywhere, but I’m getting a better mental image of the map in my head.
Chrome Hounds Demo (360)
Jul 2nd
Tried the sniper mission.
I failed.
The reload time on the sniper gun is incredibly long.
It wasn’t really much fun.
