A Gaming Diary
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Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
Mar 13th
I played some more of the single player game and I love it. It’s just so tense and just feels so right. Everything just seems to come together. So good. Finished off ‘Radey For Bear’, which was a tough one and then did the next mission which was probably the easiest yet, but no less fun.
Then I played a Team Elimination game with randoms and got killed. A lot. Oh well, it was my first game. And I did get one kill, which saved my pride, three seconds from the end of the match.
The only annoying thing is that I can’t seem to change my location anywhere and the game thinks I’m in the USA.
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
Mar 12th
Single player is really hard. I spent about an hour getting a few checkpoints through one mission. It’s really not bad hard, though. It’s good, challenging hard. It’s great.
As is playing co-op over the Internet. I’ve done a few random elimination rounds with Ade now and this evening we tried the first mission of the co-op campaign. We didn’t manage it. Well, we did in the end, but only after I’d given us infinite lives. We really need to do it properly some time, though.
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
Mar 11th
Traded in some games for it.
It is, as many people have been saying, technically the best looking game on any system ever.
It also plays well. Six hour session after first turning on well.
It’s bloody hard, though. I’ve just finished a mission called “Mayday! Mayday!” and it took me hours.
Haven’t even tried the multiplayer yet.
Crystal Quest
Mar 10th
Horribly addictive.
I’ve now beaten my own high score and, more importantly, retaken the lead on my Friends Leaderboard, with a cool 23,400,000.
Crystal Quest
Mar 9th
Weird.
I would never have thought that it would be Crystal Quest that would keep me up an hour past my bedtime.
I’m going to pay for this tomorrow.
Crystal Quest
Mar 9th
A friend of mine, who we’ll call “James”, got Crystal Quest recently.
He said his Friends Leaderboard wasn’t working and the game was recording the incorrect skill level on the Live Leaderboard.
So I thought I’d have a go. My Friends Leaderboard was working and James was in the top spot that I’d previously been occuping, with a score of 11,000,000, compared to my 7,000,000. And, indeed, it was showing the skill level he’d played on as “1″. So I played and played and played some more. I hit 14,000,000 and checked the Leaderboard. I was above James, yes, but it was showing my skill level as “1″. I played some more and some more and some more. And I hit 17,000,000. This time it recorded my skill correctly as “x10″, so I guess it’s an intermittent bug, or one they solved while I was playing.
Two new achievements and a new high score more than my previous one. Not bad at all.
The Outfit Demo
Mar 7th
Two more games. I lost the first pretty handily after blowing up a bridge I really needed to be left intact. The second was a bit of an epic, but I won it in the end.
It’s brilliant.
