A Gaming Diary
PS3
Everybody’s Golf 5 Demo (PS3)
Apr 7th
Three holes of golfing goodness. Had to set up a Japanese account to download it, which was a pain, but it was just about worth it. It’s made sure I won’t be getting Tiger Woods and will be waiting for an English-language version of this instead.
I also tried the new control method, but with all the instructions in Japanese I couldn’t work out why my shots were failing so dismally, so I quit out on the first hole.
Super Rub ‘a’ Dub (PS3)
Apr 6th
Well, that’s all the levels cleared.
Not with gold medals, but they’re all done.
I don’t think it’s sold too well – most of my scores aren’t very good, yet are inside the top thirty on the Worldwide leaderboards. I’m even in the top ten on one level.
Shame, as it’s good fun and priced right at £3.49.
Formula One CE (PS3)
Apr 6th
Having enjoyed the demo and being without my 360, I decided to pick this up. I’m enjoying the driving very much, which is a good thing, as I’m not achieving anything.
Before each race there’s an hour or so of practice laps to get the car ready and qualifying laps to determine grid position. Then the race starts and somewhere on the first lap I hit another car and have to retire.
My current aim is to finish a race before the end of this season.
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?
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.
GripShift (PS3)
Mar 31st
Did a few more levels, for want of anything else to do. My net connection’s very flaky today, so I can’t sign into Live or the PSN any more.
It’s not been the best gaming day ever.
flOw (PS3)
Mar 31st
Blimey. There’s not much to flOw, is there? Took a couple of levels to work out how things worked, then the next four were completed easily, then instead of brand new creatures, end credits. Took game time less than an hour. I enjoyed it while it lasted but I do feel slightly ripped off, even though it was only £3.49. I can’t see it having much replay value, for me at least.
Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3)
Mar 29th
Started over in Quest mode with a new charfacter, Lei Fei, just for the hell of it, really. And I want the cool blindfold he can get.
Went up a few ranks and won the annoyingly prize-free Beginners Tournament.
