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A Gaming Diary
Killzone 2 Demo (PS3)
Feb 11th
Another run through the demo last night. It was awesome again. Loved it.
Such a turnaround.
Maybe more people would be wanting to buy this if they’d made the demo longer, because it certainly seems to need some play before it clicks.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Feb 11th
Only had ten minutes to play last night. Didn’t do much, but my wife sent me a lovely robo clock to add to my robo collection.
Killzone 2 Demo (PS3)
Feb 10th
Blimey.
This clicked last night. Like, properly clicked. I put the sensitivity options up one notch each, which may have helped, but I don’t really know why last night it clicked when it hadn’t before. But I loved it. I was using tactics, taking headshots, spraying fire for control purposes, using grenades to flush enemies out of hiding and everything just worked.
Immensely fun and satisfying fights, like nothing I’d ever had before. The only comparison I can really think of is Halo. Which, from me, is high praise indeed. But it may – may – even have felt… better.
Seriously, I was astounded by how much I enjoyed myself.
I need to play the demo again, to see if the fun has stuck, or if this was some crazy aberration.
But, no, somehow I found an incredible game in what had previously been a standard shooter with awful controls.
No idea what happened there, no idea at all.
Animal Crossing: Let’s Go To The City (Wii)
Feb 10th
Sahara came, asked me for old wallpaper. Went to ask the animals, but Chow had lost his key, so I spent ages – two trips to Nook’s to sell fish! – trying to find it. Eventually did, but he had no wallpaper for me. Nor did any of the other residents. FAIL.
Far Cry 2 (360)
Feb 8th
With Call of Duty 4 down, I picked this up again and spent half an hour or so getting used to the game again. Found some diamonds, unlocked a couple of safe houses, did a mission for the guy in the gun shop.
Not without irritations – saving anywhere and fast travel options would be lovely – but the gun play is excellent, which is the important thing, I feel.
Call of Duty 4 (360)
Feb 8th
Completed!
Spent two or three hours this morning polishing off the single player campaign. Good stuff, when you remember that you’ve got to keep pushing ahead.
I’m not sure I’ll ever want to play it again, though, and I never play online any more, so this may be trade fodder now.
Assassin’s Creed (360)
Feb 8th
Completed! Yeah!
Very good game indeed, spoiled somewhat by a terrible last hour or two. Really, it’s awful. Forced fight after forced fight, with no opportunity to do any of the cool stuff you’ve spent the whole game learning.
And the story doesn’t actually end. Or, indeed, stop. You’re just left hanging.
Good game, terrible ending.
Halo Wars Demo (360)
Feb 8th
I think I like this quite a lot. I’m not entirely sure, though. There don’t seem to be many different units and there’s no way to manually make mixed groups of units that you can easily access. (When playing Dawn of War yesterday I was struck by how much I group units with Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, etc.)
Still, it works well with the controller, the campaign seems interesting and I had a fun Skirmish against Normal (i.e. hopelessly easy) AI and it’s just plain fun.
A possible pay day purchase. More likely than Killzone 2 right now, anyway.
Quake Live Beta (PC)
Feb 8th
I got an unexpected beta key through in my email.
Installed it, grabbed a USB mouse, then tried to play.
Two problems.
1) I have to sit hunched over, leaning way down onto the keyboard and mouse, which is very uncomfortable.
2) My cat finds the mouse the most interesting thing ever and wouldn’t leave me alone as I tried to play. I didn’t even manage to finish the ten-minute training match. D’oh.
Dawn of War: Dark Avatar (PC)
Feb 8th
Two pounds and seventy pence from Impulse this weekend. Massive bargain. Just played one quick skirmish as my friends the Orks. I set it on Easy and had a fun rampage. Just like old times. Trackpad works well enough at that level, though a mouse would be nice.
Seems to run absolutely fine on the NC10 in the no-frills safe mode.
