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A Gaming Diary
Various Live Arcade Demos (360)
Jun 20th
Lost Cities – Might be a good game somewhere in there, but the presentation is awful and very hard to read. I got fed up with having to squint to work out what all the numbers were. Deleted.
Battlezone – I love the new look, but the demo is too short to give me any indication of whether the gameplay stands up. Seriously, it lasts about thirty seconds. Deleted.
Sea Life Safari – Actually seems okay and I think my wife would like it. It’s a lightweight Pokemon Snap with an Endless Ocean skin. Basically. I’d spend 400 points on it, but not 800. Not bought, but not deleted.
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 (PSP)
Jun 20th
Lat night I unlocked a new character and, even better, got 129ft chip-in Eagle. Hooray!
World of Warcraft (PC/Mac)
Jun 18th
A somewhat frustrating lunchtime spent teamed up with someone who didn’t speak English and didn’t share a quest.
Still, I got one of my quests done and got up to level twenty, so it wasn’t wasted time at all.
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max (PSP)
Jun 18th
Gave this a quick go when I got bored of playing golf.
Oh dear.
My skills are gone. Not that I had many to begin with. But even my d-pad manipulation skills have gone. Last time I played I could pull off a fireball any time I wanted to, but I was having a lot of trouble last night.
Gave up in shame and frustration in the end.
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 (PSP)
Jun 18th
There’s really not much to say. I almost got a hole in one last night but, er, didn’t. I unlocked some more clothing options and, um, that’s it, really.
It’s golf. What can I say?
Spore Creature Creator Trial (Mac)
Jun 17th
Let’s get this straight. EA are releasing – for money – the creature creation part of the game Spore, that’s coming out at the end of the summer. But they’ve also released a demo of this small part of the game, for free. Right.
You drag and drop eyes and limbs and things to make a weird-looking monster, then watch it wander around. And that’s about it. Somehow, despite being quite pointless, it’s great fun and I’ve already ordered the full version. Well, it’s only a fiver.
Kept me away from World of Warcraft at lunchtime, anyway.
Civilization Revolution (360)
Jun 16th
Just got a Space Race victory as the Arabs.
I think I need to up the difficulty, though. I had to actively avoid all the other victory types to get to space.
World of Warcraft (PC/Mac)
Jun 16th
This lunchtime I killed a lot of trolls. And then poisoned their food for good measure.
But they were bad trolls, so that’s okay.
Civilization Revolution (360)
Jun 15th
Just the one game so far.
I was the Zulu and rampaged around the world, winning a domination victory in 1450AD. Would have been earlier, but I couldn’t find the last couple of civs.
Excellent game.
Civilization IV (PC)
Jun 14th
I certainly didn’t mean to play this until half past three in the morning. But the Americans needed conquering and then the Egyptians got in the way and I couldn’t find their final city and then it was so near the end of the game that it didn’t make sense stopping…
I won a Time Victory in the end. That seems to be based on who has the most points in 2050AD. Hurrah, I guess.
(Culture seems to be a bit different in this game compared to Civ 3. I only had two small cities revolt and join my civilization due to culture and I’d been pumping out wonders and temples and libraries like nobody’s business.)
