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A Gaming Diary
Forza Motorsport 2 Demo (360)
May 13th
I think I’m going to have admit that I like this, as I can’t seem to stop playing it. Today’s car was the Gallardo, which I managed to drive reasonably well for the most part. I wish tiny mistakes weren’t punished so severely, but there’s no way round that as it’s, you know, car racing.
Crackdown (360)
May 13th
First! Ever! Co-op!
Played with a friend of mine and it was great fun when it wasn’t disconnecting (when I was winning a checkpoint race) or crashing (when I won rocket tag).
I also got my first achievement for a while – the one for killing a boss in co-op.
Pokemon Diamond (DS)
May 12th
I’m unsure about what I should be doing right now. The next official task is the fifth gym, but I’ve somehow got to that stage with a severely under-levelled and unsuitable team, so I’ve got to try and level my guys up. If I just do battling of random Pokemon it’s going to take about six thousand years, so I’m trying to find a shortcut.
Centipede/Millipede (360)
May 12th
Been playing Millipede today. It’s fearfully addictive, despite the fact that I can’t come anywhere near the high score I set on the first day I played. Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
Blacksite Demo (360)
May 12th
Short and sweet. If the framerate can be sorted out before release – right now it’s astonishingly bad – then this might be worth keeping an eye on.
Forza Motorsport 2 Demo (360)
May 12th
This is very odd.
One part of my brain watches as I carefully, carefully drive a car round the same track fifteen times in a row and thinks it’s the most boring thing in the world ever.
Another part of my brain is very happy to carefully, carefully drive a car around the same track fifteen times in a row.
Very strange.
I can now pretty consistently win the race without getting any penalties in the Class C Impreza with the two aids that aren’t ABS turned off. Which is nice, I guess, but it’s not exciting in any way and it doesn’t feel much like driving to me. Okay, so I drive an S40 and the only fast bit of curvy road I ever get to drive down is the A229 between Linton and Staplehurst, but this game doesn’t feel anything like that. It’s either much more sedate (despite the speedometer reading 100 miles per hour) or spinning round and round in gravel.
Crackdown (360)
May 12th
So, there’s new DLC. It’s good stuff, too. The best bit is the simple “reset gangs” option, which means I’ve spent the morning killing all the Los Muertos bosses again. The new vehicles are fun and the guns are a novelty, but I suspect the new modes are where the main fun will come from.
Omalone (DS)
May 11th
A very polished Homebrew board game. It’s too late to explain the rules here, but you use your pieces to push your opponents pieces off the board and it’s all very simple but well done.
Test Drive Unlimited (PSP)
May 11th
I’ve just driven around the island for seventy miles or so looking for a Class C car to buy. Finally settled on some sort of Aston Martin, which seems okay. I need to do a for more challenges before I can be sure.
Anyway, yes, I just wanted to point how odd it is to spend an evening just driving round an island looking for a new car – and to enjoy it.
