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A Gaming Diary
Geometry Wars 2
May 28th
Well, I was really tired so I told myself I was just going to have one game before bed.
So I did.
I scored 16,775 points.
Which is possibly my worst score ever.
I guess I’m tired.
Hitman: Blood Money
May 27th
I finally finished the first proper mission! Yay!
However, the newspaper headline after my mission was “Hoodlum Massacres 18!”, which shows that I didn’t quite manage to become the silent assassin that I was going for…
F.E.A.R.
May 26th
Just a quick go. I’ve taken my PC off my TV and put it back on a monitor and instad of speakers I’ve plugged headphones in. It’s improved the experience greatly. With the sounds so loud and close the scary bits are more unnerving and the fighting bits are just immense.
Good stuff.
Really is bed time now, though.
Hitman: Blood Money
May 26th
So, I started it on Expert difficulty, which is the third of four difficulty levels. (Unlike the second of three as it is in Contracts.)
Uses a slightly different control system to Contracts, which threw me. Looks much, much nicer, though.
I died doing the tutorial. Twice. Right at the end. That was annoying. And should have been a sign to me to change the difficulty level, I guess. But I didn’t.
I’ve been playing around in the first real mission today. It’s not going too well, but I think I’ve got a plan on how to dispose of my first target. I’ve tried it once and missed, but I think it’ll work.
Tomorrow.
Table Tennis
May 26th
Phew. I can now play online again. Unfortunately, the lack of lag exposes my rubbishness. I’ve lost all my matches this evening.
I just had an epic best-of-five match against some random person. My best rally won was 85, his was 87. It was that sort of game and must have gone for at least 45 minutes.
I notice that I’ve had some “unsporting” feedback left me in the last couple of days. Eh? How can someone be unsporting when it comes to Table Tennis? Unless I was somehow unsporting by having a rubbish connection last night. People, eh? Bastards, the lot of them.
Lumines Mobile
May 26th
It’s Lumines!
On a mobile!
And it only costs €3 from Gameloft.
I’ve just tried a quick go at Arcade mode so far, which challenged me with making a certain number of blocks in the shortest time possible. Seventy, then one hundred, I believe. Got a silver medal both times.
The only skin available was Shinin’, the same first skin as the PSP version. It doesn’t sound quite the same on my mobile, though the attempt to replicate the song is… endearing. (Or a horrific travesty if you’re one of those grumpy people.)
Anyway, it’s basically the same game, more or less. Less in the way of graphical effects and music. Control’s not as good. But there seems to be a ton of stuff to do and unlock.
Anyway, it’s a great game, so to have a handheld version I can carry around with me is great, even if it is cut down…
Er…
Hang on…
Table Tennis
May 25th
Well, I’ve confirmed with Telewest that there’s a problem with their network so no online gaming for me until it’s been fixed.
Harumph, I say!
But that gave me a chance to do the first single player tournament, which I won. Wasn’t easy, but by the gods it was fun. The gameplay mechanics are brilliant. Everything feels right. The use of rumble in particular is inspired – take that PS3!
Oh, and it’s right stick rather than buttons all the way for me.
Table Tennis
May 25th
The new 360 game from Rockstar. It plays brilliantly and I’m having fun online, even though I can’t find anybody with a non-red connection to play. Bah.
I just won a couple of matches, too. Well, someone dropped out before I’d even served and I got credited with a win and then I actually won a game, which gave me 10 gamerpoints. Hoorah!
Hitman Contracts
May 24th
Hooray!
I just finished Beldingfield Manor and got a Silent Assassin rating.
Kill a guard near the start, take his uniform and gun. Walk to the front of the house, up the ladder, in the window. Pick up poison. Save. Syringe the weird woman wearing underwear in the shower (could have turned it off, I found out later), smother the old guy with a pillow. Downstairs, to the basement, poison the cask of whisky. Save. Wait for target to be served and to drink whisky. Out the front doors, over to the stables, poison the horses, turn off the telly, steal the key, free the academic bloke, run straight back out the level.
Died quite a few times and it took about two hours in total, but got there in the end. And dying’s good too, because you get fun shootouts beforehand. As the colour bleeds away and the speed falls I always try to get the man that killed me.
Excellent stuff.
New Super Mario Bros
May 24th
Hooray! I opened World Four!
And I wasn’t told how to do it… Though enough people have been talking around the subject for me to be able to work out how it was probably done and indeed it was.
Now to play it!
