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A Gaming Diary
Crystal Quest
Mar 10th
Horribly addictive.
I’ve now beaten my own high score and, more importantly, retaken the lead on my Friends Leaderboard, with a cool 23,400,000.
Star Wars: Battlefront 2
Mar 10th
So, I was looking for games to trade in at Game tomorrow and came across Battlefront 2, which I’d got for Christmas and not played.
I’d put it on my Amazon wishlist because the online game sounded good, back when I had more faith in the 360′s backwards compatibility. Now I can only play it single player, but I thought I’d give it a go.
Just did training. Seemed pretty good, actually. A bit messy, not the best camera in the world and like all Xbox games (except OutRun 2) it looks rubbish on my TV, but it seems like a solid third-person shooter. And it’s got Star Wars graphics and noises, which is a good thing.
And I got to pay as Mace Windu and chop up droids with a lightsaber, which isn’t something I’m going to complain about.
Crystal Quest
Mar 9th
Weird.
I would never have thought that it would be Crystal Quest that would keep me up an hour past my bedtime.
I’m going to pay for this tomorrow.
Crystal Quest
Mar 9th
A friend of mine, who we’ll call “James”, got Crystal Quest recently.
He said his Friends Leaderboard wasn’t working and the game was recording the incorrect skill level on the Live Leaderboard.
So I thought I’d have a go. My Friends Leaderboard was working and James was in the top spot that I’d previously been occuping, with a score of 11,000,000, compared to my 7,000,000. And, indeed, it was showing the skill level he’d played on as “1″. So I played and played and played some more. I hit 14,000,000 and checked the Leaderboard. I was above James, yes, but it was showing my skill level as “1″. I played some more and some more and some more. And I hit 17,000,000. This time it recorded my skill correctly as “x10″, so I guess it’s an intermittent bug, or one they solved while I was playing.
Two new achievements and a new high score more than my previous one. Not bad at all.
The Outfit Demo
Mar 7th
Two more games. I lost the first pretty handily after blowing up a bridge I really needed to be left intact. The second was a bit of an epic, but I won it in the end.
It’s brilliant.
Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
Mar 7th
Completed!
Total time spent playing was probably around an hour. That’s all right for £1.50, I reckon.
The Outfit Demo
Mar 6th
Had a few more games, including an absolute epic that’s the only one I’ve lost so far. It was great. For the last half of the match, at least, I was really hanging on by a thread and making small comebacks that didn’t build up enough momentum to turn the tde. Final score was about 185-139, or something like that.
The Outfit Demo
Mar 6th
New 360 demo.
It’s one of those very annoying multiplayer-only demos.
No tutorial, no nothing. There is, at least, a screen showing which buttons do what.
So I leapt into a one-on-one game online. Seemed pretty simple, really. Just kill the enemy and try to capture the capture points. Bit like Day of Defeat, but different. Anyway, I won. Even though I stood around doing nothing for a while half-way through when I had to skip through the “lost kitten” conversation in Animal Crossing.
It was annoyingly enjoyable, too. I really, really, really don’t need any more games to buy. Poor buggers coming out the same day as GRAW and Fight Night. If they’d released this time last month when nothing was coming out they could have cleaned up.
