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Geometry Wars 2
Dec 10th
So, there I was watching a DVD of The Jacket, which finished, so I reached over, grabbed my controller and leapt straight from there into a game of Geometry Wars 2, which is a nice thing to be able to do.
Didn’t get a new high score, but I probably got my second best score ever, I think. The trouble is, after about 100,000 it just seems to get stupid and there’s no way to survive beyond blind instinct and subconscious control. It just gets too much for the conscious brain, but it’s not easy to just let go and let the dark parts of the mind take over.
The zone has to be somewhere you find yourself in, not somewhere you can go and search out.
Grasshopper.
Xbox 360
Dec 4th
More Infection this afternoon. It’s even fun when you join a game with only three other people, all of whom are German, and in which the host has opened the maps up to their full size. Not as fun as a small map with a dozen other people that I can talk tactics with, but still fun. Did a bit of co-op, too, missions three and four. Shamefully, we had to take it down to Agent difficulty because I couldn’t kill the big flying thing at the end of the level without completely running out of ammo and couldn’t find any more. It was very odd.
Apart from Perfect Dark Zero, I’ve just played some Geometry Wars and Hexic HD. Geometry Wars is just fantastic. Hexic’s okay when I play with music from my iPod playing.
Also, I’ve now got a full five-star reputation ranking, so that guy who left the unjust and unfounded unsportsmanlike rating doesn’t seem to have hurt me too badly.
Xbox 360
Dec 4th
Word of the day: Infection.
It’s the name of a game mode in the Dark Ops section of Perfect Dark Zero multiplayer. Basically, it’s a zombie movie turned into a game. Living players try to hold out from an approaching horde of skeleton players. If a living person dies, they become one of the skeletons. If the living players survive five minutes then they get the points.
(I’ve heard of PC game mods along the same lines before, but never played any of them.)
We played a load of games with about eleven players on the Urban map. Every game, the humans would hole up in a hotel with only one entrance and the skeletons would have to pick off people when the got a chance until the balance had shifted enough for the skeletons to storm the hotel and for the living players to try to flee.
I only survived once, but that was a sweet, sweet moment.
Apart from that, I’ve only played Geometry Wars 2, which is like a quick blast of Mutant Storm Reloaded, sort of thing.
