Well, having sorted out the multiplier issues I’ve been having (it would appear that “1G” is actually “16” and therefore the multiplier and not something else), I managed to get a score of just over 2.2 million. This takes me back to the top of my (now extended) friends list, but I still can’t complete Area 3.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – I don’t like shooters. Except Defender. And Geometry Wars. And Smash TV. And Side Arms. And Parodius. And Sol Feace. And Space Invaders. And Galaga. And Dominator. But generally, I don’t like shooters. So why did I buy this? Because it’s BIG and SHOOTY and makes my eyes bleed, only bleed slightly less than GWE2 does. And it was by the Pac-man CE team, and that was amazing. This is …
Just the one go whilst I waited for Pac-Man to download. I managed a really good run, though, getting up to about level 8 or 9, and earning a score just shy of 60,000 points. OK, so it isn’t a fantastic score by any means, but it’s waaaay better than my previous 28,000-ish.
No score improvements, sadly, but I did managed to unlock another achievement, leaving just the “perfect challenge stage” one remaining.
Bought this for 400 points on Xbox Live Arcade today, after briefly playing the demo and thinking the £3-ish was worth it. And it was. It’s just Galaga, plain and simple. With achievements and a leaderboard system, which suddenly make it $hlmun times more enjoyable. So I played through until I got to Level 30 (no, not all in one go – Level 25 in particular caused some problems!), unlocking all bar two of the achievements. I haven’t seen the …
Played a few things this weekend: Beautiful Katamari (360)Me am cry. If I play the final level on Eternal mode, and collect absolutely everything (including The King), I can only get my Katamari up to 1,450,000km. Meaning 1,500,000 is, in fact, impossible – black hole or no black hole. With this revelation, I set about redoing levels again, making more and more planets so that I’ll have some more to collect next time I try. Assuming the black hole doesn’t …
But mainly Centipede. There’s not a huge difference in one game to the other, with Millipede offering more baddie types, but the same basic game. I don’t really know why I bought this. I don’t really like shooters (as I keep saying, but then, look at Geometry Wars, Mutant Storm, Time Pilot, Galaga, et al…), but I have fond memories of an old Spectrum clone of Centipede called, predictably, Spectipede. And it was on XBLA at that magic I’ll Buy …
You know, I don’t think I’ve ever knowingly played Gyruss before. It’s basically Tempest crossed with Galaga, and although pretty good, it isn’t really me. Mind you, I was never all that fond of Galaga, or Time Pilot, and I bought both of those. Hmm.
Worked my way through more tracks today (with the Starnose, which took ages to get used to as far as drifting is concerned), completed another “circuit”, and unlocked another car – the Gaplus car. ACE. When you drive it, you get a remix of the Galaga (or, I suspect Gaplus) music. Which is also ACE.
