Crown Get! Someone on rllmuk tipped me off that Extra Mode 2 was the best one to try for the Crown, and lo, he was right. On my first go I got loads of them! Managed a score of 381,000-ish too, so I was prompted to keep trying for a 400,000 score, but every further attempt just got me less and less. With my final go I just scraped 92,000. Weak.
This was new up on XBLA today, so I had a go of the demo. It’s good. In that it’s faithful to the original (with new graphics and slightly easier gameplay), but I never really liked the original all that much as it was too hard. As a result, I’m a bit confused as to whether I should buy it or not. If it was 400 points, then yes – I’d give it a go, but at 800 and with …
Tim has been playing this recently, and it reminded me that I’d bought it a while ago but not actually started playing it yet. So I started playing it. Yet. Or at least, I tried, but it was a good half an hour between turning the PS2 on (having removed the inch of dust covering it) and actually doing some proper “game” as the intro and chat takes ages. Anyway. I’ve started school. My first two lessons were Chemistry and …
I’ve come to the conclusion that this is the hardest game ever made. I played a few games online, and lost every since one by at least three goals. Not only that, but I’m incapable of finishing the second (novice!) challenge in Challenge Mode. Rubbish.
Today was Apple’s WWDC ’07 keynote. I don’t normally get interested in these things, but I found myself reading a transcript of the event earlier. And the thing that stood out most? No, not Leopard’s new features. Or the fact that it’s only US$129 (or as Steve Jobs put it, “Leopard shipping in October. Basic version, $129. Premium version, $129. Business version, $129, Enterprise version $129. Ultimate version, $129.”). It wasn’t the iPhone either (no keyboard, so useless to me). …
My wife has been playing this a lot recently, and it shows. We played two player, and she beat me at everything – backgammon, billiards… everything. Bah. That’s all wrong.
Dear Rare: Please give me the nine hours and thirty-three minutes I spent on your awful game back. KTNX, love deKay xxx I have very little good to say about this game. But I’ll try. Well, the number of things going on at once is pretty good, but that only adds to the atmosphere, and doesn’t change the gameplay. Dull, linear, tedious, surprise-free, awkward gameplay. Lord Drok (is that his name? Big metal bloke with mallet) was easy, but took …
Never really enjoyed the other Tenchu games. Well, not the two I played on the PS1 anyway. I just don’t like hide-and-seek simulators, ninjas or no ninjas. Probably explains why I don’t like Splinter Cell either. Anyway. I realised you can skip almost the entire “level” in the demo simply by swimming around the harbour rather than sneaking through the town for leaping across rooftops. So I did that, steath-killed a few people guarding the boat you have to reach, …
Tedious. That’s what Kameo is. Tedious. I’ve found the old bloke who may be my uncle or grandfather or something now. I’m not really paying too much attention, to be honest, as I now just want the game over and done with.
Challenge Mode 2 WIN! Only with a crap score as I spent most of my time hiding rather than actually trying to eat pellets or ghosts. But I did it! Had a go at aiming for the Crown too, by playing Challenge 1, but only concentrating on one side of the maze. It didn’t work.
I don’t really like referring to this game as Shadowrun, because as far as I’m concerned, it isn’t. It’s a FPS with World of Shadowrun paint. Yeah, some clever ideas to lift it above a generic FPS (magic, teleporting, hovering, etc) but in the end, it’s still a FPS. And I don’t really like those. So in all, I found it meh.
It’s Evil Pikmin! Ace! Played through the demo twice (well, one and a half times – it crashed part way through the first time), killed sheep, destroyed a farm, smashed pumpkins, killed halflings, and beat up a giant troll thing. It’s great this!
I can’t believe how mediocre this game is. Yeah, Rare have pulled some real stinkers out of the hat before (Grabbed by the Ghoulies anyone?) but this was so hyped, and so long in the making (it was originally a N64 title!) that it’s amazing that it was released in this, clearly unfinished, state. Earlier today, I posted this at rllmuk: I’m five hours in, and have just done the catapult bit. Having no proper way of rolling the ammo …
John Pickford, one half of The Pickford Bros, has been shilling this on rllmuk for quite a while now. And, since Parallels for the Mac now supports Direct3D and OpenGL and fancy stuff like that, I could potentially play it on there, so I’m now interested in taking a look. First though, I thought I’d test it on my PC. Downloaded it, started it up, and jumped into Sandbox Mode. Took three turns, and the game crashed out with a …
A while ago, I found out about the HTC Athena (eventually sold as the HTC Advantage). It’s a large PDA with a mini-laptop air about it. There was no way I was going to buy one, as they were ¬¨¬£750 or something. But now, I’ve seen the Asus EeePC.It’s a thing of wonder and beauty. Yes, it’s a little larger than the HTC, and no, it’s not a phone as well. But it is a lovely 7″-screened, DS Lite-alike mini-laptop. …