Two-player Xbox Live fun and japes today, mainly in million-way deathmatch. We are crap in comparison to those we played against, although we never came last, which is always nice. One of the maps we played on seemed to be “player designed”, as it was really small, and rubbish. There was one section you could get in, which was great for sniping, but you couldn’t get out again. Stupid.
Deluge mode again. I have 12 planets unlocked now, so went through them all trying to get high scores on each of over 50,000. Yes, I know that isn’t very high. I need more Glow and Time meteos though, and I don’t know how the heck you’re supposed to get them.
More play on Deluge mode today, racking up the Meteos and unlocked a few more things – mostly sounds, I think. I think I’m getting the hang of the more-than-frantic hold-the-drop-button-down-constantly way of playing, although I sometimes feel I’m just randomly rubbing the screen, or at best vaguely rubbing in the right place.
Two more levels completed now – both set in 2052 or something. Some more gaming in-jokes here too, with you picking up a lab suit and being called “Gordon” (from Half-Life), and some Doom 3 type sections too. And mutants who explode themselves at you. Nice. Oh yes! There’s a cleaning robot you activate too, not unlike the skutters from Red Dwarf, and plenty of Robocop bits. Excellent. And forget two Cortezeses, as one of the sections has four. BEST. …
No way in hell am I going to beat 9.17s for 100-Meteo War mode now. So I didn’t try. Instead, I attempted 1000-Meteo War mode several times, finally completing it in 3:03.58. Pretty poor, but at least it is done. “Fused” a few more items, and then fused some planets and played on those for a bit. My “Deluge” mode scores range from 35,000 to 120,000 currently. Not sure if that’s good or bad. Bad, probably.
HAHAHAHAHAHA! I AM BEST! FOR I, BESTEST EVAAR, GOT A BEST TIME OF 9.17 SECONDS FOR 100-METEO WAR MODE. BEST! ME! WINNAR! Ahem.
Online-only play on Timesplitters this evening. Had about 6 Deathmatches – mainly against random people, but did play against someone from the Retro Gamer forums in one of the matches. Didn’t do fantastically well, but did manage to come third or fourth on all of the rounds – with 6 to 9 players in each round. Not too bad then.
Enjoying this so far. I might even complete it. You never know. Went back and completed the level with Harry Tipper, and the train level following it. Homage to Goldeneye, by the same developers? Perhaps… At the end of the level there was a puzzle thing to stop the nuclear missile being launched, and a fight with a guy with a rocket pack. Obviously. The next two levels were obviously inspired by Resident Evil. Firstly, it was set in a …
Nothing specific on this, although I did manage to get the 100-Meteos mode time down to about 15 seconds. Apparently, you need to drop it below 10 to be hardcore super-1337. So that won’t be happening any time soon, then. Played a few of the other modes too, and unlocked some more sounds in the Fusion section.
World 3 completed now. I see they’ve started recycling bosses already though – the one at the end here was just two of the spiders from World 1. The game’s flaws are becoming apparent now too – bounce angles are only in 45 degree steps, for a start. And it is pretty repetitive. But still fun.
Just worked my way through World 2 on this. Not that it took very long, although the boss at the end was a bit of a pain. Luckily, my ball got trapped between its head and the wall on my third attempt, and it died pretty quickly.
I hadn’t realised that you could play multiplayer mode on your own, and have bots make up the rest of the players, until Tim Miller mentioned it in uk.games.video.handheld today. So I did a bit o’that. And very good it is too – especially the mode where there are a billion powerups available right at the start.
More play on this. Managed to complete the other Star Trip “levels”, and finished more trials and stuff. Played “simple” mode for a while too, against three CPU players – mainly to gain Meteos to fuse in the Fusion section.
I completed the first Star Trip mode today. It was actually pretty easy. Also played some of the Deluge and timed modes, but didn’t get any particularly impressive scores. Found an option called “Fusion”, which seems to let me create new planets and Meteos and sound test things and stuff, so I did some of them too.
The US version of this DS puzzle game arrived from Videogamesplus this morning – just in time for me to take it away to a conference with me. Played it a little this evening. BEST EVAAR. Hectic, frantic, spastic, fantastic, arsenic and other words ending with “ic”. It is sort of like Columns, only a bit more like Zoo Keeper. Only not like either. And it has rockets. But it is very good.