Yes, it’s demo time again! Dark SectorYou move too slow and can’t jump, and the dual-wielding doesn’t feel right, and the weapons you can only use for 10 seconds is stupid and the Y-axis needs inverting and the sensitivity is way off (although both these things are adjustable) and I got to a dead end and have no idea where to go next. But. I sort of enjoyed it. It reminded me a lot of Resident Evil 4. NFL ’09American …
I AM WINNER! After another billion attempts, I finally managed to beat The Rev’s score on Deadline! By around 750k, I think. I even leapfrogged the next person up the list too! GLOAT.
Once more, The Rev thought he could beat my scores. In fact, he’d only beaten my King score (although his cheat-obtained Deadline score still stands), but not by a huge amount. After a few (say, 30) goes I’d beaten him by around a million points. Hurrah! Sadly, the news was not so good for Deadline. I beat my own score by another 300,000 or so, but didn’t manage to topple The Rev from his perch. Yet.
Several attempts at Deadline, Sequence and Pacifism to try and beat the scores I had set already, but unfortunately failed on all three. I think, in order to beat The Rev’s 4.5 million-ish on Deadline, I have to be up to around 600k after one minute, and 2 million after two minutes – and I just can’t do it.
So The Rev thought he could beat four of my scores, eh? Of course, they didn’t last long. I’d soon overtaken three of them again, and then went and improved even further on the two he couldn’t beat anyway (Pacifism and Sequence). I’m nice like that. Oh, and his Deadline score? He cheated. I’ve reported him for it. I was also nice to Something Witty, mainly by sending him messages while he was trying to beat my scores.
Four more games against my wife on the Europe map today, and, in a reverse of last night, four wins for me. I haven’t needed to use any stations yet though.
Have I mentioned how tedious it is playing this? How little fun I’m getting out of it? How I can’t wait until it’s all over? No? Well, I am now. Today was spent working through the same three areas over and over again. First, there’s The Big Almost Circular Room (with smaller circular room within it). Then, there’s One Of Three Styles of Tunnel, and finally Jesus Christ Not Another Bloody Bridge. Intersperse these with Boring Lift Journeys, and you …
The Europe map was available for download today, at a slightly expensive 600 points. But I bought it, and it is pretty aces. Played four games with my wife, and she won all four. Of course, we were both totally thrown by the added new rules – the ferries, the tunnels, and the stations. They all make it a bit more complicated!
Hah! So That Rev Chap thought he could take me on today! Only his scores were thwarted with ease, and once again I was Champion. Champion of, erm, some, anyway. Later, I played again and almost completed Sequence mode. I can do the first 10 levels, without dying or using bombs, but not all in the same go. Which is a shame, as if I could do it, I’m pretty much guaranteed to complete the other 10 with the 5 …
Sigh. If “The Silent Cartographer” is supposed to be a highlight of the game, then it really does need putting down. It was awful. More corridors that look the same. Areas of the map too dark to see in (and no, the flashlight doesn’t really help). Wave after wave after wave of the same baddies again and again and again. Tedious! I thought things might have improved when I got to the next bit (which starts with more identical rooms …
So, Something Witty thought he could claw back some of his rankings, did he? Of the six modes, he’d overtaken me on 3 by the time I got to play this morning. Naturally, I slew his so called “high scores” easily. And then distanced myself from him even further on those he failed to beat me on. After that, to rub salt into his wounds, I spent a merry hour mopping up some of the achievements he hasn’t got. I …
I predicted on Usenet that GWE2 was likely to only be half the game Geometry Wars: Galaxies on the Wii was. And, having bought it, I was pretty much right. But that doesn’t mean it’s bad. Not in the slightest – it’s still amazing. It only had 6 “levels” (or rather, modes of play), but they’re more varied in rules than those in Galaxies. This evening’s play was supposed to be a quick go to see how it plays. An …
Oh yes, I played it. For a while. I can’t get used to the remote-and-nunchuk controls (they don’t feel right, and C to jump is all sorts of wrong) so I might have to try another method. The Sub-space Emissary single player mode is fun though. However, there’s a big huge giant problem: I can’t save my game. I have no space left on my Wii. I’ve deleted everything I don’t want, copied everything I do want but don’t need …
And so it gets worse. The same corridors over and over and over and over again on the alien space ship. The way you go through essentially the same hanger 5 times. The fact everything is too dark to see. The annoying little baddies that sound like Ewoks. The way I had to complete almost the entire chapter with just one block of health. That chapter really was horrible. But then it was onto The Silent Cartographer. I recall from …
I’ve played it before. And didn’t like it. And I tried again on the PC. And didn’t like it. I’ve always found it dull, dark, slow and boring. So, having bought it at a car boot sale yesterday for the princely sum of £1.50, I thought I’d play it again. Not least because I got the sequel at the same time (for the same price), and I have a mostly unplayed Halo 3 for the 360 sat on a shelf. …