Yay! I bought it and it’s ace and just like SWOS ever was and brilliant and everything! But! There are problems. Which is a shame. Firstly, the 360 pad just isn’t right for this game. You need proper 8-way digital control, and the stick can’t provide that, and the d-pad is (as always) in the wrong place. This isn’t a huge issue, but I can’t help feeling I’d be playing better if I had a proper controller. Far more serious …
And today’s 360 demos? This pair of thingies: Kane and Lynch: Dead MenHmm. It’s a squad-based shooter (which I don’t like), but you play as the bad guys (which I do like), but it’s a bit clunky and they didn’t really choose the best location to show off the graphics (dull grey interiors). Nice that you can shoot chunks out of the walls though. Overall? Not my bag (baby). Burnout ParadiseIt’s Test Drive Unlimited crossed with Burnout. The map looks …
I actually played this for much of the afternoon, but thought I’d combine it all into one eye-friendly post. So I’ve played it a lot today, almost entirely on 2Fort. Again. Had a great time this afternoon with a group of people, and we were all pretty devious. As soon as a “hole” was found, they plugged it. So we found another hole. And so on. It was really good, and we won (which was even better). This evening, SomethingWitty …
After a false start earlier in the week, it finally made it onto XBLA in (seemingly) full working order today. And I think I may just have to buy it, as it’s exactly how I remembered. Well, not exactly. It plays the same, of course, but there’s now “pitch damage”, where mud shows through from tackles and stuff. And the spinning replay “R” is a different font. But they don’t matter! It’s SWOS! Amazing!
I am best! Well, OK, so I’m not. My first few games on Attack/Defend resulted in complete failure, but I think my choice of Sniper and the fact we were down a player (and I’d not played that map before) didn’t help. Then the host quit. So I joined a game of CTF on 2Fort. Yeah, again. And we won! Lots! It is true that I didn’t manage to get all that many points, and everyone on my team bar …
The wonderful SomethingWitty, despite his humiliating defeat on Guitar Hero III at the hands of me, gave me a copy of this today by way of some code i could redeem. Yeah, I played the demo ages ago and thought it was too crap to ever play ever again, but gift horses mouths and stuff, right? Right. Urgh. Imagine Super Smash Bros, and then remove all fun from it. Then remove pretty much every bit of style. Finally, scrape it …
Hurrah! We won again! Twice! Played three games (all CTF on 2Fort), but the host left part way through the first game, so I joined another instead. For the next two, I played as a Demoman, and had much fun with sticky remote mines. Managed to unlock an achievement for winning by shutout on 2Fort as well. It really is fun, this.
I turned my 360 on to find a couple of friends from work in a Halo 3 Campaign lobby, so I put the game in and joined them. It turned out that they were starting on the final level, although I didn’t realise this. Well, not until I completed it for them. Um, that’s it really. Too much jeep-thing action and not enough shooting. And you can’t drive properly as you have to steer with the camera controls, and everything …
“Lou” was totally impossible yesterday. I couldn’t even come close to beating him. And yet, for some reason, I managed it on my first try today without realising I was almost there. Amazing. You have to “finish him” after that (which is basically just finishing the song), and then it was credits time – complete with another track to play over (or, more literally, under) them. With that all done, I went and bought all the rest of the bonus …
So I beat Slash and made it up as far as Satan. Sorry, Lou, not Satan. Pff. And he’s impossible as the notes are completely random and move far too fast for mere humans. Which is probably why he wins, what with not being human and all. It’s a shame, because I’d managed to 4 or 5 star every track leading up to him without too much difficulty. I even mastered hammer-ons and pull-offs, but only for one track, but …
Rock! Again! This arrived yesterday, but I was out all evening so didn’t give it a play until this evening. I’m not really sure what to say, actually. It’s just more of the same. Sort of. Of course, there’s the new track listing, but I’m finding it somewhat lacking at the moment. There haven’t been many great songs (yet) – no Bowie, nothing like Bark at the Moon or Surrender, and lots of those available I’ve never even heard of …
Tried out today’s Arcade offerings… Gripshift:Um. Am I missing something, or is this just some crap collectathon? In a car? Arkadian Warriors:Like Gauntlet. Sort of. With RPG elements. Seemed quite good, actually. Reminded me of Angband for some reason.
Well, the ugvm boys were supposedly going to play this tonight. But they didn’t turn up until I’d been hanging around for an hour so I left. Pff. I’d played a few match-making games while waiting, and didn’t lose any (although I didn’t do especially well), but it just isn’t fun when you don’t know the people you’re playing with (unlike Team Fortress 2 which is ace regardless).
OH! MY! GOD! I was actually not only not crap, but actually absolutely vital to my team’s success today! I played a looooooong game of 8-on-8 Capture the Flag on the 2Forts map, as a Pyro. To start off, I thought I’d defend the flag (briefcase), seeing as no-one else was doing that, and saw off a fair few would-be thieves, but after a while my team got their act together defending, with gun turrets a-plenty and snipers and guards, …
Another brief stint on this, as someone else was after my remaining animals. My gardens are somewhat bare now, and even more so after I pimped up a Roario, called him “Keith Chegwin” and sent him off to Nils Tanner. I seem to just have whirlms and mothdrops left now!