Hooray! Rejoice! And other such sentiments! It's 2010, the start of a new decade, moving on from the zeroes to the tens (I'm insisting on calling them the tens. "Tenties" doesn't make any sense.) I think 2010 is officialing living in the future. I'm making this year my best ever. I'm gonna buy more lottery tickets.
So I didn't really say what I got for Christmas since I've been ill for a lot of it, and I've also been distracted by all the awesome games I've been playing. Here's a quick run down of what's on the table;
Borderlands; Really fun and awesome FPS and RPG hybrid, bit grind-fest at points, but always quite humourous
Bioshock; Brilliant-ness, but I can't go on about it, cause I'm writing something for NR
Mass Effect; This was really good, right up until the point when I actually had to start shooting at things. Then it all fell apart, cause the combat doesn't work.
Batman: Arkham Asylum; Holy crap Batman, it's the NewbReview GOTY!
Prince of Persia; Ehhhh....
ALSO. For Christmas I got iTunes credit. Hooray for that. So I bought DOOM Ressurection for the iPod. Why? I dunno, I was bored. As opposed to being a real first person shooter, it turns out it's a on-rails dealy, with a few interesting weapons, like a chainsaw, but apart from that, it's a pretty standard affair. Sometimes the accelerometer would become badly calibrated and I'd have to reset the game to fix it. Overall, not bad but not overly fantastic. I shoulda bought COD WAW Zombies...
Sorry about the lack of quality in this blog post. I've been busy with games and I'm still a bit sick. Also I'm lazy, and easily distracted, so I spent most of the time whilst I was writing this watching The Big Bang Theory. Go figure.
Right, I'm going to write an email. You didn't need to know that. GOOOOOD-BYE.
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2 Jan 2010
21 Dec 2009
Snow Mercy
Just some business to attend to before we get started. I am now home for a month, it being Christmas and all. I am also quite sick and have a terrible sore throat. Apart from that I'm doing great.
Also, it's snowing. A LOT. I had to push a car today, I almost fell over in a road. Not the best of times.
Right onto the matter at hand; LEFT 4 DEAD 2
After the whole Tesco Entertainment debacle, I'd been itching to give this game a go, and when Robb told be that he'd got it, I was over to his place faster than a Survivor into a safe house. When I got there, he still hadn't opened it, stating he was "worried about zombies leaping out of the box" After beating him over the head with an 360 controller for being an idiot, we started up the game.
I don't have a great history with shooters. My aiming ability has never been fantastic, and I panic under pressure and end up flailing wildly around, hoping somebody chooses to walk into the path of my bullets. Having said that, I performed pretty well in L4D2, mainly because of two things; shotguns and katanas. I charged wildly through hordes of zombies, varying between blowing faces off with a combat shotgun, and slicing limbs with manic cuts of my ninja sword.
L4D2 looks very pretty and plays beautifully. At first, me and Robb had a manic strategy of shooting anything that moved. But after a while we started to work together, with me on close-range combat, and him on automatic, long-range weapons. It was really amazing to see how our team skills developed. At the start, we would leg it from any group of zombies bigger than us. By the end of our play session, we were co-ordinating tactical attacks on Tanks. As well as hitting people with guitars.
The game really won me over, and I'd love to get it. I may pick it up in the January sales and then play some co-op over XBox Live, but this all remains to be seen.
I've been playing a lot recently, ranging between Bioshock (really scary), Prince of Persia (needlessly repetetive) and Batman (excellent) as well as Wario Land 3 (it works! Also, it's great) so I may randomly post about them at some point.
But right now I'm sick. Leave me alone, y'all...
Also, it's snowing. A LOT. I had to push a car today, I almost fell over in a road. Not the best of times.
Right onto the matter at hand; LEFT 4 DEAD 2
After the whole Tesco Entertainment debacle, I'd been itching to give this game a go, and when Robb told be that he'd got it, I was over to his place faster than a Survivor into a safe house. When I got there, he still hadn't opened it, stating he was "worried about zombies leaping out of the box" After beating him over the head with an 360 controller for being an idiot, we started up the game.
I don't have a great history with shooters. My aiming ability has never been fantastic, and I panic under pressure and end up flailing wildly around, hoping somebody chooses to walk into the path of my bullets. Having said that, I performed pretty well in L4D2, mainly because of two things; shotguns and katanas. I charged wildly through hordes of zombies, varying between blowing faces off with a combat shotgun, and slicing limbs with manic cuts of my ninja sword.
L4D2 looks very pretty and plays beautifully. At first, me and Robb had a manic strategy of shooting anything that moved. But after a while we started to work together, with me on close-range combat, and him on automatic, long-range weapons. It was really amazing to see how our team skills developed. At the start, we would leg it from any group of zombies bigger than us. By the end of our play session, we were co-ordinating tactical attacks on Tanks. As well as hitting people with guitars.
The game really won me over, and I'd love to get it. I may pick it up in the January sales and then play some co-op over XBox Live, but this all remains to be seen.
I've been playing a lot recently, ranging between Bioshock (really scary), Prince of Persia (needlessly repetetive) and Batman (excellent) as well as Wario Land 3 (it works! Also, it's great) so I may randomly post about them at some point.
But right now I'm sick. Leave me alone, y'all...
11 Dec 2009
Stocking Up Shop
Tis the season to be gaming! That's right, I'm going HOME!... next weekend. BUT I'M STILL EXCITED!
In preperation for getting back on the Xbox, I am getting in a load of cheap old games to play until Christmas, which should both pass the time and boost my pitiful gamer score. So, in the fashion, let's run those games down together, shall we?
BIOSHOCK! Partially inspired by the recent coverage of Bioshock 2 (which looks very good) and also by the fact I've played it on a mate's console and it was pretty awesome. I like the idea of being able to upgrade a shotgun, and the fact I can combine that with telekinesis is basically my idea of some bizarre FPS-RPG nirvana. However, Bioshock is slightly scary and I haven't had a great history with scary things in the past. HOW WILL I MANAGE?!??
PRINCE OF PERSIA! (THE NEW ONE!) I liked the look of this game the moment I set eyes on it. I'm not entirely sure what you would call the art style (cell-shaded realism, perhaps?) but it looks beautiful. As far as I know the game got fair to good reviews, although apparently it's quite easy. For me this is a good thing. Easier games = faster gamerscore. I'm a wannabe achievement whore!
WARIO LAND 3! I am well aware this is not a 360 game, or infact a current generation game, but I was thinking about it the other day and remembering how brilliant it was. I have to say, maybe apart from Rayman and the original Super Mario Bros., it's probably the best platformer I've ever played. It's got non-linear level choices, multiple level endings, a wide range of enemies and power-ups, mashes platforming and puzzling brilliantly and has lovely visuals considering when it was released. I'm may even dig out my Game Boy Colour to play it as God intended. Although if I can't use it I'll use the SP.
This is all still a week away. I'm killing myself writing this.
Until then, this is me, a guy who HATED Wario Land 4, signing off until I make it back home y'all!
In preperation for getting back on the Xbox, I am getting in a load of cheap old games to play until Christmas, which should both pass the time and boost my pitiful gamer score. So, in the fashion, let's run those games down together, shall we?
BIOSHOCK! Partially inspired by the recent coverage of Bioshock 2 (which looks very good) and also by the fact I've played it on a mate's console and it was pretty awesome. I like the idea of being able to upgrade a shotgun, and the fact I can combine that with telekinesis is basically my idea of some bizarre FPS-RPG nirvana. However, Bioshock is slightly scary and I haven't had a great history with scary things in the past. HOW WILL I MANAGE?!??
PRINCE OF PERSIA! (THE NEW ONE!) I liked the look of this game the moment I set eyes on it. I'm not entirely sure what you would call the art style (cell-shaded realism, perhaps?) but it looks beautiful. As far as I know the game got fair to good reviews, although apparently it's quite easy. For me this is a good thing. Easier games = faster gamerscore. I'm a wannabe achievement whore!
WARIO LAND 3! I am well aware this is not a 360 game, or infact a current generation game, but I was thinking about it the other day and remembering how brilliant it was. I have to say, maybe apart from Rayman and the original Super Mario Bros., it's probably the best platformer I've ever played. It's got non-linear level choices, multiple level endings, a wide range of enemies and power-ups, mashes platforming and puzzling brilliantly and has lovely visuals considering when it was released. I'm may even dig out my Game Boy Colour to play it as God intended. Although if I can't use it I'll use the SP.
This is all still a week away. I'm killing myself writing this.
Until then, this is me, a guy who HATED Wario Land 4, signing off until I make it back home y'all!
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