Big Weekend, Little Week

This past weekend started with a large amoutn of gaming, wich to be honest has left me a bit burned out for the remaider fo the week.  I Played through the first half of the Vegas 2 Campaign with Sprigan on Realistic on saturday, whcih was really entertaining.  I Can see it being much more difficult single player, but the co-op hits a nice balance.

Sunday & Monday were mostly spend mooching around on Skate 2, which still has me very much enthralled.  The death races are particularly entertaining in my opinion, they seem a bit more lively than the last games ones.  Probably helped by the mountain no doubt.  Anniedele also very much enjoys watching the Hall of Meat challenges, which has led to many hours of her egging me on to try and cause myself further injuries.  A particularly frustrating photo Op that left me being constantly knocked over by some idiot doing the same thing as me resulted in one pad throw and a cool down shower, after wich it was promptly crushed like every other challenge put before me!  Ha!

Tuesday saw another day off from work, and a meeting with the sole purpose of defeating a map on Expert mode in left 4 dead.  4 1/2 hours later,  we had got to the last mission, but the tank and stupid A.I. players were our undoing time and again.  I definately feel i’ve improved, especially as the Director really ramps up the size of the hordes on Expert with 3 people playing compared to 2  (Unless this has been changed slightly post patch..)  I will do this, one day.

An evening on Halo 3 finished the day off nicely, but since then i haven’t managed to do anything bar pick up New York Times Crosswords, which is good if a little tricky for my english mind.  The Way their crosswords work is quite different to what i’m used to, which added to the americanisms on offer has made some words just… odd!

Skate 2 Spotify

I’ve been using spotify for a few weeks now when i’ve been fooling around on the 360, and thought i’d see what  the playlist feature was like.  I’ve re-made the skate 2 soundtrack with all the songs available in the UK, it’s only 28 songs out of the 40 or so on the soundtrack, most upsetting is no addictive by cut chemist, my personal favorite.  

Anyway, Heres the link!

Monthy Post Update..

Another month, another lack of posts.  Still been feeling guilty about not posting more, so this is attempt to get back on track #2 – Three strikes and you’re out.

Since the last post,  despoite complaining that i had loads of games to play and needed to get through some over january, i still managed to pick up House of the Dead: Overkill, Skate 2 and Rainbow 6: Vegas 2.

House of the dead has been excellent fun, although the boss fights are way too easy compared with the arcade games (As HOTD:4 reminded me last weeekend).  It’s exceptionally cheesy, the cut scenes look pretty bad, and the plot is just odd.  But i don’t care because shooting zombies in the face with a mate or 3 is just awesome!  We haven’t unlocked the Dual wield function yet, but once we do i can see some cool High score challenges!

As for Skate 2, well it’s like Skate, which is the reason i bought a 360.  Says it all in that sentence, but to be more thorough:  I like what they’ve done with the city, it feels familiar but different at the same time.  The added tiricks offer some spice, but i’m still overly reliant on a selet few tricks most of the time.  Skating around and not doing any challenges is still great fun.  Worst thing about it i think is when you get off the board.  The idea of creating your own runs sounds fun, but often it’s simply the case of well there’s a ramp behind here and there’s an ovbious place to use it  5 feet away.  Also, the amination and controls are just awful when you’re off the board.  I still thess than 3 it though!

Vegas 2 Was really bought on a whim for some co-op play ans something a bit different to play with friends on tuesdays from Halo.  It’s Good fun, i like the sense of tension in it, and it’s been very enjoyable playing with Sprigan on Live.  I’m about halfway through the ’story’ now.