Last night I was pretty pissed to be stuck playing Marvel: Ultimate Alliance while everyone else on my friends list was enjoying Gears of War (Thanks Gamestop!). After spending a few too-short hours playing a little multiplayer and a little singleplayer, I understand what the fuss about this game was all about.
It’s taken me [...]
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Holy Crap - Gears of War Rocks
10Nov06Marvel Ultimate Alliance
02Nov06So, despite my local Gamestop employees best efforts to keep me from playing the game (”No sir, all eight copies behind the counter are preordered by people who haven’t been able to pick up their copies in the last five days”), I’m about two hours into Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and while it isn’t going [...]
Splinter Cell - WTF?
30Oct06I finished the new Splinter Cell game on my 360 this weekend, and while I really dig the new “Double Agent” gameplay, where you have sets of conflicting goals for each mission–both the NSA and the terrorist organization you’re infiltrating will tell you to do stuff, and you actually have to make tough choices. [...]
Franchise whoring ^2
22Sep06 Take two massive franchises and put them together, what do you get? One helluva fun franchise all it’s own. I loved the first Lego Star Wars game, and the second one is even better.
Sure, it’s really, really short. The graphics aren’t so hot. And, it’s a damn kids game, but I honestly had more [...]
Vindication!
22Sep06 I knew there was something up with the first few shipments of Xbox 360s. Microsoft’s repairing all the pre-2006 Xbox 360s for free, and refunding the payments people for people who had to pay for out of service repairs.
Here’s the quote:
As part of our standard and ongoing process of analyzing repair data, we recently [...]
11,753
09Sep06That’s the number of zombies I had to kill in order to finish Dead Rising, which is far and away my favorite Xbox 360 game so far this year. It’s a strong contender for my favorite game on any platform. Of all the games I’ve played this year–and the list is very long–ranging from BF2 [...]
Another one bites the dust
07Sep06Back in February, my first Xbox 360 stopped reading discs properly, but five short days later and I was back in business. Keen-eyed readers might remember that I mentioned I was having some crashes in Dead Rising a few days ago. Tonight, the other shoe dropped, and the 360 totally conked out. Luckily, I [...]
Dead Rising is crashing
01Sep06Wow, what a drag. I’ve managed to change my play style to suit the Dead Rising savegame system, I’ve killed almost 8000 mindless zombies (and about 15 psychopaths), and when I get to the end of the game, my Xbox 360 hangs. That’s not a good sign. It looks like a heat-related issue, there’s visual [...]
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