Friday, October 26, 2007
Time has been taken up between work, which had been becoming quite infuriating, up untill yesterday, when I confronted my supervisor with a particular grievance.... and Warhawk on PS3.Now I don't care to talk about work on here, as you never know who is reading, so... Warhawk.
Ever played Battlefield 2 on PC? Or know what it's about/like?
Same thing... only futuristic, and more fun.
For those who don't know, its an entirely online, multiplayer, team based, first person shootemup, featuring infantry, jeeps, tanks, turrets/gun emplacements, and Warhawks, which are vertical takeoff/landing jet fighters.
My initial experiences, having not even read the instructions were 'Jump into warhawk, take off, get shot down. Respawn, jump into warhawk, take off, get shot down... etc.'
After reading the instructions, I got my ratio to 1 kill per 2 deaths of my own. Not very impressive.
Last night I read several tactical advice webpages on the subject, and a brief half hour playing before work this afternoon yielded much better results. Maybe I just got lucky and found a bunch of rookies on the server, or maybe I'm just a little better than I was.
We'll see tomorrow.
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
So while we were out shopping in Doncaster this afternoon, I bought a 60Gig PS3, with Resistance: Fall Of Man, and Heavenly Sword bundled with it.The price of this pack has dropped from £425 to £350, and as the 60gig machine is backwardly compatible with the PS2, while the new £300 40gig machine (with no game) isn't... it seemed far and away the better pack to buy. Considering the 60gig backwardly compatible machine will be discontinued when stocks run out, it's something of a no-brainer to get this model.
So, what's it like then?
Well.... I started out playing Resistance: Fall Of Man, as 1st Person shootemups are something I'm familiar with, and first impressions were that given the display limitations of the tv I have it plgged into, it's on a par with good PC games of that genre.
Pretty good then.
Next I downloaded the free Gran Turismo HD demo thingie from the Sony site, and had a play on that. Visually breathtaking, it makes Test Drive Unlimited on my PC look a bit silly. It's not much of a game though... but then it's only supposed to be a taster.
So, Heavenly Sword then.
I left this one till last, coz to be honest, I figured it wasn't the kind of game I'd like... the duffer in the software bundle, if you like.
Duh!!!
How wrong could I be?
Up till now, the games have been impressive, but this... this is something else entirely.
This is the game to buy a PS3 for.
This is the game to show to you friends when they ask "So how much better than an X-Box360 is it then?"
This is the game to play when you just want to go "wow".... and keep going "wow", and not be able to turn the machine off, untill it's stupid o'clock in the morning, and you suddenly remember you have to be up for work.
Think you know what next gen gaming looks like?
If you haven't seen Heavenly Sword, you have no idea.
And remember... this is still the first generation of PS3 games. Remember how much better PS1 and PS2 games got over time.
5 years from now is really going to be something.
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Friday, October 12, 2007
It's been a while.So... umm... ok, I'm slightly less than sober, so excuse me if this turns into a daft ramble.
Big TV... no.... BIG TV... *B I G* TV...
Andrea bought a 42" plasma HD TV at a bargain price, and it arrived this week.
Did I say it's B I G?
Anyway....
I've been playing Test Drive Unlimited again, only this time, on the PC instead of the PSP.
Graphically, and dynamically, it's vastly superior to the PSP, but in terms of stability, it's terrible. Bugged to hell. I had to read several forums before I could figure how to stop it from crashing and corrupting my hard drive.
Now it's working properly though, I love it, but I wouldn't recommend buying it to anyone, simply because straight out of the box, it's just plain broken.
Hmmm....
Need more beer.
Other stuff.....
Work is work.
Planning on buying a PS3 failry soon. Maybe tomorrow... maybe after our trip to Blackpool in a couple of weeks. Depends on self control, or lack of.
Time spent in my cam chatroom at stupid o'clock for the past couple of nights has been fun.
Time spent messing around with facebook has been intersting. I like it far more than myspace. I keep my facebook page separate from all my other stuff, and don't publicise it on my websites, as it uses my real name. Look me up on there if you know what name to look for... though saying that, friend requests from people I'm not entirely familiar with will be completely ignored.
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