• 4Nov 09

  New Games: Ballad of **** Tony & Wallace and Gromit #2

  

  Been spending my Microsoft spacebucks lately. I bought The Ballad of Gay Tony for GTA IV when it came out and have completed it since. It's pretty good. I love the new cars, the crazy dancing and the new missions. If you liked The Lost and Damned, you'll probably like this as well. The achievements are a bit more painful this time though, I think I'll struggle to get 100% in every mission, but since it adds replayability I won't complain.

  

  I also bought the second episode of Wallace & Gromit Episodes today. Didn't have points for the third and fourth episodes, but I will eventually. I usually don't play these kinds of point and click games, but I find Wallace and Gromit to be extremely charming. Cheese!

  • Posted Nov 4, 2009 9:25 am PT
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• 23Oct 09

  New Game: Forza Motorsport 3 LCE

  

  Forza 3 is here at last, and I picked up the limited collector's edition that I preordered. Which is funny, since GameStop doesn't really allow preorders on LCEs (at least here in Norway), which the clerk pointed out. Either way I got it. When I came home I had codes for GameStop cars, limited edition content and the standard free DLC!

  

  Anyway, I've played around 10 races or so and am digging this game. It's great for car enthusiasts, especially when you're a VIP member and get the cars like Ferrari 430 Scuderia and Aston Martin DBS that "regular mortals" don't get. Graphics are awesome, not completely photo-realistic, but still mountains better than Forza 2. The community stuff is sweet, supporting screenshots and videos and uploads for both. Only thing is the servers seemed broken for a while, I had to do five tries for my video to upload and the official site gave error messages a lot, but finally it worked. Haven't tried the 720p setting yet, but 360p was decent. Maybe I'll make a montage! But I won't review it, so suffice to say I can see why it has a Metacritic score of 92/100.

  The LCE is pretty pimp, for a lack of a better word. You get a 2GB USB memory stick, which I love since I didn't have any already, and a keychain with a fancy Forza 3 metal piece. Odd thing is that the keychain is too thick for the USB memory stick to fit...

  In conclusion, the game is great, the LCE is pimp and look forward to screenshots (like the one above) and videos!

  • Posted Oct 23, 2009 1:32 pm PT
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• 7Oct 09

  New Game: FIFA 10

  So I bought FIFA 10 yesterday. Oh boy... Now I remember how much I played FIFA 08. FIFA games don't stop, and with the new Be a Pro and Manager features I'll be playing this game a lot.

  

  I decided to skip FIFA 09 since I thought it would be better to "save it", and I'm glad I did. FIFA 10 is so much more awesome than FIFA 08. More streamlined gameplay, more stuff to do... And the achievements are much better this time around, which of course is important to me. 50 000 gamerscore soon, by the way.

  All the EA site stuff from FIFA 08 has apparently carried over, so you can check out my profile here. I have some FIFA 08 and FIFA 10 videos uploaded. Still trying to get a gameface, but apparently the GameFace creator is extremely overloaded from the 1.7 million people who bought FIFA 10 last week and won't let me. I named my Be a Pro character Benny and he's playing as an ST for Real Madrid. Quite a nice start of your career, I would say. I'm playing with Real Madrid in Manager Mode and upgrading my character by doing "accomplishments", which is a form of in-game achievements that grant stat upgrades and some traits. I really love that, and you start as a half-decent character (70). Benny is a bit slow, so having him in the front of crazy fast people like C. Ronaldo is kinda weird, but it's getting there.

  Funny thing is, I really don't pay attention to football in real life...

  • Posted Oct 7, 2009 10:09 am PT
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