Currently murdering his way through the environs of New Orleans is Peter. Assassin’s Creed Liberation is “taking a while to get through” but you should expect a review before too long. “So far, it’s quite impressive”, says the boss, “certainly not up to the standards of its home console counterparts but definitely an enjoyable take on the series for a portable console”.
He’s also managed to find a bit of time for Forza Horizon, which he’s had since release but not had time to play before. “It’s really, really good. The soundtrack is fantastic and the driving in Forza is always absolutely top-notch.”
Peter Molyneux’s Curiosity has been the subject of some dabbling too. Our own Peter finds the concept “really interesting” but at the same time “incredibly difficult” to get excited about. “I think the fact that there’s only one ‘winner’ and there are hundreds of thousands of people playing means that my odds are way too narrow to dedicate much of my time to what is, essentially, a huge collaborative stress toy.” I’m going to guess he doesn’t play the lottery either then.
Alex has played through F1 Race Stars for review and can’t get past the fact that “the steering lock seems to be about a third of what it should be”. One of the inevitable consequences of that is that “slamming into walls unless you stop like you’re taking a hairpin” becomes all too common an occurrence. “That isn’t my idea of fun”, says Alex, “if that was fixed, the game would be great”.
In what is something of a theme he’s also “chipped a few blocks away at Curiosity” in addition to digging out his PSP for a bit and having “a few goes” on iOS word game du jour, Letterpress.
[drop]While he’s not had a lot of time for gaming this week Blair has found the time to play through The Walking Dead game.“It just keeps getting better and better”, he tells me, making me feel even worse that I’ve only played the first episode so far. “It’s got a chance at my personal GOTY if episode 5 delivers as much as the previous episodes have.”
He’s also been tapping away at the Curiosity cube. There was momentary excitement as the second layer unlocked at the same time as he hit the last block on his screen.
“I’m not sure if that’s coincidence or if I actually did hit the final block.” I’d bet on the former. Even if it was the latter there’s no prize for helping someone else on their journey towards the centre.
FIFA13‘s career mode has been taken up the bulk of Chris’ gaming time. Old favourite Warhawk returned to sink its talons back into his gaming nervous system once more. “Having been absent for a while it was a bit of a struggle to stay alive for more than half a minute, but it wasn’t long before I was back in the swing and rising up the rankings back to my usual somewhere in the top 3.”
Aran finished the “brilliant” Max Payne 3 despite the “stupidly hard” final mission. “Took me at least 20 retries before I got down what I dubbed Death Terminal. Also it didn’t help that there’s a glitch where Max gets stuck in cover so you have to restart the checkpoint you’re on.”
He’s also still working on reducing his per-level kill count in Dishonored. It’s down from about 15 to 2 or 3 now and he senses that there are only a few more levels to go and is “looking forward to how it concludes”.
It’s not been in good week for glitch-free gaming in Aran’s house this week as FIFA 13‘s been causing him some trouble too, though he doesn’t say whether he’s written to Watchdog on the subject. Ultimate Team mode has been keeping him entertained though he’s “struggling a bit in Division 4”. He partly blames that on “the servers glitching after I had won a match 7-2. The servers decided I had actually left the match early and my opponent got a 3-0 victory. Stupid glitches.”
Confusion reigns on Tuffcub’s gaming couch as he tries to pin down exactly what Asura’s Wrath is. “I am about four hours in and I am still unsure if it’s a game or not. It is structured very oddly, each ‘level’ goes like this:
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- Preview of the coming level, complete with sexy lady telling you what happens.
- About 5 minutes of cut scenes.
- A bit of actual gaming, lasts about 5 minutes.
- Two static images of what has happened so far.
- An extended cut scene/quick time event.
- More cut scenes.
- Four pages of artwork with voice overs to continue the plot.
“It is very weird, it seems to have been structured like a cartoon, complete with a place where an ad break would go. I am enjoying it, I’m just not sure what I am enjoying. The story is fantastic (if rather bewildering at some points) and I could almost do without the gaming bits and watch the whole thing as a movie.”
You may have read that he’s been playing WRC 3 and MUD – FIM Motocross World Championship on his PS Vita, while 007 Legends and Assassin’s Creed: Revelations have also enjoyed some screen time. “I also spent five minutes tapping that stupid Curiosity cube before getting bored and drawing huge cocks on the side.” Quite.
Has your Curiosity got he better of you or have you been avoiding Molyneux’s self-indulgent social experiment?
yogdog
Ok, so… here goes.
-Completed XCOM: Enemy Unknown on Normal Ironman difficulty, next up is Classic Ironman
-Got my first tier 10 (E-100) on World of Tanks, next up is the tier 10 German Tank Destroyer (Jagdpanzer E-100) which I’m only a day or so of grinding from unlocking. Also up to tier VI on the American Medium and Russian Heavy lines, tier V on the Russian Artillery line, and tier VII on the French Scout line. About 8 days of playtime now since I created my account on January 21st 2012.
-Started to play through the Command and Conquer Generals campaigns on Hard difficulty, really fun. Got the GLA and USA ones done, just need to complete the final mission on the Chinese one before I move on to Zero Hour.
-Started to play Medal of Honour: Warfighter and realised how shit it was and didn’t enjoy it in the slightest, so passed on an attempt to even finish the game, nevermind plat it. After loving and platting Bad Company 2, Medal of Honour and Battlefield 3, this is a massive disappointment for me.
-Finally won my week long (in terms of an hour every here and there for a week) battle against 7 hard AI in a free for all on Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion on a huge map. Was great fun, the AI was for once really tactical and I had some points where I though ‘oh fuck, what do I do now?!?!?!’ but managed to win in the end. TEC ftw!
-Completed FTL for the second time with the Kestral, great ship to use if you get the right setup. Will continue playing it now and again, need to unlock a few more ships.
-Completed my Evil campaign on Age of Wonders, next up is to finish off the good campaign. Old game, but has stood the test of time amazingly well.
-Completed my domination of the galaxy with the Drengin and Yor Collective on Galactic Civilisations 2: Ultimate Edition. Only put the AI on normal difficulty as on this game they are INSANELY hard to beat on anything higher than that. Almost as if they know what you’re doing as you do it….
-Completed the original Dawn of War 2 on Primarch Difficulty quite easily, next up is Chaos Rising which has already shown itself to be significantly harder. Will definitely finish it at some point though.
-Finished Metro 2033 on Hardcore Ranger (or whatever the equivalent is as I did it a while ago now) difficulty, was intense at points but loved to stealth my way through missions despite how hard it was at times. No guides used here, just wits (for once). Bit pissed the achievment didn’t pop up though as I was in offline mode on Steam at the time…
-Gradually working my way through Dark Matter mode on Eufloria, brilliant game that I load up when I feel like relaxing here and there. Still involved a lot of strategy on the later missions but the very minimalist soundtrack and visuals, which are still striking and poignant, really do have an effect on me. Cannot recommend this enough.
-Tried to get to grips with Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition and failed completely. Less said about the game the better, needlessly complicated game and this is from a guy who loved playing Warhammer with the miniatures and has played games for years.
-Finally, I managed to build a stable and thriving Western Roman Empire on Rome: Total War Barbarian Invasion on Very Hard difficulty. Holding back those Barbarians with a tiny budget was really hard and dare I say it, probably the best achievment I’ve done on a TW game.
Right, think that’s everything! :P Need to actually continue playing Dishonoured and Borderlands 2 but I think Blop’s 2 will be the game dominating my week off next week. Zombie mode!
wolf-OF-chaos
WOW. that’s along,interesting list.
yogdog
Yeah, it was done over a month though :)
Sympozium
I don’t get why Budokai 3 is deemed the greatest DBZ game ever, the Rock paper scissors thing makes it so annoying sometimes, but still the HD enhancements for both games are great, hope they do a Tenkaichi HD Collection. Seriously the most fun and best of the fighting genre in my experience. Shame they ruined it on PS3/Xbox.
Just got GT5 again for some reason thats the 3rd time. Just playing the seasonals and going at the practice.
Sitorimon
Having completed Asura’s Wrath and currently working through the DLC – I think its one of the best experiences I’ve had on the PS3. It’s like I’ve taken part in a whole Anime Series as the main two characters.