Other random gaming stuff
So what else have I been doing since the last update, almost 1 month ago.
First comes A-Train HX, a ‘train simulator’ where 95% of the achievemnts are not based around trains. The majority can be earned by just using property and the stock market. There’s a fantastic guide over at http://borandi360.blogspot.com which explains how to do almost every achievment in the game easily. I used it and it got me about 700 points in 5 hours, always a good thing. It’s not a particularly good game, infact, some achievements are glitched, but for something to do for an hour at a time, it’s quite relaxing.
Onto Marvel:UA. I was recomended this by a few people, and I can see why. It’s a great game, I love playing games with superheros, as they’re usually good. The game provides a nice constant challenge, with the enemies growing at the same rate as you, but at the same time, they can all be dispatched by the same moves, over and over, so the challenge never really increases. The one thing I don’t understand about this game is why it’s so highly rated by it’s fans. The levels are just stupidly long, with massive gaps in between saves and checkpoints. I don’t want to die and go back 15 minutes, I want to re-appear about 5 minutes back at the most, otherwise it gets boring. That aside, it is a good game, and i’ll definatley be getting it on rental again soon.
I also came into the possession of a few MS points, and decided to spend them on arcade games, rather than RB songs for once, and I think I made a good choice. Firstly I picked up Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, after being told it was a bit of a challenge, and I like challenges, or more specificly, obtainable challenges (more on this later). I love this game, and am almost addicted to it. The randomness of the enemies is kind of a blessing is disguise as well. Sometimes, you can get absolutley raped before you even reach 5,000, and sometimes you can have a clear run all the way up to 140,000 (my highest 1st death so far). Unfortunatley, when a lot of enemies appear on screen, it becomes somewhat of a clusterfuck, meaning you can’t differenciate between you, your bullets, enemies, and shards of enemies. Muchos confusing, but muchos fun.
I also picked up Banjo Kazooie, a game originally released for the N64 10 years ago. I never really played the original, but i’d heard how good it was and intended to play it one day. It’s 1200 points on the arcade (just under a tenner) so it’s roughly the same price as buying the game for the N64. For a 10 year old game, it holds up really well, a couple of the graphics have been smoothed out which is nice, and obviously all the text dialogue has to be changed to go with the 360 controls. Rare have done this really well, but I feel that maybe I should have played it when it first came out, as I get the feeling I missed out on a truley great game at it’s peak, and i’m now just playing a very good game. I still love it though.
I’ll give a run down of some more games at a later date, but I have a better post idea coming on.
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