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• 23Mar 08

  Completing Rainbow Six Vegas 2 twice within 60 hours, minus 1 achievement.

  So yes - when I purchase games, I make sure I complete them straight away. Not because I want to tell people "I'm the greatest", but to prove to myself how much of my brain I'm actually capable of using...

  Now, my first impressions of the game - extremely impressive. The firefights are even more intense and enjoyable, and the sprint feature blended in with the thermal feature make it quite a fulfilling game.

  The length of the game didn't really put me off any, primarily because it's a sequel. I don't expect anything overly groundbreaking. I just expect a game I can really get into - and that's exactly what I found.

  I laid in bed the morning of the 20th and by chance happened to wake up the second I heard the Amazon.co.uk packet fall to the floor (£5 cheaper when pre-ordering - although I will be shelling out the full £40 for GTA IV, because they're including 4 gamer pics and 500 Microsoft points with the pre-order). I put the game in, started on my character, familiarised myself with the new A.C.E system and completed Story Mode on Normal - within 24 hours (really took me 6-7 hours - but I'm recording in terms of from when the game arrived).

  When I completed Normal Mode, i went straight into Realistic Mode, and the very 1st thing I noticed was either this game was much easier than the 1st, or it was just the fact that I had gotten even better at games. I guess all the sniping in Team Fortress 2 really paid off lol.

  I only started to feel the mode kick in once I came to a level where you're basically a lone ranger. But alas, I survived, and finally completed the game - again - within 60 hours of it arriving.

  Now for everyone who has Rainbow Six Vegas 1, you're all fully aware of the Realistic Story Mode achievement. But, for some strange reason, I don't have this achievement. It is nowhere to be seen.

  One of my Live buddies has it, and another has the Terrorist Realistic achievement, so I assume he has the same problem (never really known somebody to do Terrorist missions before the Stroy)

  Don't know whether I want to call up Ubisoft so I may just join the website, but in addition to this update:

  
  --Nearly completed Burnout Paradise. I've got 177 of 120 Billboards, as well as 393 of 400 Smashes. Tut tut...
  --I traded in NFS Carbon for the PS2 in. Got £3 for it. Bloody brilliant isn't it.
  --I DIDN'T trade in Oni for the PS2. Because they told me it was worth 1p. Friggin' brilliant again isn't it...
  --I'll be on XBox Live from 25th March onwards for a year. So check what games I have if u wanna play (I do not have COD4 or Halo 3 lol)

  Signing out.

  • Posted Mar 23, 2008 10:50 am GMT
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• 20Jan 08

  Half-Life 2: Episode 2 -- Yes. I actually did the gnome achievement.

  I'll tell u what kind of person I am when it comes to games. I'm the type that knows that game designers put crazy stuff all around the place in games (Example: Half-Life Ep 1 -- you'll notice there are quite a few red bicycles for some reason)

  So anyway, Alyx goes trying to get something to work - like she does. So I'm searching under the table and I find this gnome. Now this was by sheer luck - I thought to myself "this must have some relevance - kill somebody with it perhaps?" - ha, I wish...

  So I Googled it. And my God I couldn't believe there was such an achievement.

  If u have no idea what I'm on about I'll tell u. At the very start of Half-Life Episode 2 there is a garden gnome under a table in a control tower/room. The achievement sypnosis states "Shoot the garden gnome into space." Now ur first instinct would be to shoot it up with ur gravity gun. Oh no my friend.....

  U have to escort this little critter - right - to the end - of the game. And put him in the rocket to blast him into space. Which means the most complex gaming u could ever fathom. I'm talking shooting him in the right places, leaving him in the right spots, driving EVER so carefully with a watchful eye on him...

  I wouldn't ever say something like this was worth doing - but it's an experience none the less. So all you Orange Box folk - try it :-) lol

  P.s: I also did the "Complete Ravenholm using only a gravity gun" achievement. Never has running in Half-Life been so life-threatening.

  • Posted Jan 20, 2008 4:34 pm GMT
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• 16Dec 07

  A New Layout & An Addiction For PGR4...

  I actually would understand why people would hold Need For Speed: ProStreet in one hand, PGR4 in the other, and ditch the ProStreet. Cos if there has ever been a racing addiction for me since Most Wanted it's this.

  Arguably the most epic game intro I've seen thus far, PGR4 really hits the nail on the head in regards to what a racer should be like. The cars are great, the bikes are greater, the tracks are beautiful and the weather effects are incredible.

  Being from London, it's quite a feeling racing on a track that is set out exactly the way the actual city looks. Microsoft and Bizarre really outdone themselves with this one. Expect a review from me soon.

  Oh yea - The Orange Box arrived. Currently watching the case while I pwn thru this game. I am that serious lol

  I probably will do a blog before the 25th but Merry Xmas to all if I don't get around to doing so. Got a big phone bill to pay :-(

  Enjoy the new layout :-)

  • Posted Dec 16, 2007 5:38 am GMT
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