Frenze 002
Ah man, it’s still fucking superb. Thanks to MattV for a lovely update to an already great game.
If you haven’t tried it already, do so now.
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A New Family Member
…and christ, she’s ugly.
With the impending release of Jeff’s Space Giraffe and thanks to the kindness of Mrs Bob, I nipped out yesterday evening to pick up a spanking new 360 to add to the heap under the television. The darn thing is nay too bad either - but I must confess to finding it one of the ugliest consoles that has graced the hallowed halls of Bob Towers. Maybe I’ve been spoilt by the elegant and sleek beauty of the Wii or maybe I just haven’t pulled the Jaguar out of its box recently to be reminded of what a truly ugly device looks like but regardless, I can’t say I’m too impressed with the design.
But of course, you don’t buy a console for the design - you buy it for the games. Slight problem with that at the moment, due to pissing away a large proportion of my budget on the wireless adaptor, I’ve only actually got a couple of games for it. I picked up the XBLA Unplugged package and Crackdown. Annoyingly, Crackdown looks like utter shit on my poor ancient goggle box - the text barely readable unless I drag myself over right in front of the television and park my arse in the middle of the floor. So much so, that I can’t actually stand to play it until we get the battered old thing replaced.
Wii Musing
Ah proof positive that you can slide any word after “Wii” and it sounds like a Nintendo product.
Chris Bateman’s Only A Game blog recently carried a rather interesting post on the shift in the gaming market caused by the Wii being unleashed upon the world. First off, I’ll let it be known that I love my Wii (oh, it never gets old!) and my DS to bits, but one can’t help notice that despite all the promises of good things to come and all the potential of the pair of machines - things have gone a little weird on the software front.
With game budgets for AAA titles on the increase, and the length of time, effort and the size of the teams required to produce these games, it comes as no surprise that a lot of publishers are now looking to the Wii and the DS with their lower specs, high install base and cheaper development costs. Surely, I should now be thinking “Huzzah! Lots of games for me to tuck into…” Read more
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