Okay so you caught me. I forgot to put the feature article up on Monday. 😛
Be that as it may, what did you play this weekend? After I picked up my Wii from Toledo, I basically spent the rest of the weekend getting accommodated to the system itself, playing both Wii Sports and Zelda. Of course, my wife and I love both titles, and she can consistently beat me in Wii Sports bowling.
Additionally I went to Burger King and purchased Sneak King for the 360. Now that I played through the first batch of mission, I can understand why Matt said on our forums that it was the worst game out of the three Burger King titles. Basically you do the same thing over and over. Each mission consists of sneaking up behind people and surprising them with food. You do this time and again, plus having to watch the king do a little flourish dance with each food presentation gets really annoying.
While agonizing about not having a PS3 or Wii yet, I played a lot of the three BK Xbox/360 games this weekend. Sneak King is indeed the worst, while Pocketbike Racer and Big Bumpin’ are surprisingly solid games well worth 4 bucks to play. Other than that I spent a lot of time exploring the new EQII expansion (which has tided me over some on the PS3/Wii situation), and reliving yet another chapter in WWII via Call of Duty 3 (which is as fun and engaging as the previous games, but really starting to show its age at this point). Also played some Viva Pinata (great game it is), Sega Genesis Collection (great as well), and dibbled and dabbled with a few other titles.
Well, what did I play?
Having the Wii, I’ve been picking up a lot of spare games with the bowling on Wii Sports. I’m actually getting worse with my Wii Fitness Age, while my brother is tearing me a new one (he’s already gotten Pro on the bowling, and close to it on Tennis). I’ve also been enjoying the Boxing (skill level of 700 now), and Tennis. So, the game is definitely some solid fun out of the box.
When I’m not playing that, I’m grinding my teeth while playing Red Steel. After some time now, I’ve gotta say…the game sucks. It’s too repetitive, the glamour of playing an FPS with the Wii-mote is wearing out on me, and the enemy AI is getting much stupider and more predictable.
Outside of those two, most of my time has actually been spent playing the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, which is just amazingly ridden with depth. I built a human prot-spec pally deck, and it’s going great. My cards are already getting worn out, that’s how much I’ve been playing.