Astonishingly I didn’t get much gaming in at all to tell you the truth. My wife’s parents came to visit, so besides some WoW on Friday night, Saturday was spent cleaning the house, entertaining her parents, and then attending a party for one of Amy’s coworkers who is moving back to Italy.
I did get to play some more Trauma Center: Second Opinion though and I’m a little disappointed at how the game took a hard left turn at the end of the second chapter. It went from setting bones and removing cancer to destroying weird micro organisms given to people from some terrorist organization. Being from Japan, I kind of expected something like this to happen along the way, especially after seeing some creepy looking spirit/monster thing in the opening cut scene. Oh well, it’s still a neat game.
I also tried my hand at the demo of Assault Heroes, an Xbox Live Arcade download that released last week. Out of all of the games that have released on Live Arcade over the past few months, Assault Heroes is actually quite good. It’s a classic scrolling shooter where you’re in control of a dune buggy type vehicle and navigate through each level, shooting enemy units with one of your three weapons and picking up enhancements along the way. You can play the game by yourself or with a friend which is also pretty neat and probably makes some of the more difficult missions easier.
So what did you play this weekend?
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A lot of Heroes of Annihilated Empires, as to finally get that finished off. It’s an incredibly long game, but definitely worth it. Also started playing through Safecracker (a cool PC puzzle/adventure game), Small Arms on the XBLA (it’s a complete Smash Bros. knockoff, but is simple fun despite some control issues), and continued with the superb MGS: Portable Ops.
I’m planning to download Assault Heroes at some point, so it’s good to hear that it turned out pretty well- the trailer for it looked like a lot of fun. I really want to dig into the full version of Roboblitz as well- the demo left me with mixed feelings, but I want to see how the whole game comes together.
Also took a final stab of luck at finding a PS3 early Sunday morning since there were rumors that stores would be holding stock until then for the last major shopping weekend of the year, but no place around here even got any in. A bunch of stores got in Wiis Saturday night though- Best Buy had like 20-30 available Sun. morning I think, at least from what I counted of the people waiting in line with tickets in their hand. A nearby Target got 15 as well.
I’m on a real WoW kick lately, so I played that. Resistance, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, and Sudoku Challenge. I actually have reviews to write for 2 of those 4 games – I better get on it!