Tango Down

The strange thing is that since the start of the challenge I’ve barely spent any time playing. During the first week I spent so much time trying to do some basic design stuff for this blog that I didn’t have any free time and this week I’ve just not felt like gaming. I have played bit though. Mainly trying to get into Operation Flashpoint: DR but it’s just not working. I want to like it, but it’s too tough for me. Maybe if I had time to get into it and ‘be’ the soldier it would be different but I just don’t have the patience for it so I’ll cut my losses and send it Back to boomerang who’ll hopefully replace it with Heavy Rain (Fat chance of that happening as it’s fairly new but I can live I hope).

I’ve also been giving the 360 a sort out, finally managed to get around transferring the data from the old premium to the new elite and I’ve just catching up n some downloading of demo and trials. Got around to playing Toy Soldiers which I was looking forward to last week but after playing it, it’s not what I thought. Plays like a tower defence game using WW1 style toys and you can control some of the units yourself. It’s ok, but I was hoping for a Battlefield esque game. Still it’s not as if I wasted any money on it so that’s ok. I am hearing good things about the Just Cause 2 demo so I’ve lined that up for download. I played the original in fact it was one of the first games I got on the 360. At the time I really liked it, but subsequent play through showed it as a nothing more that ok.

In term of the challenge it’s all going very well, not bought anything yet other than the rental subscription, but seeing people rave on about Heavy Rain, Sega racing and Battlefield Bad Company 2 has been giving me urges but I’m sure I can overcome them especially as they aren’t games I’d ordinarily buy anyway.