I know I've been a tad slack of late posting - I'll try to do better!
Anyway, the first reviews have started appearing online for Uncharted 2 and it seems that the game if basically Uncharted with all the (few) niggling little faults fixed... Which is a good thing considering that the original is still one of the best games out there for the PS3.
Uncharted is currently my most anticipated game for the 4th quarter, and I'm looking forward to playing it come my birthday on 7 November.
Joystiq have helpfully posted a collection of reviews here:
Joystiq review scores collection
To tide me over the Uncharted beta has gone live, so shall download this and give it a go tonight.
Other news:
- Have also ordered myself a 64gb itouch
- Cleaned up decapitated mouse (thanks to our cat Saffy) from the hallway this morning
- Seriously not impressed by the MAG beta
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Decadance and Beatles: Rock Band
Film Watched:
Tokyo Decadence
Shock value does not a good film make. Not interesting, not entertaining, not good.
3/10
Okay now, so I’ve had The Beatles: Rock Band for over a week now (and the remastered box set) so I thought I’d take a moment to quickly post my take…
It’s good… It’s very, very good. It’s so good in fact that I have trouble dragging myself away from it.
That is, however, stating the obvious. A Rock Band game featuring the music from The Beatles was always going to be good. As such, I thought I’d jot down a few of my niggles.
1) It is meant to be a homage to the history of The Beatles, and as such, you would imagine that it would try to be accurate. It isn’t however. A few things that I’ve noticed:
- Ringo is playing drums on Dear Prudence and Back in the USSR, when in actual fact it was Macca on drums for those 2 songs (Ringo left the band for a short spell during the White Album).
- As far as I am aware, I Want You (She’s so Heavy) was never played during the Abbey Road rooftop concert (this was from Abbey Road and not Let it Be and as such was written after the concert).
- The audience members in the Budokan Concert should be Japanese (and a lot more restrained). Instead the same audience member from the other concerts are used.
- Quite obviously, any mix track from Love does not accurately represent The Beatles during their recording days (I’m referring to Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows)
- Eric Clapton isn’t present during While my Guitar Gently Weeps
2) I’m sure the note chart isn’t quite right for Back in the USSR – having played at least the start of the song on my own guitar.
3) Because of the nature of their songs, and the timeframe in story mode, the difficulty level is all over the place.
Apart from the above, I have very little to complain about, and look forward to the Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper and (especially) Rubber Soul DLC incoming in the next few months.
Oh also the remastered boxset is uniformly excellent.
Tokyo Decadence
Shock value does not a good film make. Not interesting, not entertaining, not good.
3/10
Okay now, so I’ve had The Beatles: Rock Band for over a week now (and the remastered box set) so I thought I’d take a moment to quickly post my take…It’s good… It’s very, very good. It’s so good in fact that I have trouble dragging myself away from it.
That is, however, stating the obvious. A Rock Band game featuring the music from The Beatles was always going to be good. As such, I thought I’d jot down a few of my niggles.
1) It is meant to be a homage to the history of The Beatles, and as such, you would imagine that it would try to be accurate. It isn’t however. A few things that I’ve noticed:
- Ringo is playing drums on Dear Prudence and Back in the USSR, when in actual fact it was Macca on drums for those 2 songs (Ringo left the band for a short spell during the White Album).
- As far as I am aware, I Want You (She’s so Heavy) was never played during the Abbey Road rooftop concert (this was from Abbey Road and not Let it Be and as such was written after the concert).
- The audience members in the Budokan Concert should be Japanese (and a lot more restrained). Instead the same audience member from the other concerts are used.
- Quite obviously, any mix track from Love does not accurately represent The Beatles during their recording days (I’m referring to Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows)
- Eric Clapton isn’t present during While my Guitar Gently Weeps
2) I’m sure the note chart isn’t quite right for Back in the USSR – having played at least the start of the song on my own guitar.
3) Because of the nature of their songs, and the timeframe in story mode, the difficulty level is all over the place.
Apart from the above, I have very little to complain about, and look forward to the Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper and (especially) Rubber Soul DLC incoming in the next few months.
Oh also the remastered boxset is uniformly excellent.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Withnail, District and ipod
Films watched:
Withnail and I
Withnail and I
An overrated British drama, with great characters but very little else.
5.5/10
District 9
A fantastic sci-fi film that flicks between mock documentary and action drama.
8/10
I also think that my ipod is aware that the Beatles back catalogue is due to be reissued tomorrow as remasters. The reason you ask? It’s because my ipod has chosen this point in time to start acting up. It now has trouble synching with our home PC and sometime tracks will skip, or freeze, sometime the battery indicator will show low (even when I’ve only recently charged it) and on occasion it just switches itself off. Admittedly it is now a good few years old and has been used on an almost daily basis, but still I don’t fancy the thought of having to buy a new one at the moment…
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