Week 7

   For this week (well, last week now) I really fancied an fps, so I was thinking of buying Sniper Elite 4, which came out last week but I didn't want to spend any money. This gave me 3 choices, all of which were last gen (though tht reallu shoudn't matter (but it does)). Firstly Boderlands: The Pre-Sequel. I think this was the last disk based last gen game I purchased as it came out long after the xbone/ ps4 release, and as that time it wasn't announced to be ported up (although I should've guessed really). I got a couple of hours in but got bored and stopped back then. Option 2, Rage. This was the last game by ID (creators of Doom/ wolfenstein/ quake) before the latest Doom game and quite a departure from their usual fare. It had fairly good reviews, but it was nearly 6 years old and the last game they made was my game of the year last year, which might make this seem hard to match up to. Thirdly, Crysis 3. I've never played any Crysis game, and this one came out right towards the end of the old consoles life cycle. I heard it's real good though. Ultimately I went with Alex Rileys' favourite game.

Rage

      Say it to my face! Rage is a post apocalyptic game where you awaken from some sort of human time capsule thing, I'm not totally sure, the story is pretty poor. Point is, you awake to a ruined world where the locals want you to help them take down 'the authority' (sans Stephanie McMahon) who will want to get their hands on you as a survivor from the past (not sure why). That's about all the story that you need to know. The game takes place in 3 types of areas. Town hubs where you do usual hub world stuff; shop, get missions, race, play a card game the developers invented (though hardly Gwent) and other hubby stuff. The second type is an over-world where you drive around in your armoured car to get from mission to mission which frankly seems extremely unnecessary and possibly just there to add hours on to the game (which I didn't take). The third is where the shooting takes place, a series of small areas that are supposedly different with the likes of a Vault, a distillery, an abandoned city and other post apocalyptic type things, but they all play the same as enclosed areas that are shaped as a big circle that brings you right back to the start after you've gotten to your objective. It's basically a game of 'go to area x, press button x, leave' and repeat. 

   So that's the basics. Elsewhere, it comes on 2 discs (3 if you include multiplayer) and I don't understand why. Granted it's not the only 360 game that came on 2 discs, but this is hardly the size of GTA V. Graphically for a 6 year old last gen game it's very impressive and I suspect that has a lot to do with the 3 discs. As for the driving fps, I find it a very strange combo. I know it's not the only game to have this pairing (Half life 2 amongst them) but it is not well applied here at all. It seems to be there to help you explore the open world, but there isn't anything to see in said open world outside of the missions and some jumps which themselves only seem to be a way to shoehorn in some aheivements/ trophies.
   Now, unpack your 1 meg ps one memory cards because you have to manual save the game. I had to repeat so much because I didn't manualyl save as it's not 1997. At least the file size isn't as big as Crash Bandicoot: Warped, because that took all the space on one card! (that's how file sizes work, right?) On the plus side firing up the 360 reminded me that the controller is unbelievably better than the dual shock 3, which is/ was trash. Also, on 360 you could set your console to play every game inverted so I didn't have to change it every time I booted up a new game. Can't do that on the Xbox One.

Horizon is on the... way. one week to go.

Completed

Mekazoo

Bastion

Sound Shapes

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

Pony Island

Undertale

Mighty Morphon' Power Rangers Mega Battle

Batman: A Telltale series

Super Mario run

Ratchet and Clank into the Nexus

Westerado: Double Barreled

R-Type: dimensions

Dead Rising 4

Little Big Planet 3

Ratchet and Clank: The quest for Booty

Rebel Galaxy

Rage