Minor updatage…

Psymonkee    General News    

As you might notice I have added a few links to the Blogroll ever hnar —->

If your not listed find some way to contact me and let me know!
Now I just need to edit the theme and change the default pictures – probably another 6 months work minimum but hey

Music Madness!

Psymonkee    Gaming    

Another update so soon after the last? Accidentally left the last post unpublished so it got delayed a tiny bit. How silly of me.

Anyhoo – Music Madness!

Rock Band has had some fine additional content released for it thus far (Boston Track Pack/Judas Priest Album etc.) but over the last 2 weeks something awesome has happenend. First we got a Megadeth Album (Peace Sells….But Who’s Buying) less the title track (it’s on the RB2 disc) then the following week we got some filler.

However yesterday after a delay of 1 month an awesome album was finally released! That album of course was Moving Pictures by Rush – simply a fantastic album by all accounts which brings us not only the original version of Tom Sawyer (on disc song was a cover) but also one of my favourite instrumental tracks ever: YYZ!

So awesome are those songs I’ve yet to play any of the others….

Also released were individual songs from Bad Religion, Kasabian, The Cult and The Stone Roses. Now I have what I hope is enough points for the rumoured Offspring track pack and thats me out of points again

Anyway – off to jam

Oh also head over to Nokkonwud.com and buried in the comments of the Fankoo post is a generous offer from Zico!

Bargain-tastic!

Psymonkee    Gaming    

Hmmm sort of stopped short on posting about the Too Human & Castle Crashers demo’s. Too bad.

Anyway last time I posted to this here blog I was on a weeks holiday from work. Sadly this now means I’m back at work and still hating it However there is an upside!

This week there has been a special offer in place in the Home & Leisure section of the company I work for (Morrisons.) Special offer in the fact that they were offering all PS3 & X360 chart titles at £25 – a decent £15 saving on the standard price. The only catch being that staff discount is no longer deductable from the bill. Mind at 10% the special offer in place exceeds the staff discount by a large amount.

So for the princely sum of £50 I purchased 2 games: Tiger Woods 2009 & Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. Both still holding their full price in nearly all shops. I wasn’t going to buy them until they had dropped in price but I never expected that so soon!

As the games go both are great fun and a worthwhile distraction from playing Rock Band. Expect reviews soon.

Also having made it official this past week by paying up I shall be attending the GT14 LAN (details can be found at www.gametribe.net) this October. A long drive but a cracking weekend of gaming and generally being a slob!

Until next time….

Demo’s Galore

Psymonkee    Gaming    

Yep I’m probably a few days/weeks behind everyone else but I really don’t care. I’ve just been a on little demo downloading spree and grabbed the following:

• Pure – Quad bike racing
• Too Human – Action/RPG
• Castle Crashers – XBLA Title
• Braid – XBLA Title

People seem to be generally raving about these titles and in the case of the XBLA ones advocating purchase at a massive 1200 MS Points…So I figured I’d give those 4 games a go and see if I can find a game to drag me away from Rock Band.

So far I’ve only tried one of the demos I downloaded. That demo was Pure. In one word I would have say:

AWESOME!

If you ever played Motorcross Madness on the PC way back in the late 90′s then you will be familiar with the general ideal. Infact if you added 2 wheels and changed the background music to Women by Wolfmother then there you have it – Pure.

For those of you who have no idea what I’m on about – Off Road Racing on quad bikes. Drive fast jump high and far and try to hold onto your lunch as you go off the edges of cliffs! The demo itself is quite short with just a training track and a single race event on offer but should show you enough of what the full game will be about.

The full game seems to be set to be a cracker offering 7 enviroments with 48 tracks and a fantastic 16 player online mode.  There is also a freestyle mode available where you can rack up points by performing some of the most ridiculous stunts known to man – all good.

Best bit of news? Brand new for £30!

More posts to come as I try the other games

Braid

Psymonkee    Gaming    

More ramblings from me as promised. Incase the title of this post wasn’t obvious I’ve just had a play through of the Braid Demo.

First impressions are good with an addictive side scrolling platform/puzzle game presented. Obvious nods to Mario (jumping on enemies heads, princess at another castle…) which at least made me laugh.

Of the few levels available in the trial version there is enough to keep you playing for around 30 mins and get a good taster for the game. It’s certainly addictive and has a few neat ideas. It also seems to neatly steal from Prince of Persia’s most recent trilogy with a handy rewind function.

Bizarrely this funtion allows you to pick up keys, rewind time but still retain possesion of the key which suddenly made a tricky level a piece of cake.

I’d definately purchase this if it was perhaps 800 points but at 1,200 points I’m finding it hard to justify with lots of good Rock Band DLC on the horizon (Rush and Offspring!)