So, today I picked up Burnout Revenge for the 360. It’s everything I like about it, only prettier. Actually, scratch that, there’s a few new annoying things that I could do without. The largest is playing on xbox live. I think I was able to finish one group of races successfully. What’s really frustrating, is that I was playing people ranked around 100, and was beating them, but then I’d get disconnected from the stupid EA servers. Once I sign back in, I notice that my score has actually increased instead of decreased. I think there’s some fixing that needs to be done there.
The other main annoyance with this version is at the end of a race. To begin with, you seem to be forced into watching the review, which I’m not a big fan of, and then you can’t skip any of the awards, achievements, or unlocked cars. Plus, during the achievement it seems to pound out your stars much slower.
Overall though, it’s still a great game, I just wish I could play more online, because from what I have been playing, it’s quite fun.
I know that Aaron has talked about Guitar Hero already, but I must put in my 2¢. “It rocks.” The game is incredibly fun.
Last night Aaron and I ran a few errands which included stopping by Crate and Barrel, and then hitting up the Best Buy. Binford actually was the one who wanted to head up to Best Buy originally, but I had a $45 gift card I still needed to use there, so I thought it would be a good idea. This is when Guitar Hero was purchased. Needless to say, the rest of the evening comprised of jamming out.
The only downside I see to it? We don’t have two guitars right now. Well, and there’s the fact that the controller isn’t wireless, but that’s already been solved. I’ve been thinking about buying a child’s guitar toy and actually making my own controller, since that’s really all these are, with the potential addition of two buttons and a wammy bar.
Hmm…
As you can see from my gamertag below, I’ve definitely been playing with the Xbox360 more and more. Unfortunately, that’s only really been from two games, PGR3 and CoD2. I haven’t even started in on NFS:MW, which looks crazy fun from what I’ve seen Aaron play. It’s crazy, there are days that I really want to just sit down and play, but when I actually can, there really isn’t enough time. Between work, working out, Erin, and Everything Else™, I can’t say I have that much time to just play. However, I am on the last section of CoD2, which means that if I ever finish it, my gamerscore should increase quite a bit (I’m playing it on Veteran, the hardest difficulty, the first time through). Plus I just purchased a 12 (+ 1) month subscription to Live!, so I can play online, which when I actually did it in PGR3, was quite fun. And then there’s more cool games that are coming out, like Alan Wake, Burnout Revenge (granted it is just a re-release), and others.
Oh yeah, and the D-Day invasion on Veteran mode, is, well, frickin’ hard.
As I’m sure everyone knows, the Xbox 360 was released on Tuesday. And you can read all about Erin and my adventure on Aaron’s site. Unfortunately, we came up empty handed. However, even if we would’ve gotten one, I think we would’ve resold it. Especially since they were going for more than double their cost.
The good about all this though, is that we will still be getting one, just probably not anytime soon. I’ve gone back to the company I had the preorder with, since it’s about the only place I fell I’ll be able to get it from anytime soon. In fact, the distributor that supplies Avindigo apparently says they should have some on Monday. Who knows if those have already been allocated though. I guess we’ll just have to wait like everybody else. I can’t wait to get it and play on the new plasma though.
Well, I have some bad news about the Xbox 360. Turns out my supplier (who will go unnamed), has just informed me that he won’t be getting any units from his distributor until December. This is unfortunate, especially since I was hoping to take a trip on the 21st in order to get one. Alas, I guess I’ll just have to try to get one at a brick and mortar store on the 22nd, along with everyone else. Maybe it will be like when Halo 2 came out, and I won’t have a problem at all. However, for some reason, I don’t think this will be the case. :down: