And I guess I had to watch football too. Funny thing about that. I was playing Angry Birds Star Wars while watching The Birds (Eagles) lose to the Cowboys. For a while there, we were in perfect sinc: I would clear a level, and the Eagles would make a great play. Then . . . not so much. Ah well, it was fun anyway.
However, the day started with some Ticket to Ride on XBLA with my friend Mad Krammer. I lost consistently but it was fun anyway. Basically the way to win is to build a very long train line from coast to coast and then fill in with a few shorter ones later. This gets boring, so I like to make all sorts of crazy rail lines that connect in interesting ways. Doing this usually ends up with me losing the game however. But what is winning anyway? From my perspective, I won every time because I had fun. So take that competitive gameplay! Go suck an egg!
Don't get close guys, or I might have to take my knife out. Um, why can't I move now.
Then I attempted to play more Resident Evil 4 HD on Xbox live. I honestly could not put up with the controls in this game. Your ability to look around while aiming at a target is severly limited like you have on some giant helmet that impedes your ability to turn your head. Still, I managed to shoot up some sick zombie-like crazed people: I disarmed some, got some headshots (exploding watermellons anyone?), and knocked some off ledges. Inevitablly some would get in close, and I'd have to switch to my melee weapon, but I couldn't seem to move forward while holding the knife. I had to lower my guard, move forward, and bring the knife up again to strike. What a strange and unexciting way to handle melee fighting. Anyway, after a while of this, and getting wacked by zombies with longer melee weapons than me, I threw up my hands. I honestly don't understand why they didn't learn anything from the many third-person shooters that by 2005, had much better controls than this.
Gotta be aware of the gravity fields and the ricochet of blaster fire on the metal shielding.
It wasn't next on my list, but because I only had my 360 at my friend's place, I had to play the next 360 game on my list, and that was Angry Birds: Star Wars. I wasn't attracted to Angry Birds at first, but as soon as Angry Birds Space came out, I got interested. Here the space theme is added to Star Wars to make a winning combo. I love the levels where you have to deal with gravity around one or more objects. It's just neat to see physics in action.
The game features all the major areas of Star Wars Episodes 1-3. I played through desert planet Tatooine, the Death Star, and most of the ice planet Hoth levels all day and even during the Eagles/Dallas game. The levels get trickier later in the game, being more like complex puzzles that take some thought to complete than casual wreck-em-ups. There's plenty of replay value also since you can play each level for score and for collectibles. Once I play the whole game, I'll go back and try and get three stars on each level.
Tomorrow my friend Mad Krammer says there will be the new DLC for Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. I dont' know though because it says the 16th on several websites I've looked at. I'll bring over my original Xbox just in case, because I want to play Phoenix on Taito Legends and Sid Meier's Pirates. If I blast through those, I'll go back to Angry Birds Star Wars. There'll be pizza tomorrow! Looking forward to that!
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