Resistance 2
Mirror's Edge - 360
Quantum of Solace - 360
House of the Dead: Overkill - Story & Directors Cut
Fable 2 - Story Mode
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot - (Liquid Easy)
Wario Ware: Smooth Moves
Saints Row
Race Pro - Career Mode
50 Cent: Blood on the Sand (Easy) - 360
Conan (Easy) - PS3
GTA IV - 360
Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Manhunt 2
Prince of Persia
No More Heroes - Real Ending
GTA: Chinatown Wars
Silent Hill 2 - (4 star rating, Leave ending)
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga - DS
Silent Hill 3 - (5 star rating)
Little Big Planet - Story Mode
Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Killzone 2
WET
Halo 3: ODST - (Legendary)
DiRT 2 - 100%
Halo 3* - (Legendary)
Mario Kart Wii
Quite a while without a completion for me.. (I've actually got to the last boss on Uncharted 2 and have yet to polish it off). Dusted this off last night. Suitably refreshed after an evenings drinking I managed to complete the last three gold cups I needed on the reverse championship to see the credits roll.. The first two cups went down with out too much resistance..
The last Gold cup I needed was the one that ends in 'Rainbow Road'. I got a third and a first and then had a total nightmare on the third Bowsers Castle track coming in last by a huge margin.. Managed to finish high enough on Rainbow Road to score 41 points which equalled the highest AI racer and scored me the Gold Cup!
Showing posts with label Mario Kart Wii. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mario Kart Wii. Show all posts
Saturday, 14 November 2009
Monday, 9 March 2009
Currently Playing : Mario Kart Wii
I have something of a chequered history with Mario Kart. The original game was the one that made me sell my Mega Drive and buy a SNES. It was and I guess probably still is a classic. I missed out on the N64 (although judging by the tracks that have made it into this version didn't miss much). Picked up and returned Double Dash cos it was rubbish but really enjoyed the GBA version that seemed very true to the spirit of the original.
So on to this version for the Wii. All the classic ingredients are there. There's a good selection of new tracks and some cherry picked from all the previous games (all the N64 tracks are rubbish seemingly designed to show off the power of the system rather than race well). A large roster of characters from Nintendo (including some that unlock based on what other games you've got. I got one for having played Super Mario Galaxy.) and a wide selection of karts and motorbikes.
However it's just too fucking brutally random to be much fun once you get past the early 50cc races. All the balance of the SNES game seems to have been thrown out. There's all manner of new weapons that are just plain annoying and the AI can hit you with two or three in a row meaning that you can go from first to last in literally seconds. There's nothing worse than getting hit by a blue shell that is indefensible against, then hit by lightning and then run over while your small by the AI that are rapidly catching you while you're being bitch slapped. In the old game you had to get a top four finish to move onto the next race of four in each round. This game does away with that. Finish twelth and you're very unlikely to have enough points to get the gold but there's nothing you can do apart from start again. From race one. Very annoying.
There's also the matter of the controls. In general the wheel works quite well. There's the choice of manual or automatic drift. Manual drift gives you a little speed boost when you finish the drift successfully. Which should give you a performance advantage. Sadly it turns out while it's fun to manually drift you've got far more chance of winning leaving it on automatic. Combined with the fact that you've only got one drift bumper as oppossed to the old L + R of old games and the game occassionally gets confused which way you want to drift and sends you off in the wrong direction.
Last night I finally finished the 150cc races and unlocked the Mirror Mode. Once I've finished that I swear I'll never touch the single player again. I should say it's not all doom and gloom. The multiplayer racing is as fun as ever.
So on to this version for the Wii. All the classic ingredients are there. There's a good selection of new tracks and some cherry picked from all the previous games (all the N64 tracks are rubbish seemingly designed to show off the power of the system rather than race well). A large roster of characters from Nintendo (including some that unlock based on what other games you've got. I got one for having played Super Mario Galaxy.) and a wide selection of karts and motorbikes.
However it's just too fucking brutally random to be much fun once you get past the early 50cc races. All the balance of the SNES game seems to have been thrown out. There's all manner of new weapons that are just plain annoying and the AI can hit you with two or three in a row meaning that you can go from first to last in literally seconds. There's nothing worse than getting hit by a blue shell that is indefensible against, then hit by lightning and then run over while your small by the AI that are rapidly catching you while you're being bitch slapped. In the old game you had to get a top four finish to move onto the next race of four in each round. This game does away with that. Finish twelth and you're very unlikely to have enough points to get the gold but there's nothing you can do apart from start again. From race one. Very annoying.
There's also the matter of the controls. In general the wheel works quite well. There's the choice of manual or automatic drift. Manual drift gives you a little speed boost when you finish the drift successfully. Which should give you a performance advantage. Sadly it turns out while it's fun to manually drift you've got far more chance of winning leaving it on automatic. Combined with the fact that you've only got one drift bumper as oppossed to the old L + R of old games and the game occassionally gets confused which way you want to drift and sends you off in the wrong direction.
Last night I finally finished the 150cc races and unlocked the Mirror Mode. Once I've finished that I swear I'll never touch the single player again. I should say it's not all doom and gloom. The multiplayer racing is as fun as ever.
Friday, 2 January 2009
Happy New Year Gaming Round Up!
Happy New Year 2009 to everyone!
So there's not been a huge amount of gaming so far. Little Big Planet happily arrived. Sadly still no stock of Dualshock 3s in town or indeed at Shopto.Net. However today I decided to go to Ramsey and visit the Islands only independent game retailer and see if he had one. Sadly not. Huge amounts of 360 stock but virtually nothing for PS3. Happily he did offer to sell me his own ex-demo genuine Sixaxis for £20. It seemed reasonable for a second controller and to get me back in the PS3 gaming loop (I only have two days holiday left after all), So I'll pre-order a Dualshock from Shopto and keep this one as a handy second/spare pad.
I'm struggling to like Banjo & Kazooie. More about this in it's own post.
Went to a New Years Eve party and, I suppose some what predictably, the 'just received for Christmas' Wii was brought out. I got to play Sonic and Mario at the Olypmics which I hadn't played before, but I suppose ironically, all the non-gamers had and Mario Kart Wii as well.
Sonic and Mario at the Olypmics isn't great. I found a lot of the events boring and over complicated but everyone else seemed to enjoy it despite the slow pace, the constant need to plug in and then remove the Nunchuck and the 'relatively' complicated controls.
Mario Kart Wii, at least in multiplayer, has lost none of the old magic and I would've bought that today (to get some much needed practice in) but the local independant didn't actually have it in stock.
So there's not been a huge amount of gaming so far. Little Big Planet happily arrived. Sadly still no stock of Dualshock 3s in town or indeed at Shopto.Net. However today I decided to go to Ramsey and visit the Islands only independent game retailer and see if he had one. Sadly not. Huge amounts of 360 stock but virtually nothing for PS3. Happily he did offer to sell me his own ex-demo genuine Sixaxis for £20. It seemed reasonable for a second controller and to get me back in the PS3 gaming loop (I only have two days holiday left after all), So I'll pre-order a Dualshock from Shopto and keep this one as a handy second/spare pad.
I'm struggling to like Banjo & Kazooie. More about this in it's own post.
Went to a New Years Eve party and, I suppose some what predictably, the 'just received for Christmas' Wii was brought out. I got to play Sonic and Mario at the Olypmics which I hadn't played before, but I suppose ironically, all the non-gamers had and Mario Kart Wii as well.
Sonic and Mario at the Olypmics isn't great. I found a lot of the events boring and over complicated but everyone else seemed to enjoy it despite the slow pace, the constant need to plug in and then remove the Nunchuck and the 'relatively' complicated controls.
Mario Kart Wii, at least in multiplayer, has lost none of the old magic and I would've bought that today (to get some much needed practice in) but the local independant didn't actually have it in stock.
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