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Modern Warfare 2 spec ops is great fun w…

Modern Warfare 2 spec ops is great fun when you have friends and family over. MW2 multiplayer may have it’s problems but today all my family and in-laws were over to celebrate my son’s birthday. A few games of spec ops was called for with so many games players in the house! 🙂

On the bridge level I beat my personal best with a time of 5:17 which is probably crap but I’m not being overly competitive when I play those games. Great day, great fun, great people, great chocolate and raspberry cakes from Heaven’s Cakes!

I dodged a roadkill death last night in …

I dodged a roadkill death last night in Battlefield Bad Company 2. As a defender I was shooting at a UAV from afar when I ran low on ammo for the M60. I ducked behind cover to reload and something made me look around while doing so. There was the UAV hovering by my shoulder!
In a panic I switched weapons and unfortunately only darted the vehicle (30 points, thank you!), switched back to my LMG and with a few bullets left in the gun destroyed the ~~flying bug~~ UAV!

Dave and myself played a few games of Battlefield Bad Company last night. They were very tough. We need more PS3 players to join us in our squad as the two of us are definitely at a disadvantage. As attackers in one game we just barely managed to take the base with about 7 tickets left. In another game on Isla we defended but were totally overrun on all but the very last base.

On Arica Harbour we had some fun attacking the second bases. We spawned just as other squads in our teams took the tanks so Dave got into one of the light transports and I hopped on the gun. We raced down to Alpha in the town where we tried unsuccessfully to blow the door on that crate with grenades. We failed miserably. Dave shouted, “Let’s go for Bravo!” and we dashed across the road. He set the charge and we raced upstairs, I stayed at the top of the stairs with my sights on the crate and sure enough about 4 enemy soldiers came in to defuse the bomb. None of them managed it and we got Bravo! We eventually got Alpha and I think won that game.

My KDR is nothing to write home about but my win/loss ratio has crept back up to 1.00 which I’m happy about.

PS. I just remembered. My brother in law Mike had a go of the multiplayer game earlier and while his team won the game his KDR didn’t help my stats! I’m partly to blame though, I kept telling him, press B, press B, press B when he was using a PS3 controller … In other news, I lost the game I joined when I was showing him the ropes. I was fuming when I got into an Apache helicopter, shouted at my squad to come back and join me and I didn’t hear a peep from them. Someone from another squad got in with me!

X Scorch 360 Review

Joystiq reviewed the X Scorch 360 I mentioned previously. It’s a mouse and nunchuck device you can use with the Xbox 360 (or PC) that takes the place of the Xbox controller. I would dearly love if consoles support mice and keyboards as gaming devices so I had high hopes for this.

They weren’t too happy with it unfortunately.

The frustrating thing about the X Scorch from Bannco is how close the odd split-controller and mouse combo comes to being really great. As you’ll see in the video, though, the controller, compatible with Xbox 360 and PC, is all but impossible to recommend at $79.99.

Read the comments on the review however, lots of the settings are configurable on a PC so perhaps they’ll do a follow up review.

I’m all excited about Halo again. http:…

I’m all excited about Halo again.

I thought that Halo ODST was a pile of pooh. I enjoyed the campaign in Halo 3 but never played either game multiplayer which appears to be where these games really shine. Shame about ODST but Halo Reach and all it’s game modes and match making could rock online play. Watch the vide above and you too may become as enthusiastic as Anthony is for the new Halo game.

Now I’m glad I got ODST, it has an invite to the beta. 🙂

Way of the Exploding Grenade

When you’re just not up to playing Bad Company 2 online, fire up the single player game and start the first mission again. In that square where you first come across an enemy tank there are 2 ammo refills.

When you’ve taken care of the tank and accompanying infantry there’s something very relaxing and soothing about blasting seven shades of sh*te out of the surrounding buildings with a 40mm grenade launcher.
With a little patience you can earn a demolition trophy for the first house and then wander around as you do your best to demolish all the other overpriced housing nobody wants to buy because there’s a recession going on..

Oh, there’s another trophy for destroying 50 buildings but that might take a while.

Smoking kills, I should know because I k…

Smoking kills, I should know because I killed an enemy in Bad Company 2 with a smoke grenade. Bet he was surprised!

Tough battles tonight. The other team were well organised and we lost 3 and won 1. Or maybe we were just crap? I doubt it because we got best squad at least once and we were top or near top of the leaderboard too.

Thanks to Dave, CavScout and RunAwayPancake for all their excellent team work. I stayed on way too long! Half an hour, that’s all I was going to play. Two hours later …

I did unlock the recon motion sensor, the MP-412 and the advanced optics for the tank, received the “Squad Teamwork Ops” award though. In a brief game on the Xbox earlier in the evening I unlocked the mortar and had the good luck to join a game on the winning side!

Tracer darts are a lot faster in Bad Com…

Tracer darts are a lot faster in Bad Company 2 post-patch so if you’re flying a helicopter make sure you have smoke to disable any tracer. Seems to be some concern that smoke in the PC version doesn’t work unfortunately. There’s also flares. This tutorial suggests,

The Blackhawk has anti missile flares that can be deployed by using RB if you have V ALT WEP equiped. This greatly increases its survivability because it makes it nearly impossible to hit with missiles if you spam your flares.

Geoff demonstrates removing tracers from a heli with smoke.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 Trailer

I loved Super Mario Galaxy. It’s the best game I’ve played on the Nintendo Wii (ok, maybe COD WAW was better, I loved that game too!) and even though I got stuck in the level where you have to do some serious jumping I’m really looking forward to the sequel. Looks like more of the same but that’s a good thing when it comes to this game!

Patched Bad Company 2 Weapon Stats

I wish Den used WordPress to blog. It’d make it easier to keep an eye on updates to his Bad Company 2 weapon stats. He has updated the stats to reflect changes in the patched PC version this morning. Compare these stats to the old weapon stats I posted a few weeks ago.