Bah Humbug!

So, what did I do over the Christmas holidays?

What presents did I get? Well like many other people, I got one ‘main’ present and many ‘little’ presents. This year I have got what I have been waiting for years for – a PlayStation 3! It is the latest model – the 160gb model which was only launched in the UK last October. Of course I did get some games with it, here is a list, if there is not a paragraph accompanying the game title it means I have not played it yet.

• LittleBigPlanet. I also got some James Bond and Doctor Who DVDs.   Great game for little brats but not suitable for someone of my age and attention span. Good graphics and colours. Stupendously easy and embarrassing to play in front of your parents!
• Midnight Club: Los Angeles. Superb game especially thanks to it’s very high definition graphics. The cars realistically crash and drive and the actual computerized person inside moves realistically, unlike old games where you could not see anyone inside the cars. The city is realistically reproduced in computer model form but the best bit is the way the ‘camera’ moves across the city to and from different races.
• Quantum of Solace. More and more games use pre-rendered footage to join up game sequences. Yes they look good but only the first time you see it, after which when you play the game again gets boring and tiring especially when you cannot press a button to move it on. Anyway about Quantum of Solace – I only played the couple of minutes as it was very annoying you cannot see Bond while playing as on the previous game From Russia With Love. Also the camera doesn’t turn with him but stays in the same place so you cannot see where you are going. The graphics are very poor for a supposedly Blue-Ray Playstation 3 quality game.
• Tomb Raider Underworld. Very good graphics to show off Lara Crofts assets. Could be a very good game but the instructions are not that clear with random quotes and buttons popping up everywhere. Once I dived into the sea that was it for me. Once I find someone who knows how to play it I’ll give it a good old excellent mark.

 

• Fifa 09.
• WWE Showdown.
• Grand Theft Auto IV.

Yesterday I finished taking photographs of the new Stagecoach South Enviro 300s as I have finally got a photograph of all eighteen.