Just started Halo 2: I know a month late

By sup909 May 5, 2010 1 Comments

 Games 

 Halo 2

So for some reason I had Halo 2 sitting on my shelf for about three months. I kept telling myself that I would play it before XBL was cut, but I just never got around to it.So for some reason I decided to pop it into the 360 tray this week for a play-through. It is a shame I will never experience the multi-player, but to be honest I have always been a single player sort of guy in Halo.  
 
I have to say I am quite impressed at how good the game looks on the 360. It is much crisper than Halo 1 and only marginally worse than Halo 3. The story is a fun play through so far, but I have to admit that as soon as I left earth and went back to another Halo I was immediately disappointed. I would have loved to played more in the cities of earth. The mountains of Halo just seem so simplistic by comparison at this point.  
 
Anyways, it is a fun play-through that I think I am finishing up soon. I have may be three to four chapters left.  
 

Prince of Persia

I am also on my final stages of Prince of Persia as well. I can't quite say yet as to whether or not I actually like the game. On the one hand the visuals are great and the voice acting is very good. On the other hand I find the gameplay repetitive (as I did with other POP games)  and the battle mechanics frustrating. It is not so much that I have a problem with not dying. In fact I think that is a good mechanic if you are focusing on a puzzle solver, but I think I just don't find the puzzles engaging and the response times in the battles just doesn't seem snappy enough. Regardless I have resolved to myself to finish the game. 
 

Music 

 In music related news I have sort of abandoned my 5/8 track that I have been working on.  I have shifted instead to a quasi 8-bit track and I like where the direction is going with it. I should have a preview up shortly.  I was inspired by a     video I saw a couple of weeks ago where a guy was in Reason simulating 8-bit tunes. I thought to myself that; "hey, I can do that with hardware" and have so set out to do it. 

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