Red ring of death again
Only a couple of days since my Xbox has arrived back from the repair centre and I am getting a red ring of death again. It is a new Xbox they have sent me so this is quite annoying. I will be without it for at least another week now. I have just filled out the repair request on the website again so hopefully I will be able to send it off tomorrow and it will be back before the end of the week. I have owned an Xbox for almost 3 years and this has never happened once, then, I get it twice in one week. The same week that all the new games start to come out. My copy of ODST still hasn’t arrived. So much for fast air mail, it was shipped last Wednesday. It doesn’t really matter when it arrives now.
We started to play Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 yesterday, I have seen mixed reviews of it but I think it is a vast improvement on the old one. The story seems to be a lot more cohesive rather than in the first game where it felt like it had just been tacked on to the game play. With the two different story lines as well it gives a greater re-playability. There have been a few small glitches but nothing that causes a major problem to the game. The only problem that I have found is that, as a second player in coop, the game doesn’t remember my stats and achievement progress between loads. This is particularly frustrating because some of them will take a long time get and there is no way that I would be able to get them in 1 sitting or even 1 play through.
I have also now completed ODST, I was playing it on split screen since I don’t have my copy yet. I think that it is much better game and the story line is and improvement on previous Halo titles. I always felt like the story was kind of superficial to the game but in ODST it did feel a lot more like the story was an important aspect. While the game play isn’t significantly different, I don’t see this as a bad thing. Halo 3 is one of the most popular titles on the Xbox and why change it if there is nothing wrong with it. The subtle changes do make you feel weaker than a Spartan, you are a little slower, can’t just as high, have health. These small differences add up to change the feeling of the game without taking away from what made Halo 3 a great game.
I recently downloaded the demo for Batman: Arkham Asylum. I hadn’t previously looked at this, but I had seen some good reviews and thought I would give it a try. I enjoyed playing the demo and think that I will buy the game at some point. Obviously not much point now, I don’t have a working Xbox, but in a couple of weeks when I get it back I think it will bridge the gap of October between releases nicely.