Achievement Obsession
Damn Microsoft and their cursed achievements. I borrowed Open Season and Eragon from the company Friday afternoon to endure this weekend...only for the achievements. My friend has just shy under 13000 and I need to catch up.
Open Season was surprisingly, uh, "charming" gameplay wise and I finished it for a clean 1000 Achievements. A few levels required a few playthroughs to earn all of the wild points, but the worst part was the weak gameplay and lame jokes. The stand-in Ashton Kutcher was weak. So glad I never paid to see the movie.
Eragon is another story entirely. I had some friends over and I forced them to play co-op with me, but after 6 levels we just couldn't take it anymore. The game was just too horrendous. I think it's safe to call it one of the worst games I've ever played. Critics agree!
I also grabbed Splinter Cell: Double Agent, but I couldn't survive 5 minutes in the first level. No on-screen prompts, no tutorial, and most frustrating was the error in the manual. Some moron printed two versions of the underwater controls, so there was no place for me to look up how to do anything. The series has always kicked my ass, so I guess it's just a good reason to go back to Rainbow Six. I prefer machine guns to all that sneaking around.
(posted by grant at 5/28/2007)
