Met up with the same two friends as last night. Played some PGR3. I came last again. Again, by a single second on the last race. Tch.

Then we decided to switch the Perfect Dark Zero, because that allows multiple people per Xbox, so we ended up with five of us playing. Lots of matches against bots. Was really, really good fun. Graphically, it’s obviously an Xbox game given a quick coat of paint and I really don’t like the look of the interface, which reminds me of mid-nineties shareware PC games. So it’s really not very next generation, but it is damn good fun. The cover feature – where you can take cover behind boxes and walls and doors and such and then leap out to shoot people – is brillianlty implemented. And the plasma gun, whatever it’s called, is awesome. In fact, the the weapons are great generally.

After a fair few games three of the five decided to bugger off, so myself and the remaining friend did the first mission in co-op mode. I found the whole thing very, very confusing. Attacks were all coming in from above and below and I really don’t think well in three dimensions in FPSes. (How do you pluralise FPS anyway? That looks very wrong.)

I’ve also been checking out people’s gamer scores today. There’s a problem. Most games give 5-20 points per achievement and most of them mean something. King Kong, though, seems to give out hundreds of points just for being able to press the A button on the controller and other simple tasks. So anybody who’s played King Kong has a huge gamer score compared to other people. Not a major problem, but slightly odd. You’d think MS would have guidlines.

And now I’m very tired and am off to bed while the NBA Live Demo downloads.