King of the Iron Fist Tournament 6

After just under ten hours I have bottomed-out Tekken 6! It was a fantastic game with achievements that both challenged you and gave you some fun. The last achievement of which I needed in single player was "Gallery Completionist," in which I completed last night by completing Arena Mode 38 times (once with each character - apart from Lars and Alisa) in just over 1 hour. I then continued my venture online to complete the multiplayer achievements.

Bustin' Makes Me Feel Good!

So I have slipped off the line of playing games for a while due to working hours and being over-tired. But I have now got a handful of new games to play, including Transformer: Revenge of the Fallen, Fight Night Round 4, Ghostbusters, Mass Effect and Terminator Salvation. I have only yet to play Ghostbusters (which is not released in my country for nearly five months, but due to the American and Canadian version being region-free I imported it!), and Terminator Salvation. Ghostbusters was an amazing ride through the first level, allowing me to unlock 120 gamerpoints instantly, and I am really looking forward to playing through the rest of the game (loads up 360 to honour this), but Terminator Salvation was surprisingly worse than the film itself. And as a Terminator Buff I can get away with saying this! I played around thirty minutes worth of gameplay and when the game crashed on me I used it as an excuse to stop gameplay. I may return to it for the supposed easy 1000GS, but otherwise, no thanks!

Virtua Insanity

So I got Virtua Tennis 2009 yesterday (2 days before the release) and I have to say I am a little disappointed. It has no touch on Top Spin 3, and I do not believe it is nearly as good as Virtua Tennis 3. It is lacking in shot types and skill and the controls are not very explanatory. Like...how the hell do you do an underarm serve? none-the-less I will strive to complete career mode. I have, however, unlocked 7 achievements already totalling 100 gamerpoints. So this may be a good run for me. I would also like to point out that the statistics that are post-match are still glitched like Virtua Tennis 3. Sometimes the total points are all added up onto the winners side or they are just completely wrong (for example winning a career match of 2 games without dropping a point should not equal 9 points...). Also "First Serve Percentage" would be more preferrable than "First Serves In."

Damn you all to heck!

Okay, one massive flaw in X-Men Origins: Wolverine that I have just found was...on the way to getting my achievement to 2000 kills (I was at or around 1400) I thought I would start a game on hard difficulty to get the achievements on that level difficulty at the same time. Little did I know that it would reset ALL of my statistics...back to WSC Real 09 I think...

Ultimate Wolfgang...

I completed X-Men Origins: Wolverine today...wow...what a game that was! It had incredible battles, amazing hack & slash skills and abilities and generally kept me glued to the screen for a long time! The greatest parts were probably the boss fights, although the standard levels were fantastic and very long (which kept me interested)! I am going to attempt to start playing on hard today, and to get some more of the achievement as I have unlocked 560 points from the game already.

Feral Rage

So I continued my venture at WSC Real 09 this morning and managed to win the China Open. Shortly after this I played around 40 minutes on X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Wow; what a rush! It has an intense game-play experience, with amazing combat moves and combination attacks. You learn new moves and abilities fast and the brutality is out of this world! If I had to be picky about the game I would criticize the sound - the SFX are brilliant but the voices are hard to hear unless you have the sound up amazingly high (my television has very loud speakers at 9% volume and this is usually enough, however I needed it at 39% to hear the voices clearly). Also the graphics are incredibly inconsistent. The game-play graphics are mediocre, while the cut-scene graphics were "okay;" however the cut-scene where upon Wolverine awakens from the operation to give him his Adamantium skeleton was so good I thought it was a cut from the film until I saw the face of Wolverine. Inconsistency is a little confusing when it comes to graphics and makes you ask a few questions as to why it is like that. Overall though it has been an amazing experience to play so far, with an incredible fight against Victor Creed (Sabretooth) in the first chapter of the game. My rating - 82%

Viva La Revolution

A massive day of gaminh and a massive 815 further points to my name after wiping the floor with Civilization Revolution. However there seemed to be a glitch as I have won with all cultures and have not got that achivement, nor "all famous people." but none-the-less I have slaughtered the game and upped my ranking (hopefully)
I also managed another achievement on WSC Real 09, and that was gaining the golden Cue championship. 20gs for what seemed like a lifetime of matches!

May The 4th Be With You...

Managed to score another 50gs on WSC Real 09 by completing all the trickshots! They were incredibly hard in some stages but making sure you keep an eye on the arrows from the cue ball development should see you through in around twenty minutes easily.
It is raining over here in the UK right now so I will have a great day of gaming lined up with me testing out some of the newer games on the market. Also, if I have time later on today, I will be boosting some easy achivements. At the time of writing this I am 3 frames to 1 down in the Welsh Open (Newport) Final in WSC Real 09, O'Sullivan is taking no prisoners! May the 4th be with me...

Maximum Break!

So I finally did it - the 147 Break in WSC Real 09! A whopping 50gs to my name! 15 reds, followed by 15 blacks and then the 6 remaining colours...it was well worth it!

My advice for anyone trying to get this achievement is just to NOT play safe when you are on the roll of getting it, and ALWAYS try for the difficult pot. The key thing is to remember that cue ball position is vital.

20 Points Clear

Okay, I have played a little since I finished my shift and have merely obtained a measly 20 gamerpoints from WSC Real 09. Nevermind though, I am closer to a handful of achievements from the game, I only need complete another three tournaments to get some (I believe). I am still yet to attack Civilization Revolution and have not had a chance to tryout the new X-Men game, but I have three days off after tomorrow so hopefully a gaming marathon will move me up the rankings!

WolfgangDZ - Uncaged Edition

So I have now acquired a copy of X-men Origins - Wolverine: Uncaged Edition, and after today's shift at work may either play some more WSC Real 09 or try this baby out! I am not usually a fanboy of movie games but this one caught my eye...an 18 rating, looks like pretty cool graphics, and developed by Activision...not too much can go wrong huh? Well, we will see shortly. After The Chronicles of Riddick severely letting me down (I am a massive fan of the films) I am unsure whether to trust my instincts again...the feral instincts of the Wolfgang!

Failed 147-Break (Again...)

So again I was on for the 147-break achievement on WSC Real 09 and after I had potted 13 reds and 13 blacks I managed to miss one of the easiest pots on the 14th red ball. Well, that was a real bummer! This is the third time I have thought that the achievement was in the bag (or pocket) and again I walk home with a broken cue and a broken heart...sob. None-the-less I will attempt this again later.

No more achievements to speak of as of yet, but there will be a massive boost happening shortly I am sure!

Can Pigs Get Man-Flu?

So it is an hour before I go to work, and I can only be bothered to play WSC Real 09 as I do not have enough time for any other games at the moment, man...I feel as sick as a pig...

Chalk Scores

I have noticed that this morning my score was finally updated on my gamercard (as I left the XBOX signed in for ten minutes). I rarely sign into XBOX Live now as my internet connection is very slow, but this is being upgraded soon so hopefully I will be battling it out online again! As my score has been updated I have entered the top 500 players in my regional area again, and hopefully with some dedicated playing this week I will be able to gain some more position in the leaderboard.

Not Before Long

Finally I have managed to get some time for myself today and I have picked up WSC Real 09. I know...not A-TrainHX like I was planning and definitely not Civilization Revolution, but they may still have time to show their faces. Well I have decided on trying to get some more achievements done on this incredibly hard game, and I am jumping straight back into season mode.

Ok, so two hours of play and not one gamerpoint to add to my name. Nevermind though, I managed to get through another 3 matches in season mode so I am nearer, hopefully, a handful of achievements further on in the game!

Of Mice and Men...

So Civilization has not yet materialized, nor anything else for that matter. I may jump onto A-TrainHX this evening, I am not yet sure. I am within nine minds after completing The Godfather II as nothing is going to top that experience for a while.

Vēnī, vīdī, vīcī

So on the cards today I will have a massive stab at some points on Civilization Revolution - a game that I much underestimated after downloading the demo. It is an amazing game, and has been superbly modified from the PC-based Civilization series to suit console-play. A moral in this blog is to try out the full game before you decide whether it is your 'cup of tea,' and not to go on the basis of what a demo gives you. I may also go down the route of my new games previously mentioned - A-TrainHX, Shrek The Third and WALL-E. Games still unplayed feature - Wanted: Weapons of Fate, Wheelman, Bomberman: Act Zero, Ninja Blade, Stormrise and The Shivering Isles expansion pack for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

929 Centuries

So my games collection has risen to 190+ XBOX 360 games now, and I will not sell one of them! One day I will put them into alphabetical order for ease of use.

I have recently been on the second-hand market and purchased myself Shrek The Third, Wall-E and A-TrainHX. I believe that I can get at least 2500 total gamerpoints from these games so I will choose a day that I have a lot of free time and then attack, attack - attack! I stand at 92,915 at the present time (mygamercard.net does not seem to show my full gamerscore for some reason), and I aim to hit 100,000 points within 4 weeks. Taking into consideration the most amount of points I have achieved in one day was 28,000, this should not be too difficult.

Trivial King

Well I managed my 1000 gamerpoints on Trivial Pursuit just recently. I managed a whopping 3.44 seconds in the "Clear the Board" game, ranking myself 9th in the world, and just 2 seconds away from first place! Also I managed the maximum amount of points possible on the same game (100,800) answering all 61 questions correctly and giving myself maximum multipliers on all subjects. This game certainly has had some playability, with hardly any repeated questions yet (and probably around 30 hours playtime to far) it has been a worthwhile investment. The downside, however, was the free Movie Trivia package that was available to download from XBOX Live. I find the question so diverse and difficult one minute, then so stupidly easy and repetitive the next that I do not think it is worth keeping for myself. I do hope that the next package is improved somewhat. Overall though a great game to play alone and an even better game to play with friends or family.

Don Wolfgang

Well I played the Godfather II for another 2 hours today and finally got the full 1000 points from the game, so that makes an additional 550 points to my gamerscore today. I started to play The Chronicles of Riddick but wasn't too impressed by it so far, perhaps it will warm up when I play further into it.

I have never seen the Godfather films, but this game (Godfather II) inspired me to go out and purchase the trilogy. The graphics are nowhere near fantastic, and there are a handful of Sandbox games out on the market that would beat the Godfather II hands down on the graphics front, but the sound was awesome and the gameplay did not slack at all. In fact I find it hard these days to find games with gameplay that will keep me playing until I have completed a game 100%, and usually I drift into other games quickly, but this game was one of those magnificent few that held me up until the last gunshot! The secrets and collectibles were just the right amount, and were not too difficult to find, nor too easy. The amount of different execution moves available added an extra zing to the gameplay, and the story-line coupled with the maintaining of crime-rings made a splendid story-based Sandbox game. Keep making them like this! My rating - 85%.

The start of something new

So here I am with my, hopefully, daily blog about my gamerscore on the XBOX 360. I have gained 92,000 points at this point in time in just under a year of having my console, and now I will leave a note each time I make a boost on what I have achieved and possibly hints and tips on how you can do the same thing.