musings while fighting off infections
Well this has been the week of doom for me. I have been diagnosed with having a double ear infection as well as a sinus infection. Fun! Then today we don’t have any heat or hot water. While I wait for the repair man, here are some musings:
Gamespot has posted a review of Blitz: The League, giving it an 8.6. I’m going to be doing a review for this game soon, and my first thought is that it isn’t an 8.6 game. I will say it’s VERY difficult not to judge this game against other football games. If you look at it as a stand alone game, it’s quite fun and addictive, however when placing it with the big question that most have — how is it compared to NCAA and Madden, it gets harder. How do you fault a sports game for a rule that you don’t know if it’s really in the game?
One of my pet peeves with Blitz is the 4th Quarter 0:00 bug. If you score a TD with 0:00 left on the clock, you do NOT get to try the extra point. If you’re betting on your game to win by 3 and that TD brings you to two….well tough shit. This same thing occurred with NFL Fever (year 1) and that really pissed me off. Then again, the Penn St/Michigan college football game never tried the PAT as they had already won. I haven’t played a game where I was down by 7 and scored that last play TD. If that happened, I would be some pissed.
I’m not sure what grade I’m going to give Blitz the league, and I’ve been playing it for a month. I’m really wrestling with it–I do know what it isn’t and I think 8.6 is too high. I should also point out that in the preview code that I have you can call audibles. This reviewer says you can’t so I don’t know if it got taken out of final code, or if he didn’t RTFM.
Well maybe I’ll go play a game and check it out again. I haven’t played lA Rush yet, but boy I really like Arcade Treasures 3. I put a shit load of quarters into Off Road back in high school and it’s still fun in a 1989 sorta way.
Using my YME subscription I’m listening to the new Depeche Mode. Love the new song, Precious….there are a couple on this album that aren’t bad, but I gotta listen to it a little more. Not much else out there for new music Tuesday. YME doesn’t give me the full Rev Run album yet, and I wanted to check that out (it is out on iTunes)….