Crackdown!

Finally got my copy of Crackdown in the mail yesterday and I promptly played it for several hours. It's quite enjoyable and I'm having a blast just searching for the orbs. I picked up 3 achievements for 30 points.

I finished the night off by playing some Table Tennis since I'll probably have to send that off in a trade on Monday. Looking at the achievements, I probably won't get any more since I don't want to play it all that much. I did pick up one achievement for 35 points though.

Silent Night

A bit of a quiet night for the ol' 360 tonight. I played some more Pinball FX and I picked up an achievement on the Extreme board. I some how regressed in pinball since yesterday and I didn't come anywhere close to my any of my high scores from yesterday. By this time next week, I'll probably play better if I give the controller to my cat.

In other 360 news, I downloaded the Forza 2 demo and I remembered by I enjoyed this game much more than Gran Turismo. The guide line they place on the track makes this a much more enjoyable racing sim. I'm looking forward to spending time building up my Mazda RX-8.

I also managed to play some of the demos I downloaded last night using the shiny, new low power downloads. NHL 2K7 was pretty fun and brought back some good memories I have about NHL '95. I've definitely got this on my radar to pick up cheap. I was also very impressed with Fight Night Round 3. I played a couple of bouts and beat the crap out of Roy Jones Jr. The game is very pretty and I feels like a great boxing sim. Again, another game I'm putting on the list.

This weekend, I'll have to dedicate some time to playing Table Tennis to get some achievements out of that game before it gets shipped off in my trade for GRAW.

Pinballed

I knew I was going to play some XBOX360 tonight since the dashboard update was coming out so once I was done getting the update I decided to check out the new XBLA game, Double Dragon. Now, I had positive memories of playing Double Dragon III back on my NES so I thought I'd at least check this out. Since it was only 400 MS points, I was pretty close to automatically buying the game. It's a good thing all XBLA games come out as demos as well...

I know it can't be just me, but why are all these "classic" games so difficult? I don't remember having a problem with these games when I was young. TMNT: The Arcade Game was down right easy and Double Dragon was pretty easy as well. Now, when I play these games I can't seem to go more than 2 minutes without dying. I've either gotten to smart for these games and try to out think the enemies or my memory is failing me.

Needless to say, I got my ass kicked by Double Dragon. I even played it with the "classic" graphics and I got my ass served to me even faster. I was frustrated and saved myself $5. Being in somewhat of a mood to spend some points, I forked out 800 points for Pinball FX. I played the demo the other day and enjoyed it, so I figured this would be a safe buy. I played all 3 tables and found the game to quite enjoyable. I can see myself playing this when I need to burn 5-10 minutes. The achievements seem to be fairly reasonable, but I've got to figure out exactly how to get them since most of them deal with completing some of the "mini-games" within the game. But, I think I'll take the lazy route for a while and just keep randomly pressing the triggers and see if I can get some achievements with just some dumb luck. This strategy is already proving itself as I picked up 4 achievements for 40 points tonight. And with that I called it a night since the Forza 2 demo wasn't out yet.

First In!

Quick intro on what this is and what's all about...You can expect to find my quest to get those all important XBOX 360 achievements. I'll probably post my conquests or lack thereof whenever I get around to it. I'm starting this to compete with the blog my 360 is already doing. I feel like I can do a better job than a stupid machine. Enjoy the quest and add me to your friends list. My gamertag is dancinns.