It's Backlog time, baby!
It's a list of all the games I've completed since... starting this list!
Stupidly, I had forgotten to put dates on the earlier items, leading to a somewhat meaningless list of games. Oh well!
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On the PC - Finished - Really enjoyed that. A nice dose of the San Andreas craziness to brighten up the somewhat grimmer world of GTA IV. Luis and Tony, despite having the usual flaws of GTA characters (i.e. killing a whole mess of people), are probably my favorite characters the series has had so far. :)
On the Xbox - Finished - My quest to go through all five Splinter Cell games is still rolling ahead. I'm kind of surprised to see how positive the critics were with PT. I guess everyone was just wowed by the train level back in the day. Playing it now, it was apparent that the game was little more than a slightly bland Splinter Cell 1.5. Still, there were one or two highlights and the game introduced some new characters to the rich Splinter Cell fiction... Ahem. Also worth pointing out that it has some spectacularly inappropriate voice acting. It seems every guard, be they French, Indonesian or whatever had the same slightly wobbly American accent. Like the devs just plucked any old expat English speaker from the streets of Shanghai. Dubious.
On the Xbox - Finished - I was going to play Chaos Theory, but then realized that I've gone through the lighthouse, ship and bank so many times that I just couldn't face another run through. Read the Wiki entry and watched the cut scenes and level guides on Youtube. That counts as beating a game in my books.
On the Xbox - Finished - I've forgotten most of the plot to the current-gen Double Agent, so I can't really compare. Perhaps it's just my Chaos Theory fatigue, but I'd say this was one of the better Splinter Cell games so far.
On the DS - Finished - Good. Very good. Heck, the Ace Attorney games are the only reason I keep hold of my DSfat.
On the Xbox 360 - Finished - This must have been the 4th time I've gone through the single player part of this game. It's a crazy, huge budget rollercoaster of a game. Now I just need to find someone to help out on the helicopter Spec-op mission and I can S-rank this sucker. Also worth pointing out that 18 hours invested into this version of the game, none of them have been in the multi-player.
On the PC - Finished... Sort of. Did a whole lot of the last mission, only to get stuck. Killed every baddie I can find and built the temple, but didn't win. So, I watched the ending on youtube and called it a day. Classic game, man. Real good stuff.
On the Xbox 360 - Finished - "It's not a lake. It's an ocean" Really good game, that. Very much in the Remedy/Max Payne style of taking a pulpy genre and making an intense third-person shooter out of it.
On the Xbox 360 - Finished - Not bad. Not bad at all. I knew Terminal Reality could do something cool if they put their mind to it. Crazy to see how many Ghostbuster in-jokes I got, despite not being a zany fan. Also worth pointing out that I liked the game engine they had. Some really neat effects and physics in there, even if it wasn't particularly pretty.
On the PC Oh noes! Not the DRM. :( -Finally finished!- So, that's the end of my whistle stop tour of the Splinter Cell series. It's a strange one, to be sure. Perhaps I was playing it wrong, but the whole thing seemed to be centred around headshots aplenty. It was certainly slick, I'll give it that.
