While I am sitting here watching the Ghost Hunters Live event on the SyFy channel, I decided to try my hand at this wonderful thing called multi-tasking. I hear it does wonders for people. Anyways, a few days ago I already announced that I became an Xbox Community Ambassador. Since you already know about that I will completely skip over that and head for the flight deck.
About a week before Kinect Sports Season Two was released everyone was going to get Battlefield 3 and I wasn't. Well, technically I didn't get it, a family member did and I ended up playing it. The campaign was good, I liked it; you really have to play it tactically...if that makes sense. You can't go in all Halo like thinking the enemy can't kill you and you can just nail them with a shotgun...although at times it does work. It is hands down the most realistic game I have played, the weapons actually sound like their real life counterpart. Which makes me very happy. I did feel though that the campaign could have been a little longer, but it does get the story through. I also wish you would have been able to use more vehicles during the campaign. The level Going Hunting is a very fun level as you get to partially fly a jet, but it needs more of that I think. After I had completed the campaign I decided to hit the multiplayer and give it a shot. Well...that was after EA's servers had decided it woud let me. After they did decide to let me join a server and play some games I got stuck playing this gametype called Conquest. In my first two or three games of it I had no idea what to do so I just ran around the map following my teammates. Yeah that probably wasn't the best idea either as they seemed to have a magnetic attraction to RPG's. Once I found out what I was doing and that each team had a set amount of "tickets" that were depleted with each death on one team. Oh yeah, you could also deplete said tickets by capturing certain points on the map. Think of a cross between a modified slayer variant and Territories from Halo. Plus if one team controls over half the points on the map the opposing team starts loosing tickets automatically. It's an interesting gametype and I find it fun at points.
I also had an interesting time flying a helicopter in a game of Conquest. I know how to fly a helicopter in most games and it's pretty straight forward. You sometimes use the left and right triggers to ascend or descend and use the left stick to move around and the right one to look. Well in BF3 it's a little different story. The triggers are still used to control your altitude, but the right stick controls your pitch, yaw and roll. Wait...what? That's exactly what I was saying when I hopped into the pilot seat. About twenty seconds into the game I was about 50 feet above the ground so that's a plus...wait is that a hill coming up on my right? Dear God it is! Once I start hovering over said hill I gently set it down ontop of it. Okay, not bad I think I'm getting the hang of this. Let's try taking off and actually go help my teammates. I end up taking off and then landing really hard on the side of the hill I just took off of. Yep, so count that as my first suicide of Battlefield 3. After that experience of flying the helicopter I cannot wait to fly a jet now.
Speaking of jets, I have been wanting to play one of the "run around and blow everything up" games I have. I haven't though as I'm not sure exactly which one to play. There is Just Cause 2 with its large game world and all the possibilites it can hold. Plus you can fly jets and in this game I know how to fly them somewhat properly. I jut have to remember that the nearest body of water acts as the Bermuda Triangle.
On the other hand though, I have been thinking on popping in Mercenaries 2 since it is almost the same thing. It has attack helicopters (that I can actually fly) and the equivalent of each vehicle in JC2...minus the jets and Bermuda Triangle. However to make up for this lack of aircraft and mysterious bodies of water, it has airstrikes. Which I love to use whenever I get the chance to, because you know causing a huge explosion is always fun in a video game. I really don't know, the sound of airstrikes is winning me over slowly. That and I haven't played Mercenaries 2 in a while and I do enjoy it.
Again not much of a post, but I at least got two posts within a weeks time frame. Anyways, until next time! Hopefully I'll have more stories of an endeavour in flight and perhaps even a failed airstrike or two. Danger close!
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