Category: Game On

I’m back playing Ace Combat 4 again after a break of many months. Spurred on by a cowardly challenge in the pub by Cedrick, I got practicing in anticipation of sending him crashing back to Earth many times over at the hands of my arial combat skills.

Sadly Cedrick was more interested in shaking maracas and using a dance mat(!) when I went to his place at the weekend, so the chance to make him crash and burn was lost.

But my brief sortie in the stratosphere has ended up with me being hooked on the game again and I’m trying to complete every mission with a “special” rating at Ace level. No mean feat, I can tell you, as to do so you have to eek out and bring down an ace pilot flying somewhere around the map for each mission.

So far I have managed this on about 14 out of the 20 missions and my highly honed skills of last year have returned to their devastating best! Oh yes! (pegging f*ckers left right and center, I am!)

The reward for all this toil is new planes and paint jobs for said planes. Plus… the elusive X-02 plane that is rewarded when you complete every level with a special rating on hard. Hard!? We don’t need no stinking “hard”! Ace level is where it’s at if you want to be the best of the best! =o)

Ace Combat 4 on PS2 – highly recommended.

I’ve been playing the PS2 version of The Sims with Fliss recently. It’s quite a good gag, and although there’s parts I think could be better I haven’t really played it on PC, so I’m hardly qualified to judge.

Fliss has a decent review on her site which explains the failings of the title from the perspective of a long time fan. For the occasional time when I’m allowed to join in a game, it does make for quite good fun and a change of pace from my usual diet of Madden and racing games.

And it’s almost impossible not to laugh when your sim falls off of a running machine!

If you’ve got Battlefield 1942 then I recomend picking up the Desert Combat Alpha mod for the game. It changes it from WWII style, snails paced combat into a full blown Arnie style action movie!

There’s something kind of wicked about rocketing around these WWII maps in an F-16 or an Apache Gunship. Heck, even the improvement in the rocket launcher makes it cool to be a foot soldier again!