Autumn Leaves

Hello

Wow! We're in October already. The nights are getting darker, the weather is on the turn, and we're heading into the Christmas push for retailers selling games and accessories.

As far as my game playing goes I'm still playing things I have had for a while, but haven't got round to playing.

In the last couple of weeks I've put most of my game playing time into Split/Second Velocity. I'm progressing quite well through the season mode races, and as I got the game for my birthday I bought most of the DLC for the game. The game is still good fun to play and very easy to have a couple of quick sessions of each week when I get the chance.

As for other games on PS3; I put about 15-20 mins each into Hunted: The Demon's Forge, Bulletstorm and Syndicate. Out of the three of them Hunted seems like a game I'll put a lot of time into as I like the game style and the mechanics seem fairly robust. It's also a nice change when a game actually allows you switch character during the game to switch up the play style of ranged or melee. Syndicate and Bulletstorm are both FPSs, but Bulletstorm definitely seems to have a bit more character about it.

On PC I've been playing the puzzle game Divide by Sheep which sees you trying to rescue a specific number of sheep on each level. The game takes a rather dark turn when you have to feed sheep to wolves, or fire them through a laser barrier which cuts them in half so that you can meet your quota. With 100+ levels to go through this will keep me going for a while as I'm only on 18 or 20. A bite size puzzler that I find hard to spend a lot of time on.

I've also been playing Warhammer 40K: Kill Team. It's a twin stick shooter where you take control of a Space Marine and shot your way through levels on an Ork battleship disabling systems on your way to an inevitable fight with the Ork leader at the end. The game is enjoyable enough and having a choice of Space Marine type (Librarian, Tech Marine, Assault Marine etc.) adds some nice reolayability. I would have liked to see a Terminator as a choice, but that is personal preference. It supports local co-op and while I haven't had a chance to try this the gameplay would suit it very well.

It's getting to that time of year where my PS+ subscription is due to expire and I've turned off the auto renew. I plan to complete Unfinished Swan and Hohokum before sometime in December, but after that I don't think I'll renew as I'm just not getting value from it due to the limited amount of time I have to play games. There are a lot of games that I got from the service that I would love to sink time into, but that's just the way life is sometimes.

Thanks for reading

Stuart