From bad to great! My XBOX is working again!!!
August 6th, 2006
Well this is certainly a turn up for the books, I wrote a while back about how I tried to boot up a couple of games on my XBOX and it had decided to pack in, well yesterday I stuck Ghost Recon 2 in just to try it again and it fired up no worries 
I am chuffed to bits because I have been getting a little frustrated at the lack of gaming and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound in my life, but now it has returned with a bang. Now to the downside of my little surprise, Ghost Recon is way tough! I never ever played the first one and picked this copy up out of ASDA because it was rediculously cheap and I fancies a good shooter, I guess it is going to take a while to get my head round. Either that or there are too many cobwebs on my thumbs and fingers and I just haven’t got the skills anymore lol…
Another bonus surrounding this is that I actually get a 2mth XBOX live trial with the game, time to dust off my fighting talk and get myself online to whip some folks, I bet it is me that gets the cuffing though! Gimme a shout if you have a copy of Ghost Recon 2 and play on live and I will come in past for a game one I activate my trial.
Seeing as my XBOX decided it was going to play ball, I chucked in the other game I bought for cheap which was the Fantastic 4 game. The game is mediocre at best and it kinda reminds me a little of something like Streets of Rage which was a scrolling beatem up from years ago that I loved to bits, the general idea being that you stroll about beating the crap out of baddies. I guess that stands to reason seeing as you are playing some of the most famous super heroes of all time.
I enjoy romping about doing combo moves and beating up hordes of bad guys, there is something quite enjoyable about it, the thing that got my goat about the game was the dodgy camera angle. It is shakey in first player but when me and my daughter Charlotte were playing it, it got well out of hand at times and put me off getting too into it. Charlotte liked it though so I will probably go back and play some more…
Okay, so thats a little bit of good news from me, I hope that you are all having such good luck too… I’m off to get thrashed at Ghost Recon 2 again before I go to bed…
Sweet dreams!
Lynda Author Comment
August 12th, 2006
good to hear your Xbox recovered - but bad if it means you are so busy gaming that you forget about Bad Joke Friday - is the highlight of my week - how sad is that!