More Testing Driving

When I play a new demo on Live, I tend to think of it more as someone is either going to get my money or someone else is going to get my money. Cause in reality, someone is getting my money.

It may take an outside source to sway between the "who", and I have tried to search for a third alternative to my reoccuring drama with Live, but to no money saving end. Most of the time I just get put off or realize that I do, indeed, dislike hockey games. It's a real struggle to fit in any kind of solid decision on a game based off of 15 minutes of trimmed and cut gameplay. So when I base my impressions off of mostly Kotaku and IGN movies, I'm sort of disappointed that the game doesn't shine as much as the hype and pre-rendered CGI, something I thought we'd moved past in the HD era.

Need for Speed Carbon felt like it was being played on a Gamecube. Now, when I say that, realize that I've been playing LEGO Star Wars for over 27 hours. And changing driving games from Test Drive Unlimited to NFS could probably be likened to picking up your soda and tasting tea. It's scary to the point of illness.

But this is coming from a guy who wrote of TDU and now spends most of his non LEGO gaming time driving around Oahu for absolutely no apparent reason. I have been able to hang out with other Live addicts mostly because I own a car that will actually keep up with them. I haven't witnessed any cheating yet, but it's still early. You can ram the shit out of my Skyline or "Lambo" and I don't give a care. But you start doing it from the other side of the island and we've got issues. There is some glitching going on around my house, but I'm assuming that because Live is always on, it's not just my house and people pop in and out between chores for mom.

And I really don't mind a game that gives up so many achievements for putting on clothes. If you could buy gas in this game they would give you gamer points just for buying all three grades during some point in the game. Like fifty 'leven points.

I am not afraid of NFS: Carbon anymore though. My friend now has gotten pretty tough and I'm pretty sure the two of us can stand up to any more of EA's hype machine. Plus, you get to drive around in the daytime all the time. It never gets dark in Hawaii apparently, whereas whatever city Need for Speed lives in must be perpetually dark. All the time.