what i'm playing this week (carcasonne edition)

carcassone

so you may be shocked by the title because yes, i am indeed getting hooked on that free xbox live title that was sent out in november of this year. it was the 5th anniversary of live! and ms wanted to show some love.

either way, i'm just beginning to realize how sweet and fun this game is, but i won't digress into actually explaining it. it's basically (oh well, a little exposition never hurt anybody) a city building board game where you drop pieces and try to get them to connect and close off properly to build roads, cities, monestaries and farmland. you get points if you leave a follower on the land and it gets finished.

either way, it's really fun once you get used to it, and i have the strange suspicion that i've played it before.

brawl

sadly, between this newfound obsession and not being able to let go of some of the more annoying goals in assassin's creed (flags and templars) i've been completely remiss in my brawl time.

it's not that i don't like brawl, it's just that the more i'm forced to play through the sub-space emissary mode, the more i hate nintendo for making it such a long process to unlock all the characters.

i'm just impatient and feeling a slight addiction to achievement points which i'm hoping to just as quickly curb.

reviews

other than that i've been busy writing and publishing some more reviews. just got up my hack and slash review of tony hawk: proving ground where the best thing involved was the music, and i've got an ace combat 6 (i know, old!) review in the bank for next week.

expect reviews of phones, some more games (mostly old) and other reviews to come churning out in the next couple weeks.

the (infamous) rocketmen

oh, and i got my review code for rocketmen last night. jeez. that game kind of sucks. i'm going to keep at it for now though, as i've heard that, like dead rising, it gets a lot more fun when you've upgraded your character enough to be competitive. will get a full review up of that probably next week too.

i'm a busy busy busy bee,

JD