Rainbow Six Vegas

I've been really enjoying the latest Rainbow Six on 360.  The single player is excellent, the ability to play through the campaign co-op with 2,3 & 4 players using xbox live is a perfect way to spend some time with a few buddies, and earn points towards your P.E.C. and collect a couple of achievements in the process.  The adversary modes provide great team based (and some solo) gameplay on xbox live (I'm currently playing Team Sharpshooter mostly) with a good variety of game types - which should keep my interest level high for an extended period of time. 

After the last R6 (Lockdown) I was a bit skeptical of how good this game would actually be - I'm happy to report that this game gets back to it's roots, in fact the Montreal team that made the classic Rainbow Six 3 is at the helm of Vegas.  I would suggest that Ubi continue tapping Montreal's talent for all future Rainbow Six games.  Only a few minor issues that hopefully the upcoming patch will fix: help load your live vision face to other players systems and also fix the leaderboards!   This title is damn near perfect IMHO, and worth the purchase.

Right now I'm going to check out the forums and hopefully find some 2old2play soldiers ready for to fight the good fight.  See you online!

Posted by aDub @ 7:18 am EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

Dragons Lair (1983)

From Wikipedia:

"Dragons Lair was one of the first laserdisc video games, released June 1983 by Cinematronics. It featured polished Disney-like animation created by former Disney animator Don Bluth, for the first time allowing players to control a fully realized character, as opposed to a pixel-based sprite, which at the time were comparatively limited in the amount of detail they could sport.

The games enormous contrast with other arcade games of the time created a sensation when it appeared, and was played so heavily that many machines often broke due to the strain of overuse. It was also arguably the most successful game on this medium and is aggressively sought after by collectors."

Watch Dragons Lair from start to finish (10 minutes)

Posted by aDub @ 1:42 am EDT | Permalink | 3 Comments