Archive for July, 2006


Battlefield 2 Modern Combat Review (Xbox 360)

At A Glance
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. In several ways, better than Battlefield 2 for PC.

Overall: 8
Graphics: 7
Sound: 7
Single Player: 8
Multiplayer: 8

Good:

frenetic combat
single player campaign
generally good network play
lots of neat graphical touches

Bad:

campaign can be inconsistently hard
lots of pauses between challenges
stupid people that [...]

PGR3 – the new Cone Capture game type is fun!

Another friend got PGR3 today, so after the now-obligatory Mini race around London, we spent a little while in Cone Capture.
We were going to give Cat and Mouse a try, but there weren’t any games on.
I took a D-class Sagaris, and he took a Merc CLK GTR, and we blasted through [...]

Ad-Click Sundays

If you’re like me, you’re probably quite well-used to avoiding banner ads. You see them, you recognize them, you ignore them. You never click them. I don’t actively use an ad-blocker (I use pop-up blockers), though.
Well, I’m instituting a new policy – on Sundays, if a site rewards my presence with information that I find useful, [...]

Iriver Clix Here Now (must be Julytember)

My watch says it’s still July (not quite the rumoured September), but JB Macquarie had an Iriver Clix (at least two, actually) in store for $AUD292 today. A friend snapped it up eagerly; I’m waiting to see how he feels about it before deciding whether I need another MP3/WMA/Ogg player.
The Clix seems to be the pick of the [...]

More BF2MC impressions

Following on from my earlier impressions, I took BFMC out for a spin on Live, and she didn’t disappoint.
On a fairly unpopulated server, I was one stinking kill away from my first medal (Sniper – 10 kills without dying), but the time ran out. I’m still sitting here buzzing. It was fun.
The scenario: I was stuck [...]

The El Maco is back… or is it?

Of the many guilty pleasures of my youth, none are remembered with quite the same fondness as the original El Maco burger and fries from Mcdonald’s. The concept was brilliant: make a burger with taco ingredients! Everyone loves Tacos!
And so Maccas’ keen food design team went to work. The burger they produced was a juicy patty with grated cheese, sour [...]