PGR3 - Beat It

Last night I ended up beating the last level of PGR3 no Easy. All told, I've gotten 250 points out of the game so far (not bad for $8) and I still need to go through it on Normal and Hard.

COD4 Walls (Part 2)

The other night I hit another wall in Call of Duty 4, it's the last section of the "One Shot, One Kill Mission." You end up making your way to an abandoned carnival where you have to defend yourself for several minutes as swarms of enemies try to flank you. I actually made it thorugh the first major onslaught without much trouble, but once the helicopters were called in I couldn't make it through. I finally googled the problem to see if I could find any advice and was amazed by the following video. I tried it that night and it totally worked. Here's the video:



Sorry Ben, it really was that easy.

Broken Xbox 360's Make Babies Cry

Cheapy D just put out this video and it's a must watch.

Sunday Morning Deals

This Sunday, there are some pretty amazing deals at Circuit City & Target if you own an Xbox 360. Circuit City has a copy of Lost Planet for $20 or a copy of Bioshock for $48 or a copy of Halo 3 for $48 (although, who doesn't already own a copy of Halo 3???). Target has the Orange Box for $40 (which is outstanding, you get 5 high quality games for $40!!!), or Project Gotham Racing 4 for $40. All in all, it's a good week to be an Xbox gamer.

My Last Ferrari

I just bought my last Ferrari for PGR3 and got the 45 point achievement, next stop Lambourghini.

Gears of War 2 Confirmed

This just in: Microsoft just confirmed Gears of War 2 will be releasing this November!!!

It's Official

HD-DVD is officially dead according to the following IGN Report. It looks like Toshiba has officially pulled their support for HD-DVD, which effectively kills the product, so Blu-Ray will be the official media of the next generation...unless digital distribution wins out...hmmmmm.

COD4 Walls (Part 1)

The other day I casually picked up my copy of COD4 and decided to set the difficulty level to veteran and give things a try. Since then, I have become utterly obsessed with finishing this game on veteran and have made some pretty good progress, but I thought it might be kind of fun to write about the walls that I encounter along the way. For your benefit, I define a wall as any point in a game that causes extreme and excessive frustration bordering on insanity.

Fortunately, I've only hit one place thus far that I would call a legitimate wall. There have definitely been a few frustrating spots, but the only wall thus far was in the news room in the level "Charlie Don't Surf." The frustration began when I made it to this point one night, decided to wait to beat, but simply turned of my xbox w/o saving. The next day I awoke to the horror of having lost all of my progress on the level. After slogging my way back through the streets of the middle east, I finally made it back to the newsroom and was firly stuck for at least 45 minutes to an hour. This is an extremely difficult run with snipers, rpg's and seemingly omniscient soldiers finding you even from behind cover. Fortunately, I made it through w/o throwing my controller through the TV, although I came close, and have now made it through the rest of Act 1.

As I move forward from here, my greatest fear is coming up in "One Shot", which I have it on good authority is one of the most difficult levels ever...although I don't think anything can compare to "The Silo" in Call of Duty 2. I nearly lost my sanctification on that one.

The Death of HD-DVD

According to X3F it looks like HD-DVD is done for. Hopefully Microsoft will get a Blu-Ray Player to market sometime soon.

Check out the article here.

My Next Ferrari

Last week I picked up a copy of Project Gotham Racing 3 for $8, using a 25% off coupon stacked with my 10% off Gamestop Card (Score!!!). I've avoided racing games for a long time, b/c I just couldn't get the hang of making the turns. For some reason, I kept ending up running into wall, after wall, after wall. Since, this only cost me $8 I decided to take the plunge and force myself to buy a copy and see if I could make some progress. Turns out that was a pretty good decision, as I'm really starting to get the hang of it (although I'm only going through it on easy right now). I'm trying to collect all of the feraris in the game. I've already got quite a few, but I just added it up and it looks like I'm going to need about $2.5 milllion to get the last 8. Fortunatley, I'm earning about $200,000 per tournament so I should be there pretty quick. Next comes Lambourghinis (I have no idea if that's how you spell it).

26,000 and Counting

This news is a couple of days old, but I recently passed the 26,000 mark for my gamerscore. I was playing Viva Pinata and received the "Longevity" achievement (ironically enough). I wish that I could say that I earned every single one of my achievements, but sadly this is not the case. I, like so many others who got their Xbox early on, have Madden '06, NHL 2k6, as well as most of the other culprits that have contributed to inflated gamer scores. At the same time, I do have a lot of achievements that I am proud of, like beating COD2 on Veteran, Rainbow 6 on Realistic, and GRAW 2 on Elevated Risk, as well as all of the Single Player Achievements in GRAW 2. Anyway, my real goal right now is to hit 30,000 by the end of the year, which I think is totally doable.

Welcome to Drew Dog's Xbox

I'm a little surprised that I'm actually doing this, but I figured it was about time that I came up with my own blog site about my love for my xbox. To be clear (as Major Nelson would say), my xbox is a distant last compared to my love for Christ and my love for my family but I do enjoy fragging it up with the best of them and I especially love playing games with my family and friends. Anyway, on this site I'll try to post any news that I think is interesting, any great deals that I find on games, hardware, etc. and the rest of the time I'll probably keep a running commentary going of my progress through various games.