Google is Everywhere

For the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man Google made a custom Pac-Man game as their logo. They have now made the game available on it's own page.

Reach Beta Tester Is Going On My Resume

The Halo: Reach beta is the best video game beta I've ever played. It's also the only beta I've ever played. I didn't get to play it a ton but I did get to try out most of the game modes.

Arena: I like the idea of being able to suck but not completely bring my teammates down. I didn't play enough games to get put in a division.

Stockpile: I think stockpile might be my favorite new game type. It's a little easier for me to play than 1 flag. Four neutral flags. You bring them to territories by your base. at the end of every minute the flags get collected.

Invasion: Probably the most unique new game type. Elites have 3 objectives which unlock new phases. Spartans try to stop them. 6 vs. 6 made of 3 groups of 2 on each side. It's sort of like a one sided territories or king of the hill but with phases. Each phase increases and improves loadouts and gives you more vehicles.

Invasion Slayer: Similar to Slayer but uses the territories idea to drop weapons and vehicles. The phases improve the drops.

Network Test 1: Also known as Generator Defense. Possible new game type. Sort of like Invasion. One team of Spartans protect generators. One team of Elites try to blow them up. Unlike Invasion you switch offense and defense each round. 3 Spartans, 3 Elites, 3 Generators.

Headhunter: Kill someone, a skull pops out. Collect the skull and deposit it in a territory, like Stockpile but the territories move. When you die your skull and all the skulls you had collected fall out. First to 25 or first to deposit 10 skulls at once wins.

They could sell the beta and people would buy it.

I have a snazzy new Halo: Reach gamercard at the right.

0/0g - It's a beta.

Pomegranate Coffee

First beverage post in a while. I tried this stuff today just to see what it was like. It doesn't taste like pomegranate. It just has Pomx (POM Wonderful Pomegranate Antioxidant Extract). It is probably the best iced coffee I've ever had.

Though I'm not really a coffee drinker and I probably wouldn't have bought it if it weren't on sale. $4 is a lot for 10.5 oz. of coffee.

Assassins Bleed Too

Thank Minerva. They fixed almost everything I hated about the first game.

There are fewer collectibles. You can buy treasure maps to locate all the treasures in the game. The feathers only appear in cities so you can keep track of how many you need to collect by how much of the city you have opened up.

The quick time events weren't required for an achievement. I missed more in this game than in the previous one.

There were a lot more things to do besides collecting. You have to help rebuild your city, fill your villa with art, translate codex pages, and find seals in hidden tombs. And most of the side quests are assassinations.

The only thing they didn't fix is the fact that this game randomly guesses which way I'm trying to jump. I don't know if it's my controller or if I'm physically handicapped but I can't count the number of times I jumped off a high building straight to the ground and the died. Or when I was trying to complete a timed obstacle and jumped into the water.

Assassination are much better. You can do them in many more situations.

The are a lot more weapons. The poison blade is my favorite new weapon. I just wish that you could actually own the axe and halberd instead of just stealing them from enemies and then loosing them.

All in all I would say that this game is an improvement in every way with no added problems.

1000/1000g this time. Requiescat in Pace.