February 2011 - Page 7 of 9

Achievement Bounty 2-4-2011/ The Chase Down

Achievement Bounty 2-4-2011 (28) (980GS)

Achievements obtained from OMG: Our Manic Game, Game Party: In Motion, Mafia II, Fifa 08, and Bubble Town 2.

Stay far away from Game Party: In Motion. Worst. Kinect. Game. Yet.

Completed Game: OMG: Our Manic Game

The chase down progress as of 2-4-2011:

18 completed games

The Target: January = 31days February = 4 days

Total of 35 completed games needed

I have a LONG way to go.

Achievement Bounty 2-4-2011/ The Chase Down

Achievement Bounty 2-4-2011 (28) (980GS)

Achievements obtained from OMG: Our Manic Game, Game Party: In Motion, Mafia II, Fifa 08, and Bubble Town 2.

Stay far away from Game Party: In Motion. Worst. Kinect. Game. Yet.

Completed Game: OMG: Our Manic Game

The chase down progress as of 2-4-2011:

18 completed games

The Target: January = 31days February = 4 days

Total of 35 completed games needed

I have a LONG way to go.

You Don’t Know Jack Review

You Don’t Know Jack is a throw back to the 1990’s an edgy trivia game for the at the time cutting age PlayStation 1. A lot of things have changed over the last ten years since the last YDKJ was released. Does this franchise stand the test of time or is it another game that shouldn’t have been resurrected? Should you fear the $30 price tag or should you embrace it? Find out after the break.

You Don’t Know Jack Review

Developer: Jellyvision, Inc.

Publisher: THQ, Inc.

Price $29.99

Some of you may remember You Don’t Know Jack from the days when the original Play Station ruled the gaming universe. The edgy fast paced trivia game got much critical acclaim back then and deserves even more now. I had feared the game would have lost a lot of its personality and appeal after a 10 year hiatus. To my surprise You Don’t Know Jack is back and better than ever. With the addition of 4 player local competitive play and Xbox Live support this may be the ultimate “party game” for the 360.

Presentation:

Due to the nature of the game you shouldn’t expect it to be visually stunning. But it looks pretty clean there are some charming animations my personal favorite is the animation for question 10 where the 1 and 0 consummate their relationship and produce a little baby “n”. The repeated animations are bound to get stale after awhile but if you are playing with against friends it shouldn’t matter.

Audio:

The sound is where this game really shines. With thousands of lines of funny and topical dialogue and hundreds of mock commercials there is plenty here to keep you laughing. The announcer also reads the questions to you which is a nice change of pace over the standard trivia games.

Questions:

The disc features 73 episodes which contain 10 questions each. The questions are really varied between current pop culture to astronomy and world history. The game features a pretty impressive range. It also already features a down loadable content pack of 10 additional episodes. The first one is available now for 400 Microsoft Points ($5) with two additional packs already announced. The only down side is each episode stays the same so you can just memorize them and dominate.

Achievements:

The achievement list isn’t too bad looking the game is fun and offers enough replay value that you should be able to get most of them naturally. The most intimidating achievement is the losing one million dollars in the Jack Attack. I think I have an easy way to do it though it will take some testing. My favorite achievement is “Consolation Achievement” for not earning an achievement for 5 hours.

Conclusion:

You Don’t Know Jack is debatably the best trivia game on the 360 (Scene-it deserves a little credit) When it comes down to it I give the nod to YDKJ based on the $30 price tag and the charm of the announcer. This game should keep you entertained for countless hours as long as you have friends to play with. If you don’t have friends it’s ok there are achievements dedicated you being home alone on Saturday night. This game is a very strong showing from Jellyvision, Inc. If you enjoy trivia games or playing competitive games with a group of friends pick this one up today!

Score: 8

Achievement Bounty 2-3-2011 (20) (350GS)

Achievements obtained from Flight Control, The Oregon Trail, DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue, FIFA 08, and NHL 09.

What is the chase down? I started the new year out very slow. So I decided a few weeks back to chase down that lost time. I’m trying to get my completed game total for the year equivalent to the number of days that have passed. So obviously it is a moving target, almost prey like. To achieve this goal, I’ll have to complete at least a game a day and then some to even keep pace. The sooner I meet the moving target, the easier it will be. To complete the case down by the end of February, I would have to complete a total of 59 games. That would be 42 more games in 25 days as of 2-3-2011.

I’m juggling a couple of other things at the moment which is making this even harder. I need to just focus on completing a bunch of games if I want to get it done.

The Chase Down Progress as of 2-3-2011: 17 completed 34 needed (this number goes up one every day form here on out)

Completed Game: Flight Control

2011 Stats

Achievements & Gamerscore

Total achievements: 422

Total gamerscore: 8,261

Retail game achievements: 232

Retail game gamerscore: 5,691

Arcade achievements: 74

Arcade gamerscore: 1,170

DLC achievements: 23

DLC gamerscore: 450

Windows Phone 7 achievements: 114

Windows Phone 7 gamerscore: 1,400

Kinect achievements: 2

Kinect gamerscore: 50

Achievements from amazing games: 50

Gamerscore from amazing games: 1,130

Achievements from great games: 53

Gamerscore from great games: 961

Achievements from good games: 93

Gamerscore from good games: 1,650

Achievements from decent games: 83

Gamerscore from decent games: 1,550

Achievements from bad games: 94

Gamerscore from bad games: 1,730

Achievements from terrible games: 44

Gamerscore from terrible games: 1,225

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Games Played

Amazing games: Halo: Reach, Red Dead: Redemption, Dead Space 2

Great games: NBA 2k11, DJ Hero, Rock Band 3, Raskulls, DeathSpank, BioShock 2, DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue, Mafia II

Bad games: FF: Adrenaline (WP7), Dead Space: Ignition, Women’s Murder Club, MorphX, Guitar Hero 5 (WP7)

Terrible games: Turning Point [FR/DE], Family Game Night 3

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Completed Games

Overall: (17) Family Game Night 3, FF Adrenaline, Golf: Tee It Up!, de Blob Revolution, Dead Space: Ignition, Women’s Murder Club, Star Wars The Force Unleashed II, Halo: Reach, Raskulls, Cabela’s North American Adventures, MorphX, Axel and Pixel, DeathSpank, Guitar Hero 5 (WP7), Wallace and Gromit #4, Rocket Riot (WP7), Flight Control

Retail: (5) Family Game Night 3, Star Wars The Force Unleashed II, Halo: Reach, Cabela’s North American Adventures, MorphX

Arcade: (6) Golf: Tee It Up!, Dead Space: Ignition, Raskulls, Axel and Pixel, DeathSpank, Wallace and Gromit #4

Windows Phone 7: (6) FF Adrenaline, de Blob Revolution, Women’s Murder Club, Guitar Hero 5, Rocket Riot, Flight Control

DLC: (3) Endor DLC – Star Wars The Force Unleashed II, Minerva’s Den – Bioshock 2, Raskulls Reinforcements 1 – Raskulls

Amazing games: (1) Halo: Reach

Great games: (2) Raskulls, DeathSpank

Good games: (5) Star Wars The Force Unleashed II, Axel and Pixel, Wallace and Gromit #4, Rocket Riot (WP7), Flight Control

Decent games: (3) Golf: Tee It Up!, de Blob Revoltion, Cabela’s North American Adventures

Bad games: (5) FF Adrenaline, Dead Space: Ignition, Women’s Murder Club, MorphX, Guitar Hero 5 (WP7)

Terrible games: (1) Family Game Night 3

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Stallion83

Month: February 2011

Achievement Bounty 2-4-2011/ The Chase Down

Achievement Bounty 2-4-2011/ The Chase Down

You Don’t Know Jack Review

You Don’t Know Jack Review

The Chase Down 2-3-2011