Michael Cook’s Place

I just finished playing The Simpsons Game on the 360. Overall, I enjoyed it.
Good Points
The graphics are very good, there are a few times when you could mistake some of the real-time cutscenes for animation. A few more polygons to smooth out the lines and things would work very well. A few of the large [...]

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So my mini-odyssey continues with the 360 and it continues to amaze me… in not so great ways. The demo for the next Burnout was released today. I’d like to play that. I know it will take a while to download (it’s 900MB) but I’ll wait.
But then, I’m already waiting.
You see, I had to update [...]

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So I bought an XBox 360. I’ve been meaning to for a while, but I consider them too expensive. I had a large pile of games to trade in, and with a 30% bonus coupon for GameStop that I found this was a great chance. So I bought one. Let’s see what it’s been doing [...]

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It must be an unlucky time here at my house, as I just noticed I’m down another shrimp. That means I only have two left. I’ll have to consider it to be Rei that is no longer with us. This means I need yet another set of names.
I think I’ll go with the simple: Player [...]

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This is a highly minor update. My EcoSphere came home with me a month or so ago so it wouldn’t have to sit in my office over the weekends, where without heat I figured it would freeze. Due to this I haven’t been watching it as closely as I used it. Today I discovered that [...]

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