Last night after volleyball on the beach and a quick shower I headed to the basement where the PS3 resides. I fired it up and loaded MW2 only to discover that Sony required me to do a system update. So being the loyal PS3 owner I ran the system update. At the time I had no idea why there was an update waiting to install.
Probably the biggest new feature is the Playstation Plus premium online service. I'm not sure that $49.99 per year for cross game chat, some exclusive demos and trials, and access to the Qore premium video series is worth it. But I'm sure some people will take advantage of it. The beach bum in me says save the $50 for something else. A new game perhaps.
Other features include a beefed up Facebook on PS3, the ability to upload pictures and video to select sites on the Internet.
Not entirely impressed. I would rather see the ability to switch users within a game. Instead of having to reload a game that another users had been playing. But that's me.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
MW2 kill streak still at 20
I can't seem to get past 20. I've set me kill streak rewards to Harrier, chopper gunner and nuke. I've been having trouble getting to the Harrier kill streak. I have not earned it in the past week.
FYI, yes I'm still obsessed with this game.
FYI, yes I'm still obsessed with this game.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
PSN down?
Wow...this sucks. My PS3 doesn't connect to PSN. Initially I thought that my PS3 had a big problem. I did some research and discovered that PSN is down. It has something to do with the date on my PS3. So now I can't play my current favorite Modern Warfare 2. So I guess I'll play a little Fallout 3.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Thursday, December 10, 2009
MW2 kill streak
I've been playing COD:MW2 online quite a bit recently. I'm not the best player in the world so my best kill streak had been sitting at eight. Not real great but not the worst I've seen either.
Yesterday I was playing the Domination game online. The point of this game is for your team to capture and hold the three flags on the map. You team earns points based on the number of flags held until one team earns a total of 200 points. I selected my sniper class where I use the Intervention sniper rifle as the primary weapon and a shotgun as the secondary weapon. I started out very slow and died six times in a row. That's when I got going.
My first kill was a long shot that took out a sniper on the other team. I was moving around some wrecked vehicle near one of the flags that my team was holding. I noticed two guys moving towards the flag, since they were still pretty far away I was able to take them out with my sniper rifle. I then called in a UAV which enabled my team to see where on the map the enemy team is located. With the UAV up I saw another enemy moving towards the same flag but he was pretty close so I switched to the shotgun and pumped to rounds into him. Earlier I had set a claymore mine at the flag. And someone set it off pushing my kill streak to five. I was now able to call in a sentry gun. So I ran behind a shed near the edge of the map and waited for the sentry gun to be dropped. Once I recovered the sentry gun I placed it near the flag and then returned to the area behind the wrecked vehicles. The sentry gun killed a couple of people and I was able to snipe one more from behind the cars. Next up I called in a harrier strike. One kill from the bombing run but the hovering harrier made significant progress on my kill streak plus I sniped several men as they tried to shoot down the harrier. As the game ended I had twenty kills and the six deaths that started the game with.
I wonder how many kills I could have strung together if the game didn't finish when it did.
Yesterday I was playing the Domination game online. The point of this game is for your team to capture and hold the three flags on the map. You team earns points based on the number of flags held until one team earns a total of 200 points. I selected my sniper class where I use the Intervention sniper rifle as the primary weapon and a shotgun as the secondary weapon. I started out very slow and died six times in a row. That's when I got going.
My first kill was a long shot that took out a sniper on the other team. I was moving around some wrecked vehicle near one of the flags that my team was holding. I noticed two guys moving towards the flag, since they were still pretty far away I was able to take them out with my sniper rifle. I then called in a UAV which enabled my team to see where on the map the enemy team is located. With the UAV up I saw another enemy moving towards the same flag but he was pretty close so I switched to the shotgun and pumped to rounds into him. Earlier I had set a claymore mine at the flag. And someone set it off pushing my kill streak to five. I was now able to call in a sentry gun. So I ran behind a shed near the edge of the map and waited for the sentry gun to be dropped. Once I recovered the sentry gun I placed it near the flag and then returned to the area behind the wrecked vehicles. The sentry gun killed a couple of people and I was able to snipe one more from behind the cars. Next up I called in a harrier strike. One kill from the bombing run but the hovering harrier made significant progress on my kill streak plus I sniped several men as they tried to shoot down the harrier. As the game ended I had twenty kills and the six deaths that started the game with.
I wonder how many kills I could have strung together if the game didn't finish when it did.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Modern Warfare 2
The newest addition to my PS3 game collection is Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 2. Wow!!! The game play is similar to the other COD games.
The player is given three options: Co-op, single player, and multiplayer.
Co-op allows two players to play together with a common goal. The single player mode offers an exciting storyline that the player works through. And multiplayer mode pits you against other players either in your living room or on the other side of the world.
In my opinion it is one of the top games this year.
The player is given three options: Co-op, single player, and multiplayer.
Co-op allows two players to play together with a common goal. The single player mode offers an exciting storyline that the player works through. And multiplayer mode pits you against other players either in your living room or on the other side of the world.
In my opinion it is one of the top games this year.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Coming soon to a PS3 near you
In a recent announcement by Sony and Netflix we have learned that streaming movies will be available soon on the PS3. Netflix currently has streaming through several devices including the XBox 360. So I'm glad to see that the PS3 is going to have the same ability. Not that I'm a current Netflix customer but maybe someday I'll sign up for their $9.00 plan [the cheapest plan that allows streaming movies].
I think it would be cheaper than renting movies from the local Blockbuster. Plus I wouldn't have to get in my car and drive to pickup and return the DVDs. The downside would be I would have to watch the movies on the TV to which the PS3 is attached. Not that it would be awful but I like to have choices when it comes to entertainment.
An interesting component of the announcement is the fact that Netflix will send you a Blu-ray disk that will access the Internet and activate Netflix services so you can locate the movies you would like to stream.
Hmmmm....I think I should become a Netflix affiliate so all my readers could join and I could earn the resulting fees. Give me a couple of days to get it in place before you go and join Netflix. Or not.
I think it would be cheaper than renting movies from the local Blockbuster. Plus I wouldn't have to get in my car and drive to pickup and return the DVDs. The downside would be I would have to watch the movies on the TV to which the PS3 is attached. Not that it would be awful but I like to have choices when it comes to entertainment.
An interesting component of the announcement is the fact that Netflix will send you a Blu-ray disk that will access the Internet and activate Netflix services so you can locate the movies you would like to stream.
Hmmmm....I think I should become a Netflix affiliate so all my readers could join and I could earn the resulting fees. Give me a couple of days to get it in place before you go and join Netflix. Or not.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Weeding out my links
Today I'm taking time to check all my links and making sure they all work. Deleted one so far. I'm also checking links to make sure my reciprocal links are still in place on the other site. Deleted one of those too.
So I have space for a couple of links...anyone interested in reciprical links? Just add a link to this site and let me know about it and I'll recipricate with a link back to your site.
So I have space for a couple of links...anyone interested in reciprical links? Just add a link to this site and let me know about it and I'll recipricate with a link back to your site.
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