Bands And Tracks

posted by Jaitu at 21:35

Last night ElDiablo and I met up with TechMaster and a few other friends to see Womble692's new band play at a local venue. We all had a good time and I took a couple of hundred photos, many of which fall into the category of 'artistic' by which I mean blurry. I'll let Womble692 go into more detail of the evening from the stage-front perspective if he wishes to. Suffice to say it constantly amazes me how he manages to make such wonderful sounds from what is really nothing more than a plank and some elastic bands.
Before heading out to the gig ElDiablo and I thrashed a couple of Aston Martin DB9s around the famous or maybe infamous Nordschleife circuit at the Nurburgring. Needless to say this was done from the comfort of a sofa and made possible by Forza Motorsport on the XBox. Anyway that little story, truth though it is, was really only an excuse to embed this clip. Imagine our racing skills to be like this only stretched over 24 miles.

My Wii Review

posted by TechMaster at 13:39

I thought I would add my comments on the Wii, I was lucky enough to get one of these for Xmas from Virgin, which included the Wii Sports but I also grabbed a copy of Zelda.

First impressions are good, it was easy to setup up, very small/quiet unit and the controller seems responsive with minimal delay.

It obvious that the Wii is not a powerful HD ready console, the free Wii sports title is pretty basic but great fun especially with two players. I haven’t had time to play Zelda yet.
You do need quite a bit of space, I can see how its easy to smack someone by mistake while playing some of these game

Negative points : Crap picture quality although buying a component cable made a big improvement, and once you buy the "must have" second controller, a couple of games it works out more then the current 360 Bundles (which one is better value, the 360 in my opinion)

I’m lucky enough to have a Xbox 360 HD , digital 5.1 setup and can say they are totally different gaming experiences, Gears of War for example is great along with the online gaming the 360 offers.

I see the Wii as a family "pick up and play" type console, I think the Wii is a great novelty and I am interested to see how they implement the controller in upcoming games. But for me it’s a good "second" console and no more.