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[Dec. 20th, 2002|02:05 pm] |
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Just bought The Getaway for the PS2, seduced by the promise of realistic London streets to play in. It's supposed to be a British Grand Theft Auto but since I've never played it, that's not a terribly helpful comparison.
I haven't bought many games since our PC stopped being cutting edge (which happened in early 1998) but my first impression is that not a lot's changed in the gaming world since the first Tomb Raider.
But I can't deny it - its version of London is very, very well done. There's less traffic and no motorcycle couriers (the buggers are everywhere in real central London), but apart from that it's so realistic that I even recognised a pedestrian crossing on which, in the real world, I was once hit by a motorcycle. I'm looking forward to finding Finsbury Square to see if I can see my office window, with a couple of heating engineers' backsides visible through it :o)
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In other, related, news the office is getting increasingly uninhabitable. The carpet smell is worse and the heating has now swung to the other extreme, so we're all broiling in t-shirts. Still, today's my last day here until January 3rd - off elsewhere for the next fortnight.
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[Dec. 20th, 2002|05:54 pm] |
Cracker joke answers:
What's white and goes up?
A confused snowflake.
A bottle of lemonade fell on a barman's head. Why wasn't he hurt?
It was a soft drink.
Ho Ho Ho. |
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