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Go on Hello, hello and welcome to the Midlife Gamer podcast.

Today is Sunday the 22nd of January 2012. My name is Darren in the room where we record. I have a beautiful... I always say you're beautiful. You're looking effing scruffy today. Thanks. Mr. Matthew Moore. I was going for that look. Okay, so we're here. We're invigorated, we're pumped, we've not seen each other for ages, got loads to talk about. So without further do, ladies and gentlemen, kick back, relax, and enjoy episode 167 of the middle like I'm up. Right? What are you been up to, brother? It's been a four-in-law. Lost your hairbrush? No. Is this your new look now to brother uh it's been a four nice lost your hairbrush no it's is this is your new look now no it's just i just got out of bed and i didn't have time to do a lot to it because i wanted to come up here and find you nice and early have some sexy coffee with you wanted to come and find me still asleep so you could get in didn't you i know i know what you're about. There's a new one way I'm going to be Big Spoon. That's if you're asleep.

Hey, I've been playing some games, though. Good, good, good, good. Talk to me then. Well, I can, I'm finally done with, um, Sainzio the 3rd. Completed it. I'm so, I'm glad I did because I know I've been, it's been a long call for me and I put a lot of time into it, but that's just the distraction.

I was just distracted at every point. And there's some, there's some amazing moments of that game.

And I meant, I'm in to sort of speak about some of them because it goes, it goes absolutely crazy. I mean, there's a whole, a whole, um, a couple of missions about you trying to stop some kind of cyber theft

or there's a lot of cyber world, so you kind of go into a tron world.

But because the game has created all these sort of tron-style tanks that you can use in that world,

when you finish that, I guess right, well, they're all available in your garage. Guess what? If you're on dick around in a pixelated tank in the real world, go for your life. That's awesome. We made it. You may as well. And the, I mean, the finale was great. There was a number of times through that game, there's choices that you can make, which give you different achievements. And it also allows for a second play through but as far as the uh the main ending at the end um the i mean i chose with the option which seemed like a no-brainer to me and it was also the closest of the two um um um um way points because i was kind of under under under under under under under under under under under under under fire i wanted to get at Sharpish.

But it's also the choice that I wanted to sort of make.

But it's kind of nicely.

It threw me back into the world as all good sandbox games do.

And it also allowed you to replay that final mission from the start for the single reason of seeing the other ending.

So there's alternate endings?

Well, there is an alternate ending which it's going to allow me to play through, but there are also alternate steps I could have taken throughout. It may be three or four mid-progress decisions. So if you wanted to see all of it, then you would have to play it through a game. I mean, none of those decisions were super. I mean, I didn't have to think too hard about them. It was very obvious how each one was going to play out. But it's nice that I do have that option that I can

just replay that mission at the end a different way.

Cool. Is it any kind of slash played metric that we can get our head around? How many hours

you've sunk in? Yeah, yeah. It's about 15. Okay. That that's a fair amount. When you save it, so it shows you what your progress is. And I had a ball with it. I had an absolute ball with it. I'm going to keep it around for a while, because I do desperately want to try the co-op out on that. And I'm not sure how that's going to work. I don't know whose story or whose progress is being tracked exactly, but I kind of want to get in there now just for a mess about. Just for a mess about. It'd be nice if there were just some kind of a sandbox mode, even though it is kind of sandboxy. But don't think about story. Don't worry about tracking everybody's individual story.

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