He's got a time machine going back in time to recover his files. Oh yes, welcome to the Midlife Gamer podcast. Today is Saturday, the first of May 2010,

and we are giving you a bank holiday bonanza special of a show, and we're just getting it recorded

nice and early for your asses. So all the usual stuff. There's loads of. Loads of news. Too much to talk about. So I'm not going to, I'm not going to rattle off all the headlines. Because I don't like doing that anyway. I, because it always takes about 12 takes. So kick back and enjoy yourself. And listen to us. My name is Darren Bullock. He's Matthew Moore. and you're listening to the Midlife Game of Podcast. Episode 91.

Amen. You're here. I'm here. You're here. See the smile? My man. My man. How is your week? This smile is the smile of a man who's got a long weekend, baby. Yeah. Got a long weekend ahead. But how is your week? The week's been good. Excellent.

It's been a good week to me.

Game-wise, I finished off Splinter Cell. Okay. Me and Sam Fisher are done with that story arc. Fine. Talk to me. I didn't quite understand the story. I actually didn't get the story. I didn't get the backstory, and I didn't really have any motivation to continue. Right. But I'm putting that down to the fact that I'm not really a splencil kind of a guy.

But gameplay-wise, it was fine. have any motivation to continue. Right. But I'm putting that down to the fact that I'm not really a splinter style kind of a guy.

But gameplay-wise, it was fine. It was fine. It had extended features I could go into of these sort of... They were just sort of scenario. So go in there and take out ten guys without being seen. And you're still owning... So like challenge rooms? Pretty much because there's loads of challenges behind the actual game and it's split into three so you'll have...

You'll get a bunch of experience points if you get ten head shots in a row.

It's very much like that.

But then you do have one which is specific due to that game.

So pulling a guy out of a window or throwing some guy into another guy 10 feet away

and it tracks all this through the main game or through multi-soy co-op and through this other

mode as well so you could have kept going to get some to get some experience because

you spend all your experience upgrading your arsenal he's got he's got a ton of weapons a ton of

weapons i used two the entire time through him really i don't know whether experimentation would have helped. I did see him overcome with a lot of gadgets that I wasn't really using. Even though you can't win a gun too much because he doesn't take much punishment before he's down. But there was a lot of stuff in there that don't know whether it was necessarily needed. You might have been borne out the fact that you were, sounds like like you were just powering through the game to get to the end. You're right, yeah. Maybe I didn't explore all of the other sort of kill scenarios you could do. How long did that take then altogether? I know it's supposed to be a short campaign. I don't know, five, six or seven hours. Yeah, do you know what? That's not too bad.

It's not too bad.

Like I said, there was plenty of stuff in there. I mean, I knew it wasn't going to buy it. I knew it wasn't going to love it. So it was rental. It was perfect. Perfect. Sweet. And another good game by Ubisoft. Yeah. Knocking out some good titles recently. Yeah. For the short. What else to play?

We both played some rock band on Tuesday.

Yeah, we had a midweek hookup, which is unknown for us.

I know, so why don't you tell me, or tell the listeners, why you came round and what the occasion was?

Okay, so Tuesday is rock band new release day for

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