We had 40 MPH winds last night and a big limb fell on the edge of the roof. No damage, but it can make you jump out of your skin to hear a big crash in the middle of the night. The roads were a sheet of ice when I came home last night, with some areas having a few inches of snow tossed on top of the ice. I was pretty stressed after a 25 mile drive at low speeds, on mountain roads. Creeks to slide into, cliffs, deer crossing the road, wrecks, fallen trees and icy up and down grades make for a leisurely cruise, especially after a hard day at work.
Last night I downloaded the new game by Gameloft called Urban Crime. It is a knock-off of Grand Theft Auto and it is free. There are numerous in-app purchases that would seem to hinder your advancement, but I just played it for free, trying to see if I liked it. It seems to be a little easier, or more forgiving, than GTA or the Gangstar games. I enjoyed it. It should be pretty deep since it has almost half a gig of data. It doesn't have quite as cool a dialogue with the streetwalkers and other citizens as GTA but it is worth a try. Let me say that I was a bit irritated when the game started communicating with me when I turned my I-Pad back on. It did this by a banner at the top of my screen, while I was still on my home page. I guess it is no big deal but I went to Settings, Notifications, Urban Crime and then took the alert off. I don't like the fact that many games are including a line of code that will do this alert stuff without your permission. I don't know that Apple would have allowed this when Steve was running the show. I have all that stuff selected to 'off' on my I-Pad. Some of these games talk back and forth to 'somewhere' and keep up with what you play, I guess. It seems a bit invasive, to me, and I think that it can cause you to have more battery usage. That said, it is still a decent game and you can turn the alerts off. It just pays to check that stuff every once in a while. Also, for the new I-Pad persons among you, go to Settings, Safari, Clear cookies and Data, to keep your I-Pad speedy. Get rid of the dead weight, as it were.
There is a new game out called 480 B.C., if you want to try it. It is free and the graphics are exceptional. I can't say what the gameplay is like because I have scarcely touched it.
The last few days I have been exasperated with my action games and their difficulty level on 'easy', so I have been playing other genres, like a physics puzzler called Snoticles. It is free and quite fun. It is similar to Angry Birds, but a bit more user friendly. You throw boogers at these black, spiky creatures with red hats, hoping to destroy them all. In answer to your question, yes, I am serious. I am also playing A Monster Ate My Homework and Tiny Defense. Both of these games are free, fun and well done. In the monster game you have to knock these monsters off a platform, into a pond, without dumping your homework into the water. There is considerably less frustration with this game than with Modern Combat 3.
By the way, I saw on the web site called Slide To Play that Shadowgun was coming out with a separate version for multi-player. It is already out for Android, with an IOS version soon to follow. I never play multi-player, except here at the house on local WI-FI, but it will be tempting to buy this one when it comes out.
I have rambled on, just a bit, so I will take my leave from you now and pursue my gaming and weather watching, here at the author's green retreat.
I'm CE Wills.
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