Skip to main content

Shadowgun Tip


    Hey, everyone. It's a cold, snowy night, here at the green retreat. I have a fire going in the fireplace and I have been playing some games. I haven't played Shadowgun in quite a while. I was stuck on the Leftover Expansion Pack at the place where there doesn't seem to be any way to get into the control room with the glass wall. You could see several things inside that were lit up. For instance, the large blue gear which we are so used to seeing was in there. Well, I discovered that you have a yellow bullseye thing on the right side of the control room. You have to shoot that thing, through the glass. Make sure the red target is lit when you shoot it, just as you would on a human target. When you shoot the yellow bullseye the side door opens and you can go into the room. Heck, I had tried lobbing grenades through the fan and everything else.
   Once inside the room, John Slade closes a steam valve. This allows that red hot pipe to cool off. Lo and behold, when you return to the area of the pipe, there is a green, neon emblem of a running man there above the pipe. I tried shooting it but the game wants you to walk under it. When you do, a gear appears and you tap the gear. This causes you to fall through the floor and enter another level. It's a level where some of Toltec's geeks are tinkering with green vats full of goo, genetic code and who knows what else? Before you can get into that room, you must walk across a pipe and disable a force field.
     When you get inside the room with the geeks, they run away and call for a bunch of mercenaries. A battle royal ensues and it is a tough one. It seems that you die much easier in this level and I am beginning to think it is because there are cannisters of explosives which you are foolishly hiding behind. I had killed all of the first wave of bad guys once, then had to go back and start over.
    I am stuck again, as I am on so many other games. I will say, though, that it has been a treat to play Shadowgun again, with its amazing graphics and smooth gameplay. It is special.
    I think I'm going over to I-Tunes and watch Paul McCartney's concert. I understand that the songs are more like the songs from the era before the Beatles. More of a Tony Bennett style. It doesn't matter to me. I am very fond of Paul and I look forward to watching this 'made for the web' show. So I'll bid you goodnight from the author's green retreat.
    I'm CE Wills.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

It's So Easy

     Hey, everyone, out there in etherland. I've been playing some new songs this morning on my keyboard. You may remember a Buddy Holly tune called It's So Easy . I hadn't matched the title to the song before today so I was delighted when I saw that it was the one that goes like this: "It's so easy to fall in love, it's so easy to fall in love." It rocks pretty good. A later version of it, after amps and guitars had improved, really rocked. It seems like Joan Jett may have done a version. Anyway, I was playing this song and I thought about a fun thing I like to do. Sometimes I'll start to play a song and tell Carley, or the grandkids, whoever may be there, a silly story about it.      For instance, I would say that once upon a time Buddy Holly came to me and said, "CE, I need a hit, my man. The kids need shoes. I want to go on American bandstand, you know what I'm saying?"     "Yeah, Buddy, I hear you. But the thing is, I think ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Movie Review: Limitless

    Hey, everyone. I ventured off the mountain today, down into the haunts of men. I'll tell you about a movie I saw, then later I'll tell you about some other stuff. The movie is Unlimited . This is a story that you would have to call science fiction, but in the not so distant future you may call it reality.      Bradley Cooper plays Edward Morra. If you looked up loser in the dictionary you would see this guy's picture. He has freeloaded off his girlfriend for years. He claims to be a writer but can't seem to put words on paper. His woman leaves him; he is a scroungy, dirty dude with no future, no drive and no money. He is about to be evicted from his scummy apartment.     Then he bumps into an old friend. The friend wants him to try a new drug which comes in the form of a small, clear pill. What Edward doesn't know is that the pill is pretty awesome. The drug is designed to unlock the true potential of the human brain. We only use a...
4 comments
Read more

Dr. Simon's Exoskeleton (Shadowgun)

    Hey, everyone. Nice to be back with you after a tough, hectic week. We have had some snow, sleet, fog, drizzle, torrential rain and flooding this week.      I'd like to talk, yet again, about Shadowgun , the shooter game for I-Padster. I was much further along than what I thought when I posted about some of the battles yet to be faced for those of you who had just killed the Driller. The fact is that I am on the last level. This level has Dr. Simon, the resident evil nutcase, inhabiting a monstrous, powerful robot. His brain resides in a bubble on top, much like a cherry on a hot fudge Sunday. (Yes, I am still on my eating binge) It is a tremendous fight because you not only have to kill this huge semi-person, but there are a bunch of mutant guards, flying drones etc. to deal with at the same time. I had played the darn level about thirty times and decided to check out someone else's battle. So I went to You-Tube and typed in, Dr. Simon Exoskelet...
5 comments
Read more