On the Hunting of Spies
Some of you have expressed some rather extreme enthusiasm over the ultra-hush-hush, super-secret 'Spy-Hunter that I teased in the last iteration of that column. First, thanks so much to all of you who emailed me, you should already have received your confirmation emails certifying that I now have your email address and am distributing it to various email fraud operations and... oh wait, no, I'm not doing that.
I still am not at liberty to let you all in on the secret, but I'm getting pretty antsy about spilling the beans so it's a good thing that I will be able to do just that very soon. Unfortunately, soon is not today. I can assure you that this next secret 'Spy-Hunter will take place on the Xbox 360, which should come as a welcome return to the column's roots after the couple of weeks we spent hassling with PC configurations and server set-ups. Still, we did have fun on the PC, so we'll be getting back to it soon enough and we're hoping we can get some of the GameSpy tech folks to work out some professional ladder tournament systems and all that good stuff so that we can have a genuine contest. Hopefully, this will also enable us to branch out into the RTS genre where you can finally take on our dear PC editor Allen Rausch over the internets (call him a "dirty hippy" when you play him, he hates that because he is neither!).
Cry of Obligation
If there is one thing that I learned from our last 'Spy-Hunter, it's that we were so totally and thoroughly right in choosing Call of Duty 4 as our 2007 Game of the Year! Everybody loves that game! Can I let you all in on my dirty little secret? Promise you won't tell anyone? I didn't beat Call of Duty 4 until just this last weekend.
I know... I know... but here's my excuse: I was playing through it on VETERAN. You know Veteran, right? The difficulty setting that makes Satan hide in the closet where he doesn't have to see the green-illuminated power button on his 360 mock him for the worthless, incapable baby he is? Yeah, that's the one. Anyway, I decided to break down and restart the level that I was stuck on in the Normal difficulty, and then I breezed through it. Unfortunately, I am no Editorial Director Bryn Williams (who, in case you didn't know, earned an astonishing 1000/1000 Achievement points in Call of Duty 4... guess that's why he's the overlord and I am but a peon).
Anyhow, the point that I'm trying to make is that your demands for another 'Spy-Hunter featuring Call of Duty 4 on the Xbox 360 are soon to be answered. I have plans in the works to hold a 'Spy-Hunter featuring the new maps, which my contacts at Activision assure me will be "soon." Keep your eyes on the 360 page for further updates on the CoD4 front!
Now, I'm sure you all understand that every minute that I spend writing this column is another minute that I will never get to spend playing Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, and while my general life experience would lead me to believe that there are plenty of minutes left in my life to finish it, I don't want to take any chances. So, thanks once again for hitting up My So-Called Live, I'll see you all in two weeks... if I don't pwn your face off online before then.
