Impressions time again!Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War is so far the only game this generation I had no intention of buying until I got my hands on the demo.  The demo was fun.  Instead of being one dude just mowing down enemies like in the other Koei games, you can control squads of troops, with a rock-scissor-paper relationship with the couple dozen types of squads.  Swords tear apart knives, spears ...

Yes, but the screws they use to bolt the $20 hard drive to the $80 plastic casing must be GOOD screws!

I also quickly came to the conclusion that pliers would work better on screws than screwdrivers when replacing my drive.  Go figure, huh?On the plus side, I got a 250 GB drive for less than the price of a 20 GB drive for the 360, so there's that.  But I'm sure the MS drives use fancy screws that don't disintegrate on contact with other metal.

Impressions time again!First, I got around to Halo 3.  Yes, I know, late to the party.  I was late with the whole series, actually, just recently playing the first two as well.  Note that the impressions for these, thus far, are entirely single player.  Anyway, to sum things up, Halo 1 was very good mechanically, and the outdoor areas in particular was great.  However, a few things that especially bugged ...