I woke up about an hour ago and watched a couple of the new trailers that gone up and yeh everything that was shown at the Microsoft event looked pretty impressive. The Crackdown 2 trailer looked great and I really wana know if it was in game cinamatic or CG. While I still have yet to watch some of the other trailers I can't wait for forza 3 and i heard Alan Wake looks good to , we got a release date to boot. I really wana know more about Halo reach and MGS Rising, thought i'm finding it odd its called Metal Gear Soild and not just Metal Gear. Its most likely that Snake will be involved with the story in one way shape or form. . I'm still expecting Metal Gear remake or at least something between Metal Gear Soild 3 and Metal Gear story at some point due to the Big Boss thing.

But I wan't to to talk about Left 4 Dead 2 and yeh when I first heard about it I was like great but after watching the trailer and some gameplay footage I'm totally not impressed anymore. It looks like Left 4 Dead a game that yes while the core gameplay was good the content was pretty piss poor. Now there releaseing a brand new game with get this ? 5 CAMPAINS !!!! thats 1 more then last good fucking job valve you be able to put 1 more campain then last time. Ive always belived a lot of people gave Left 4 Dead an easy ride cause hey its Valve you know the guys that seem to care about making there games but how can anyone defend this move. I mean how can someone go oh look another tomb raider game or look another need for speed , they keep churing them out when L4D is'nt even a year old, hell its only just over half a year. Even then it looks more like a content update! you know the thing people been asking about so they can actully have more to what was very little in the first.

Right now I'm more angry about the fact it seems there done with L4D which yeh it might not be the case and they may have a whole heap of content planned out for the coming months. But even then come on, people who seen the gameplay know that this looks no different to the first, I mean NO DIFFERENT and if another person goes oh well its in Day light now i'm really going to have to punch them in the face. Its early days yet and i'n praying for them to say that they have a ton of content coming out or hey guess what people who brought L4D will get the second at a major discount but at the moment my hopes aren't that high. Like a ton of people of said , this just doesn't seem like the Vavle we know and love and my rage has now turned out to sadness :(. brb gona go cut my wrists.

so yeh apprantly Sackboy is living in my house at the moment. If you did'nt know the guys who made LBP had a competition to win one of these little guys. All you had to do was be one of the first 5000 to subscribe to there youtube channel and send them a email with your details. It was as easy as that and It also seemed that not many people new about this so they weren't gone with in like a day which is how fast i expect these things to go because there actully pretty well made to boot.

Guess I have to thank a couple of people who made a post about it on the fourm about 2 weeks ago or I would of never heard about this at all. I should think there still sending these things, I would of thought i been at the end or end of the line of the 5000 so i think there going to probs gona be a couple more batches to send out yet. So if you still haven't got one yet it might just be on its way.

Also the fable 2 DLC that came out this week is duff but I wana keep this all about sackboy for now so I talk about that another time. So see you next time :) .

So its been a while since i did a blog and well i play quite a few games and there some things i want to get off my chest. So first about a month or 2 back my 360 finally died and it wasn't the rrod (E74 error) so it wasn't covered by the rrod warranty so like yay.... Anyway i tried to fix it myself cause thats the kind of person i am and i got it to turn on once before it decided it needed to leave and go to the place where all machines go to die, the tip. So it wasn't great news even more so that It fucked up the week i got fable 2 which i have to say is one of the best games i played in a long time but more on that later. So i was thinking did fable cause it because it been fine till then. Anyway i decided to go and get a new one the same week and its been good ever since. I decided against going for a elite at the last minute becasue I didn't really need it so i got the arcade and I have to say its does feel much better built then then the old model which is good. I still belive that rrod and scatching disks ect is still more caused by how one treats the console. A couple of weeks back watchdog did somthing about 360 scatching disks which wasn't a untold story to start with, I thought most people understood that if you have it up instead of down its more likely to scatch anyway. I mean hell if they really wanted a story they should of went with the E74 error because i read about that a ton of people got it the same week I did.

Anyway now im going to quickly just list all the new games i brought now Kotr 1 and 2, Fable 2 ,Battlefield BC, COD5, Shadowrun,Smackdown vs raw 2009. I may have missed one or 2 there but oh well. So i want to talk about each game as quickly as i can. So lets start with Fable 2 cause its most likely going to take the longest.

So Fable 2 was by far out anything i played last year the best game. (game of 2008 imo , only 3 months late XD) and I can't really give you a good reason why. I think mostly because it was the first real game that the things i did really did make me actully think and actully did chance the game unlike a lot of the other so called moral choices u get in other games. The cast is just great and maybe because imo is a very british game is why i like it so much. People like Zoë Wanamaker (My family) and Stephen Fry (Blackadder , a Bit of Fry and Laurie and yes that is Hugh Laurie if you your wondering) are all Legends of British TV. I don't really have one bad thing to say about the game either , the story is great, the combat while simple works really well, The Dog much more useful then u think (really go play Fable 1 and find out for yourself) and it was just a great game , expect a review from my self sometime soon.

Right next is Bad Company, Is it good ? Yes, is it as good as BF2? Nope. I don't wana get into this to much But I've had this problem where any BF game that comes out is always been good but never battlefield 2 good and i don't really know why that it is. I mean don't get me wrong Bad Company is no a sub par game but it just doesn't have the kind of bang that even 2142 maybe its cause i grew up with Battlefield games being on the PC and PC is always where its going to best , maybe its simply just not as good. I don't really know but I think I'm going to go back and play it a bit more before i make my mind up.

I guess i should talk about COD5 and again its the same deal with BFBC really, its good but its always going to be in its big brother shadow , that being COD4. I think i talked about it a lot but i always knew it wasn't going to be nearly as good as COD4, Final word its still the same old shit no matter what stuff u put into into it, zombies were pretty cool thought . (everyone hope on zombie train people)

Smackdown i get to down to a little later on when i talk wm25 and other wreslting stuff. I also need to put more time into Kotr a bit more but from what i played of 1 , i really didn't enjoy it at all. I think am about an hour in or so but dam i just don't know. Maybe i give it a little more time but i did end up playing mass effect again.

So i made a review on gs and give it a score of 5.6 or somthing like it cause i really hated it. After playing the Kotr game i hate it a lot less. More so that in fact i ended up playing the whole game which i admit it was pretty good. So i'm going to redo the review i did a year or 2 back and put it here. Even thought I did enjoy it more, a lot of my points still stand today. The controls are'nt great , cover system still doesn't feel right, your AI are still pretty fucking stupid and we won't go in to the vehicle controls but I tell you , if they can sort out them problems in Mass Effect 2 then oh boy it could be a really great game which i'm now looking forward to.

Right so on to Smackdown vs raw then and well idk really. Its still Smackdown and plays well and the controls work well. And the new Tag team options are pretty good. But its seems with smackdown now its always two steps forward and one step back, they do some really great things but let down one thing which is just down to lazyness in the end. This year is still the case while the done all these small improvements they really let them selfs down in others. The new area layout for a fact has taken a step back all the way to 06 , that little bit where you could go out into the crowd is now gone which really does suck, The commtery is still so lame which you can't blame on THQ tbh but still its fucking annoying as hell. The voice acting in this is so lame thought by far Mr Kennedy put the most into while all the others maybe from 1 or 2 just sounded so wooded and fake.  

Which brings me to the RTOW which sounds good and works and paper but again it sucks tbh. No matter how much to story mode sucked in the past it was always fun to take your caw in there and play that why now your stuck with cena, cm punk and a couple of other storylines , its wouldn't be so bad but the acting like i said sounds awful and just get boring. And instead of gm mode or or the normal story mode we have career mode which has sucked all the fun but you need to do it if you want to build up your caw and even give it abitlys like diveing from the ropes ect.  I haven't tried the online but i'm guessing at bad as ever. Its seems to be the problem with smackdown they try all the new ideas and such but when it comes to things the fans ask for like better online or backstages ect they never do it, Its a shame really.

Speaking of wreslting i wanted to talk a little about TNA and the WWE. For starters what has happend to TNA they gone totally downhill they PVP apart from the last have been totally crap , they can't seem to keep a storyline for 2 mins or just make a totally U turn into insane land. The gimmicks again what the hell. It goes on and on. The booking has been so poor lately really thought and yeh i mean Sting vs Mick Foly at Lockdown i mean come on they great sure but here the thing sting in ring skills have been lacking bad as of late and Mick Foly hasn't really been in a real match in like 3 years i mean have kurt angle vs sting or joe vs sting . I mean i can really see someone fall over dead in this match.

WWE storylines as of late have been pretty good which is a surpise the Hbk and JBL thing was good and now im really looking forward to watching the Taker and Hbk match because of the build up. Y2J and the Legends has to be one of the better ones they done in a while and Orton HHH storyline has been great as well. Still they somethings i don't get , There use Rey mysterio thought has not been all that great mind , they just don't seem to have a clue what they want to do with him which makes me feel sorry for him , same with Christian as well even thought i can understand him going to ECW it be intreasting to see what happens at wm25 and the draft.

Anyway i been watching the persona 4 thing and man i really wana play it now so i think i might go and pick up on my next vist to the city. Well i guess this well do for now , Its has been a while since i did a blog and they and ton of stuff thats happened i forgot to write about but i try and get on a bit more now . anyway laters .

So i've been thinking about what my game was of 08 and its really hard. I think thought i brought the group down to 3 which are MGS 4, GTA 4 ,WOW WOTLK. So while i ponder over these 3 for a while i think i speak about the games i didn't pick starting with Left 4 Dead.

The reason L4D isn't in the top 3 is also the same reason why i nearly didn't put it in the list at all. You see when i made this list i knew L4D would'nt be my game of year even while playing it more over the past 2 weeks. You see at some point in L4D i just went ok so this is it. I said it in my review that compared to everything on the list even castle crashers for that matter there just is'nt enought in there to keep my playing. All the games on the list i see having a replay vavle of say near 3 or more months meaning i can see my self in these 3 months play these games quite a lot while L4D I don't. I think L4D is a great idea and the gameplay is fun but I just can't see myself playing it again and again for 2 or 3 months in its current state. Tbh it nearly made it into the list for most dissapointing game but i decided agains't that in the end

                                                                                                                                                  



LIttle Big Planet was the game i think i may have spent the least amout of time with in the list and reason much like L4D it just get old after a while. While not as bad as L4D, little big planet after a while just gets kind of boring, sure you my get luckly and find 1 or 2 great levels every so often but gets annoying after a while just playing crappy level after crappy level. I guess thought this is what happens when you give people the tools to create stuff. Even so there was not else quite like Little Big Planet last year, it was by far the most orignal game to come out and its cute design and just all around colourfulness which you don't find in many games these days made it stand out which  does make it one of the top games of last year.  


                                                                                                                             
By far Smash Bros Brawl was game i really wanted this year and when i found of Europe got scewed in the release date i could'nt wait. So as soon as it was released in the US i imported a copy right away. So why is not in my top 3 Let me say along with Burnout that both were in my top 5 but compared to the other 3 it just was'nt as good. It still the best Wii game out and will probs stay that way for the rest of the Wii life but when i compare it to the others well lets just say in a race where there gold , silver and bronze the guy in 4th did really well but just was'nt as good as the top 3. Burnout was much the same case to.
                                                                                                                                             

Its odd because i thought for a while Castle Crashers might have been my game of 08 but again in the end i had to compare it to the others and while i love the gameplay and style i just can't give it game of year much like Brawl and Burnout.  So as you see i always knew it would be either WOTLK, GTA4 or MGS4 in the final list mainly due to the fact the blew everything else away. Now i have to choose which is my top game of 08 which is actully harder then i thought it be.

Even thought IMO i thought 2008 was the year of underpreforming games my top 3 proved that in a see of ok and crappy games there were some massive hitters this year i guess i just thought there would have been more. Ive been playing GTA again on the playstation to see what it like again and i'm going to try and get around to playing MGS4 again this week to make a desison but i think its now much like most other people think a race between GTA4 and MGS4.

So its been a while since i posted a blog but im hear to post my year in review so first i like to show you all the new games that came out in 08 i brought

• Burnout Paradise 
• Frontlines Fuel of War
• Rainbow Six  Vegas 2
• Grand Theft Auto 4
• DBZ burst Limit
• Smash Bros Brawl
• Rock Band 
• Dawn of War Soulstorm
•  Crisis Core

• MGS4
• Warhammer MOC , Battle March
• Soul Calibur 4
• Castle Crashers
• Viva Pinata Trouble In Pardise
• Warhammer online
• Red Alert 3
• WOW Wrath of the Lich King
• Left 4 Dead
• Little Big Planet

So there were all the games i brought that came out this, also brought a number of games that came out in 07 but we will talk about them later. So using these and a few other games i made a group for which i thought were great games and maybe not so much. Up first is most dissapointing game of 08

Most Dissapointing game of 08

• Mirror Edge
• Warhammer Online
• Tomb Raider Underworld

• Sonic Unleased

And the Winner is Mirror Edge. Seeing Mirror's Edge for the past year or so i was really looking forward to. Everything looked really good and it even looked like game of the year. Hell even the demo was fun but that about as much fun as you have. You see at some point one guy said what would make this game better , the other said GUNS (lame) so in old EA style they think that everyone wants gunplay. Here the the problem , this is not a gun game and it even tells you to avoid combat but that pretty hard to do seeing it puts enemys in your way a lot , guns also handle like crap. Added by its trial and error game play meaning keeping doing this stupid jump that we making even hard to do due to our controls and its lame story the game totally flopped not only imo but in sales to. So its sad for everyone really, Its really sad because the idea is great but taken that idea and turning it into a game has not really worked all that great. Its not the worst game to come out this but it made me verry sad. Second place was Warhammer Online.

Worst game of 08

• Playstation Home
• Sonic Unleased
• Frontlines Fuel of War

The winner is Home to put it simply i was talking to a guy that said second life is for retards and home is an upgrade to the ps3. Uhh home is Second Life infact home is worse then second life. Its only be a week after it went open beta and nearly every item in th game costs real money. Home is in fact a breeding ground for grifers and retards, Nealy ever single female avatar (note 75% are probs not female) get spamed with friend requests or stalked by  male avatars. Also it seems people who enjoy home may have problems because there fucking idiots. just go into the game area place or even the open place and just stand there a read people text , its so sad its almost funny. The only good thing i say about home is that i don't need it to play games on my ps3 (thank god). But dear good do your self a favor and keep away unless want to gief then go ahead.

Best Game Of 08

• MGS 4
• GTA 4
• WOW WOTLK
• SSBB
• Little Big Planet 
• Left 4 dead
• Castle Crashers
• Burnout Paradice

The winner is - Coming soon


I post the winner after the 25th has gone so i guess that do for now, Anyway Happy Christmas everyone.