So this Wednesday I woke up at 7am and waited by my Xbox anticipating the release of Geometry Wars 2, which I have to say was worth getting up at 7am for. I quickly got into leaderboard fever seeing as all the menus display how well your friends have done and where you rank up against them. Its also interesting to see when they did eventually come flocking in, what scores they got and whether they beat any of mine. So anyway, if you haven't bought it already you really should because its definately worth the 800 points. After you've played through everything it does seem to fall flat like the original but again it keeps you coming back for various competitive reasons. One thing I will say that did annoy me however which is the same in Geo Wars 1 is the screen zoom. When playing Waves especially the camera seems way too zoomed in and if you get a wave that comes from the ceiling when your right down the bottom you have about a second to react. While this maybe part of the skill in the game, the Co-op (which is so fun) has the screen zoomed out so you make many less errors. I guess its not so bad seeing that everyone elses is like that, it just does get frustrating.

After many hours with Geometry Wars I decided to buy Soul Calibur IV on launch day and to my surprise it is way better than I expected. The first ever fighting game I owned was Soul Blade for the Playstation which brought back a ton of happy memories. Anyway I have yet to try out the biggest feature, the online, but I have played most of the Singleplayer modes. There is a lot to do when you start with all of the modes open to you, so the first one I tried was Story which funnily enough isn't really heavy on the story. It basically gives you some small background and ends with an epic cutscene but it is also very short, taking about 20 minutes to complete each one. While that may seems short you do have to do it for about 30 characters to unlock everything. The second mode I tried was Arcade which is your standard 8 fights to end which while seems pointless because you don't get anything from it, everytime you play as one character you level up their style and are able to make custom characters. The new mode which serves as most of the games weight is the Tower of Lost Souls where you pick characters and fight your way to the top. While I have yet to get very far, this is where you unlock all of the equipment for your custom characters and there is a lot to unlock. So I still have a lot more to play but Soul Calibur is definately the best fighting game I have played in a long, long time. It seems like a fighting game thats for people who don't normally play them, its very pick up and play and instantly fun no matter which mode your in.

Expect full reviews soon.
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