There sure was a lot of good stuff to see and watch at this year's E3. Only if I was there. Anyway, the bestest games in my opinion and in no real order, just the five best;


1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii

2. Left 4 Dead 2

3. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

4. Just Cause 2

5. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction/ Modern Warfare 2

There are a lot of "#2" sequels on that list. Uncharted is a surprise as I did not play the first one and Splinter Cell I did not care about at all coming into it but that presentation at the Microsoft Press Conference kicked ass. Great show but.... no Half-Life 2: Episode Three!

Day one has been good. The Microsoft and EA press conferences was enjoyable, I was shocked by Left 4 Dead 2 and Forza 3 looks beautiful. I didn't get the chance to watch each of 'em the whole way through, I love my internet connection. But I did pretty much watch the Ubisoft press conference all the way through. The longest of the three, a nice two hours. Best of all it is 3:00 am here now that it is finsihed and you know what? It was awful, but funny and not by that terrible host. From the constant use of the word "tween" and a Frenchman shouting "COOO A BUNGA" after a TMNT trailer it was a weird press conference. James Cameron talked for twenty minutes about Avatar and didn't even show anything, TWENTY FUCKING MINUTES. Pele gibbered on for ages too, yeah I know... that Pele. There was all that Imagine crap with "tween" (shudder) crap. Is this a theme of E3 2009? People taking about audiences that don't know what E3 is, yeah I am looking at you EA Girls. Also cameras are also a big thing, with the one at Microsoft and now Ubisoft. The guy showing Red Steel 2 was on crack, the dude presenting Rabbids Go Home was SOOOO annoying. Rabbids Go Home should win the weirdest trailer ever award. They took away Barack Obama's clothes and he was wearing a pink thong, take that Modern Warfare 2!

So I enjoyed my semi watched Microsoft and EA stuff, but no Half-Life 2: Episode Three *grrr*. If you thought Nintendo's conference from last year was stupid and crap, which it was, then gather around children and feast your eyes on Ubisoft's train wreck of a press conference. Sadly I will miss Sony and Nintendo tomorrow, but hopefully on Wednesday, I can watch 'em without any spoilers or post-conference news. Roll on E3!

Show games!!!!

Did you download the new Operation: Anchorage DLC for Fallout 3? Not great is it? I personally was really looking forward to some more Fallout 3 action but..... OK lets just get this out in the open, Fallout 3's combat is just bad. Its stiff and its clunky. Also what you get for your 12 bones is not much. I finished it in about... hour and a half, two tops. For what! Some armour, a bunch of weapons I already have and the odd stimpack. Whats up with the lack of new custom weapons and crazy ass armour?

So we got two more packs coming and I think I don't have it in me to play more Fallout 3. I love the game, for all of its problems its a great game but the more I play it seems samey and I realised that the combat could have been slicker. We will see what the future packs hold but if they offer what Opearation Anchorage holds, it will be time to shelf Fallout 3. Anyone else out there ready to stomach s'more Fallout?

2009 is now here. The 2008 was a great, for me anyway, game wise. I finally got my Xbox. I still have a big stack of Xbox games from 07 and 08 to get into. Hopefully 2009 will be as good as a year for games as 2008/2007 were. I don't have to many games I am dying to play. Here's a few ones to look forward to,

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2. MadWorld
3. The Conduit (maybe)

Not excatly the biggest list in the world. I have played any Resident Evil games, not to sure on Bionic Commando and I'm not the biggest Street Fighter fan. But still, here's to a new year.