Greetings from Maryland! As some of you may or may not have noticed, a few weeks ago I was away from Giant Bomb because my parents and I moved from the state of Maine, where I've lived all my life, down to the home state of Bethesda Softworks: Maryland. This is the biggest move I've been on, and it was quite a slow process getting here. We were able to get some packers to come to our old house and put everything into boxes, which literally took about 6-7 hours. We spent the entire day waiting outside while they did their thing. That was not fun at all. After that, we have movers come over a few days later to take all the boxes and load them onto this huge 18 wheeler. Unfortunately, they arrived about an hour late, so we didn't begin our 8 hour drive until around 4:00 PM, which was a bit of a bummer. While we were driving (my dad took his car; I rode with my mom. We communicated with walke-talkies) I listened to a Bombcast and read some of the book I was in the middle of, Flyboys. At around 9:00 at night, we had to stop at a hotel for the night because my mom literally could no longer see the road. There was a large swan standing outside of the rooms that walks up to you. My dad went to pet it, and the swan went for his testicles. We finished our trip the next day. So, instead of provide every single detail of the move, let's get onto the games that I played during the two or so weeks that I was away.

First off, I got some Microsoft Points. 1600 to be exact.

Red Faction: Guerilla

Along with the points I got Red Faction: Guerilla, which happens to be an amazing game. I was turned on by the Geo-Mod 2.0 engine, which is simply outstanding. Being able to smash apart buildings brick by brick is one of the most satisfying things in a video game, and hardly ever gets old. While I thought single player was decent, the real magic in my opinion lies in the multiplayer. It's astonishing how much fun I've had with the multiplayer in that game. There is an obscene amount of things to unlock, multiple different challenges, lots of weapons and special Backpacks, and more. Red Faction: Guerilla has some of the funnest multiplayer I've played in a while.

Battlefield 1943

Ah, I remember the Battlefield 2 days. I spent such a long time playing that game, and what's really outstanding is how I was able to compensate for the constant lag, glitches, and bugs that came from my non-gaming laptop that I ran it on. Bad Company was a lot of fun, although the two games seem drastically different. Despite Battlefield 1943 being pretty damn small, it is a fun game. It even manages to keep up some of the classic Battlefield traditions, such as being abandoned by your teammates on the aircraft carrier and having to swim to the battle! Any fan of Bad Company will most definitely enjoy this game, while people looking to go to 1943 from one of the PC Battlefields will probably loathe it.

Geometry Wars Retro Evolved

Because I only had 400 points left after installing Battlefield 1943, I decided to buy my first arcade game. I made that game Geometry Wars Retro Evolved. This game is a load of fun, but is probably the most challenging thing I've ever played. My current high score is around 285,000; I have no clue how I managed to get that high. I took a look at the highest scores in the world and nearly passed out. 600,000,000 points? As if. Still, I will practice some more and try to keep playing it whenever I can to see if I can break 300,000 points, and maybe get even higher.

Well, that's all for this week. Hopefully I won't have any more disappearences or internet loss so I can keep this up. It would be nice to have more than 2 blogs in a row.

Until next time, children.