I haven't blogged in about a month, with school and all the new games coming out I haven't really had the spare time to write something up. However I felt like sharing some of my feelings on a couple of this year latest releases.
 
Uncharted 2:
Can't stop playing this! Beat it on normal my first time through, took 11 hours and 40 minutes. Now I'm playing through it again on hard mode to get all of the trophies and money to buy bonus stuff. The game has so much replay value. You get money for earning trophies and doing challenges. You can use this currency to buy single player skins, bonus videos, concept art and even perks for the multi-player. I plan on playing through it on crushing difficultly when I beat it on hard so I can get everything. 
 
The gameplay is much improved over the first one. The shooting, running and ducking into cover all feel so organic and smooth. I really enjoyed the story, it's a great Indiana Jones style high octane adventure. I haven't played much of the multi-player, only one match just to get a trophy. It seemed really fun. It's very similar to Gears of War with it's 5 on 5 elimination mode(no respawns) which is the only mode I played. However when I tried GoW online I just got discouraged because I would be looking around for people to shoot and then all of a sudden I would get a 'sploded from behind by a shotgun. In Uncharted I found that it was alot more forgiving. When I start to get shot a have a decent chance to take cover, unlike in GoW when always get sniped or shotgun'd. This is probably because Uncharted 2 is brand new and Gears of War has been out for much longer. As a result people are better at it then me and I get owned. But I felt like mentioning it anyway, in case any of you feel the same way. 
 
Brutal Legend: 
 The single-player story missions only took me 4 hours and 30 minutes to finish. I went back in and collected everything there is to be collected after beating it though. Just gotta finish those hunting missions. I drove around for 45 minutes and only found 4 out of 16 reaper horses I needed and the ones that have dudes riding on them don't even count if you kill them!!! All frustration aside the main story is a blast. It's funny and has so many great metal characters and units that's it's well worth your time. The only thing is that the multi-player seems like it's the biggest focus of the game. I really don't give a shit about the multi-player and find it to be no fun at all. Let me explain a little. Say you just made 5 units and you want to send just 2 of them to one place . Normally in a RTS you would just click on them and then click where you want them to go. 
 
In Brutal Legend you have to:
fly down next to the unit, 
hold Y to select them,
fly back up ,
hold down on the left bumper,
place a becon where you want them to go,
go near them again,
then click -> on the D-pad to tell them to go there.
 
I strongly feel that the RTS element of Brutal Legend is the weakest part of the game. Which is sad considering it started out as a full blown RTS. 
 
They even have new maps coming out soon.