• I got Bionic Commando and I think it is great. I don't know where these 5/10, 6/10 reviews are coming from, the game is a lot of fun. The muliplayer bites though to be honest, sorry guys.
• I got The Chronicles of Riddick Assault on Dark Athena about a month ago and it was a great buy. Escape from Butcher Bay is still a mostly awesome experience and Dark Athena is still good enough to make it worth a purchase. I should really get around to wrap up Dark Athena, I just haven't played it in ages.
• Another game that I have bought was Clive Barker's Jericho for the epic price of £2.50 and while it was worth that much, I wouldn't play much more for it. The game is ok at first but the weapons are so weak and the game is extremely repetitive and simply boring in all honesty. I will probably slog through it some day but it is one of the worst shooters out there for the 360.
• I also got the Sega Megadrive Ultimate Collection and this was an impulse buy but I grew up playing with the Sega Megadrive back in the day so this was a good purchase. Over 40 games for £25 is a good deal. A lot of the games in this pack are still a lot of fun to play like the Streets of Rage games and the Sonic series but some of the games that I thought were great back in the day like Golden Axe suck balls now :P Still, this package has given me the chance to play many games that I never got around ot trying and it's great overall.
• I also bought Kane & Lynch: Dead Men again for the 360 for a mere £5 and I still think that game is still pretty good, flawed but the campaign has many exciting moments and the multiplayer is still a lot of fun.
  

Until next time, see you guys but do you think I should buy Bionic Commando Rearmed if I have never played the original? Would I still like it or should I just skip it? I am just wondering :) Keep it easy.

Hello there y'all! I haven't done one of these so called blog posts recently but I haven't been doing much anyway to be honest with you. I haven't been playing many games and gaming really isn't the main priority of my life at the minute really but I don't mean that in a bad way, I just mean that I haven't had the time. The games that I have been playing the most are both Dark Sector and Wheelman though I did play some Gears of War 2 to see what the new experience system was like it seemed pretty good if you ask me.

Over a week ago, I picked up Dark Sector which is overall a solid but fairly drab game. It starts off well with good game mechanics and plenty of gore but the game runs out of tricks very quickly. While the game seems pretty short, I am on Chapter 7 out of 9 I believe but it feels like I have been playing it for ages. Considering I got it for £5.50, really not that big of a deal and it is a good enough game, just not a great one. The game is just super repetitive in a way that I don't like. The puzzles while aren't too hard, really kill the pace of the game also. Still, I hope to finish that soon because the achievements aren't too bad in it. The multiplayer seems fairly piss too, I hope to maybe get the "No 1. in a ranked match" achievements because they are 30G each but meh.

Another game that I picked up there on Friday was Wheelman. I have to say, this game is one of the most mixed reaction games I can remember, even when the demo first came out. There were several people who really liked the demo, me included and thought it could be a really good game while others hated it and couldn't stand it. Considering I liked the demo so much, I decided to get the game because there isn't much coming out anyway, the next new game is probably going to be The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena which isn't coming out until the end of April over here which is a tad shit to be honest. Overall, I still like Wheelman for what it is. It is a goofy, ridiculous driving game with plenty of action and laughs provided. Some people are bitching about things like the handling but I think it's fine, has moments of frustrating but that's just because I am not very good at driving games. The main complaint seems to be the on-foot sections which GameSpot described them as being "Painfully Bad." Yeah they aren't great but they are functional and they don't bother me too much though the lack of a jump button is silly. My main complaint with the game so far is actually the story, it is really bad, period. I don't know how far I am until the end but I am enjoying the game and I will see how well it turns out. I can see why people would hate the game but if you liked the demo, then check it out.

As said previously, there is nothing really coming out at the moment but this is for the best because I am meant to be studying and all that caper. I was a bit interested in Wanted: Weapons of Fate before but reviews claim it's about 3-4 hours long and that is feckin' ridiculous, no way I am paying full price for that. In the meantime though, I don't think I will play games too often though I will when Easter rolls around soon in the next few weeks. Until then, keep yourself safe.

What are the chances that Wolfenstein 3D will be released on XBLA around the same time the new Wolfenstein game comes do you think? My thoughts are that they better! :)

Hello everyone out there! I hope you had a good weekend and I hope you have a great St. Patrick's Day tomorrow :) This is just all of the stuff that I did last week... check it out! :D

• Finished Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard and I actually liked it a lot more than many different reviewers out there. Don't get me wrong, it is just Gears of War knock off which some annoying weapons but I still liked it for what it was, it was quite a fun game. The humour is weak overall but I did laugh everynow and again so I guess that's good enough. I would recommend this game for rent definitely since it is single-player only and you can get an easy 900+ gamerscore if you are into that sort of thing. I did end up trading Eat Lead for full price which I can't complain about.
• So with that trade in, I got Halo Wars which I do like an awful lot though I am rather shit at it. The only RTS that I was actually any good at was Company of Heroes but I think I will eventually get the knack of this game. The campaign is actually pretty good considering I usually hate RTS campaigns, they are pitiful! But this game is a lot of fun and I think this is by far the best console RTS, bar none.
• On the same day, Peggle was released onto Xbox Live Arcade and I think this is a must try if you are into games that are just satisfying as hell and really fun to play. It is a puzzle game but you don't have to employ much strategy, it's just loads of fun and for 800 points, the price is right. I did play loads of Peggle Extreme back when that was free with the PC version of The Orange Box but it doesn't have the variety that the full game has. I recommend!
• And finally, I managed to get around to playing the Wheelman demo which came out a small while ago and I was actually fairly surprised with how fun that was. It was a nice mix between Burnout and GTA which is a clever and fun combination. I don't know how good the full title will be but for a demo, it was a lot of fun. My only complaints were that the handling will take time to get used to and the character models looked somewhat weird. Vin Diesel looks pretty good but maybe not as good as you might expect. I think fellow Giant Bomb user "toolzz360" said it well on his video where he commented on Vin Diesel "looking high." I completely agree.

Well that is pretty much it but in anticipation of The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, I was wondering should I watch the film Pitch Black? Is it a good movie? I heard it is pretty bad but I want some opinions. I already love Escape from Butcher Bay but I feel a bit dumb liking the games and not the movies. Ah well, you guys take it easy!

Hello there, this is just your regular good ol update. Great stuff!

• Played The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena demo and I thought it was great and I can't wait for it to come out. When people say that the graphics suck, it pisses me off because I think they are really really great.
• Also played the trial for Watchmen: The End is Nigh. It seems like a pretty good beat-'em-up sort of game. I probably would have bought it if it had online co-op but as a result, I will skip it.
• Played the Wanted: Weapons of Fate which is ok at best. The gunplay seems solid but nothing spectacular and the AI seems borderline retarded. Oh well, it could end up being something pretty fun.
• I bought Left 4 Dead for the 360. Yeah weird because I have the PC version but I had no one to play it with so it was a waste really. The 360 version seems pretty good and achievements give reason to play through it over and over.
• I also bought Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. Don't ask me why I felt I needed to play this but it seems pretty appealing judging by gameplay and the plot seemed pretty interesting. Overall, it is a decent game but I really can't see myself holding onto it. I will probably trade it in for something like Halo Wars during the next week and the game is hardly funny. It does not go far enough into the videogame parody arena for it to be funny and most of the jokes are just tame. Still, not too bad, much better than ShellShock 2: Blood Trails actually. Great achievements too :P
  

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  That is all really. I have yet to try out the Wheelman demo which I will do, the reception has been fairly mixed on it and as mentioned, I will probably get Halo Wars this week. Well until next time, see you guys later! :)
  

-Vod