X-Wing on the iphone seems like a no brainer to me. I know they have a version of the Force Unleashed coming to it, but it seems like the wrong game for the platform. All they would need to do to make it work is add a "throttle bar", like the slide to unlock bar, and a couple buttons to fire and we are off and running. The upside to the touchscreen is you can place stuff wherever plus you could toggle the graphic off and on. The idea of no "control HUD" in the game works for me, it leaves more gaming space.  

I really had no interest in Crackdown initially, all I could get from the screenshots was a dude picking up a car, neat. The art style didn't grab my attention at all. All that changed when the demo landed on Xbox Live, loved it, in fact pre-ordered it the next day. The Halo 3 beta suddenly was on the backburner. Many hours were spent looking for those damn Orbs, it should have been annoying, but in reality a total blast. The leveling up aspect of the game was brilliant, you could always do something you couldn't do an hour before. Driving was a pleasure once you got your skill up... all in all an amazing game that was sorely overlooked. I know it sold a bunch of copies, but how many actually played the game to completion? They totally missed out.

Realtime Worlds just need to spend more time on the Story and they will have a stellar game that could hang with the best of the best. I hope that they really do make Crackdown 2... might just have to fire the original up tonight.

Good afternoon peeps, hope your day is treating you well. I recently picked up the Metal Gear Solid PS3 Bundle for you guessed it, MGS4. The Playstation brand and I have a love / hate relationship. In the last Generation of consoles I was clearly an Xbox user, I thought the controller was better (still do) and the games looked much nicer than the PS2 counterpart. My main problem with the PS2 was the controller, I found it really uncomfortable to use. I love FPS games and the PS2 wasn't cutting it, sadly it became my least used console ever. Looking back it bums me out because I missed quite a few good games, the MGS series for example. Fast forward to the current generation, I love my 360. When they announced the PS3 I was stoked, but honestly for the first 2 years there was nothing I was interested in playing. Factor in the lack of rumble, why the hell would I want that? 360 is awesome.

Fast forward again to about 3 weeks ago:

The MGS Bundle was perfect, it had the 80 gig - tricked out PS3, MGS4 and the new Dual Shock 3. I took it out of the box and was shocked at how nice and solid the unit is. Built in Wi-Fi is a nice touch, I have yet to play a Blu-Ray movie - Netflix here I come. Now for the shocking part, I love the Dual Shock. Did they make it larger? It feels great, now with triggers! Too bad MGS4 didn't use them for shooting. I am happy to be part of the Playstation family again, with all the new games coming out (I just bought Resistance) and PSN's future looking bright. I'm stoked.

Who'd a thunk it?

Deus Ex
Max Payne
Quake
Landstalker
Super Star Wars Series
KOTOR
Battletoads
Jedi Knight 1 & 2
Rampart

Hi, i'm Phil, just a gamer who happens to write music for the best gaming site in the world, Giant Bomb. I have been playing games since I was like 5 years old. (Cue time travel music) I remember the first time I ever saw an arcade machine, Pac-Man in fact. My family was at the TG&Y in Lawrence, KS, I am pretty sure I was trying to get my parents to buy me a Star Wars action figure when I noticed these amazing sounds coming from a room by the checkout lanes. I went in and was blown away, games with these crazy colors and sounds. My dad had a pong machine, so to see these really amazing looking games in color was exciting. I had to play, and play I did.  As strange as it may sound.. I was a changed man..well kid. Pretty soon after we got an Atari 2600, my friends and I played the hell out of that thing. A few years later we upgraded to the new Atari 5200 with the most insane controller ever. Enjoyed that as well, but not to the same level as the 2600. At the time gaming was on the decline, my interest went away for a little while.

My return to gaming was the NES. I remember being at Oak Park Mall in Kansas City and the Kay-Bee Toys there had a promotional poster for this new system that had a Robot that came with it. Being a dreamer, I had hoped that R.O.B. would be your gaming buddy and help you out with stuff. Boy was I wrong. I had to find out, so I saved up all summer by mowing neighbor's lawns. Eventually I had enough to pickup my new system, when I got home I was treated to Super Mario Bros, I couldn't believe how amazing it looked. It had the graphics of the stand-up arcade machines, on top of that, the game was amazing. Again, my friends and I would talk for hours about the stuff we found in games like Zelda, Rygar, and how amazing Double Dribble was because it had an animation of your dunk. Wow, I am sounding really old, but I'm not...