i spent the last 5 hours working on a video blog.  My camera outputs videos into quick time files so i need to convert them useing website.  So this was my schedule list
-write up vlog notes-15 minutes
-film and edit-45 minutes
- trying to pick right file type to convert to and had 8 corrupted files- 4 hours
So now i need to go out and buy a good video camera or web cam with a good microphone!
-jason
 

1) passed state exams required to graduate high school

2) won a t-shirt off  Citizengame.co.uk

3) also doing free lance work for Citizengame.co.uk

4) finally got drivers permit

Hands down best day ever!

            You start with a rather simple tutorial “Look left, look right, jump, good doggy”, you get the standard assault rifle and melee attack.  Yet you’re suit is equipped with possibly the coolest game gimmick of the year, a terraforming beam.  With a press of the RB button you raise the ground up to make barriers between enemy fire, to reach

Un- reachable areas and to send enemies flying in the air.  With a press of the LB button you make pot holes in the ground to get to underground areas and to make enemies fall to there death.  While I had fun messing around for the 20 odd minute demo, I doubt the game can keep these powers refreshing for a rumored 8 to 10 hour single player experience. 

            The controls feel solid in the sense that they didn’t bother me and responded well.  Graphically this game is good and character models (in cinematic) look crisp but not to the point of comparing it to anything like the source engine.  Now my complaints lie with the AI and the weapons.  The AI rode the short buses the whole way through the demo, in the sense that there dumb as fuck.  Enemies ran right at me and I plowed them down with the boring (except for one) weapons.  The coolest weapon in the demo was the ST4 missile launcher, it only has two shots before reloading yet when fired the missile goes into the ground (a light beam comes out of the ground showing you were it is) and you press X when you want to detonate it. 

            The brief bit of the story is that the antagonists used to work with you’re boss and now is on the lamb trying to take over the world.  Fracture is defiantly worth downloading just to play around with the physics yet I suspect relatively low scores (such as Starwars: Force unleashed, Lucas Arts recently released title.) I predict 6.9-7.5.  Fracture is coming out for Xbox 360 and PS3 on October 7.

(played on the XBOX360)

So this weekend i finally got my computer fixed and it been close to one year sense it’s been broken (i'm lazy) yet i still need to install my video drivers and some other stuff but it’s nice to finally have internet in my room.  Spent most of the afternoon buying music and uploading my cd's and adding my favorite websites. 

So this weekend is double XP weekend for call of duty 4 and I have to say I’ve been taking advantage of it.  I spent literally 4 or 5 hours yesterday (not in one sitting, that would be mad!) and gained maybe 8 levels.  Played a little with Ish and gearhead(dan) lots of fun thanks guys.
    In other news ill soon be writing for Epicbomb (steve), player 1 and some other people's web site called Gameportrait.com so check it out later this month when it launches.

            Bionic Commando Rearmed is a remake of the original highly successful NES game Bionic Commando, with refined graphics, spanking new/re-mastered soundtrack and new co-op game play.  You play Nathan "Rad" Spencer who has had one of his arms replaced with a bionic arm.  Nathan uses this arm to rappel from ledges, deflect bullets and even pick up enemies and hurl them off ledges.  Your mission is to find a captured ally from the evil rival army, while the story is quite plane this wouldn’t be a true port if there was a long rambling story. 

            The mission select screen is broken up into enemy territories and ally basses while enemy patrols travel from each territory each time you move.  The enemy territory’s play a lot like that of the Mega Man games (another one of Capcom’s games) all the levels have a similar formula.   Run threw a horde of enemies, contact your HQ at the occasional computer monitor and fight a seriously creative boss.  While the formula is repetitive the game is still enjoyable with the introduction of new enemies, slick

environments and creative boss fights. 

            The sound track is one of the best parts of BC:R, it has elements that bring you back to the old days of bleeps and bloops of NES games yet has modern age twist to it.  The newest edition to BC:R thou is the local co-op and competitive multiplayer over xbox live.  Co-op is truly something every one should try; the second play is intergraded perfectly and truly gives you another reason to play through the single player.  While the co-op is great Competitive multiplayer is very frustrating and boring.  Swing around and shooting weapons works well while fighting the dumb AI yet when fighting your friends it makes hitting each other quite challenging. 

8.5

(800ms=$10)

Download the soundtrack at Itunes 

Street fighter Alpha 3 Max(PSP)

    So while I was writing my Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX (PSP) I decided to take a break and go out to the movies with some friends.  lo and behold they all wanted to go see Tropic Thunder ,me being the critic I am (laughs) I was very skeptical hearing that a large portion of the movie was nothing more than retard jokes and fart jokes.  Yet surprisingly for 85% I was laughing out loud and Robert Downey Jr. was hysterical.  Unfortunately Jack Black and Ben Stiller were not nearly as funny as I expected them to be.  After arriving home decided that I dint want to type so I popped in a few movies I had received from NetFix.
-Tropic Thunder
 B+   Go see this movie
- Dirty Harry
A-   
-Donnie Brasco
B+
After watching all these movies I was quite famished…….that’s right it takes allot of some people.  So I decided to look in fridge and saw there was nothing but a pack of chicken.  So I spent the next 45 minutes making breaded chicken fingers.  After making the chicken I threw extra breading into the frying pan and sprinkled diced garlic n it and topped the chicken with it. Quite delish I mite say so and I washed it down with some great Irish cider I had lying around (Magners!).  Any way  expect the review in the next couple of days.

During part of my vacation I stumbled upon a used dvd, video game and book store were I found some amazing deals.  

So far I’m not really digging Unreal Tournament 3 on the Xbox 360, the frantic style of game play and huge ridiculous maps really turn me off.  I tried playing the third capture the flag mission in campaign and spent nearly hour before I said “fuck this”.  I also hate the hover board which if you get shot while on it, you go flying off and it takes a good 5 or 6 seconds to get back on it. 

      After I gave up on single player I jumped into the multiplayer because I mean come on who plays UT for the single player, unfortunately it takes for ever to find a match and connect and by the time you connect its over or there’s 2 kills left.  From reading my impressions you probably think I’m going to give this game a low score but im thinking about giving it a 7,because when you finally connect and find people your own skill level UT 3 is one fucking fun game.  

In other news I can’t freaking wait for BCR to come to Xbox live arcade, I haven’t played the original one but this one looks incredibly fun. 

--August 13: Bionic Commando Rearmed (800 MS points / $10)

This will be my last blog for 2 weeks because I’m going on vacation and won’t have a computer.  I’ll be around for two more days to read and comment on your blog’s and stuff, so keep on gaming and ill post again when I get back.

-jason