To start, I went out and got some games recently...

-First up is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and if you look down a few posts below this one, you'll see my impressions on it. In a nutshell, it was a terrific experience even with the bugs everyone keeps complaining about.

-Next, in a kind of spur of the moment ordeal I picked up Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. I'll admit I'm having a lot of fun with it, though I'm not sure how long i'll be playing it. It just has so many things in it that just annoy the hell out of me that are hard to look past. For one, the animations look terrible. More often than not they won't even show up when you use an ability, and when they do they look rediculous. Another beef I have with it is the graphics are just disappointing. Now i'm not saying they need to go ahead and put in anti-aliasing and all of that because I understand they want a lot of systems to be able to run it, but it really needs some more artistical style. It's so bland. I have some more beefs with it but I won't get too into it here. I am enjoying it for the most part, though. But what it's doing to me is making me want to go play World of Warcraft again... Hmm... No, I refuse to lose another two years of my life. Though those two years were pretty damn fun even though they were spent in a virtual fantasy world...

-Also, I picked up Crysis Warhead and Spore on the same day I got Warhammer. I put in Crysis just to see how it ran, and it seems to run pretty damn good on my machine. Better than the first Crysis, but I wouldn't say by much. Haven't gotten around to actually diving into that, though mostly due to Warhammer.

-But I did play some Spore tonight finally. I had been putting it off for a while, but finally got around to it. Got through the tribal stage in one sitting and am looking forward to starting the civilization stage soon. I wasn't a fan of the tribal stage, though. But the game's charm kept me trucking through. I'm having a lot of fun with it. And it seems like one of those games I'm going to want to play over and over to try out new things. But it's hard to tell when I'll get around to that given the holiday rush is ensuing.

-Oh, and I got Pure but haven't even put it in my 360 yet. Eh, I'll get around to it.

-Alrighty I'll talk to you guys in a bit. (And I'm still planning on doing a video blog but I don't know when yet...)