Call of Duty: World at War Has Been Won!

I beat Call of Duty: World at War. I just got the game not even a month ago so this is why I'm just now beating it. So after Call of Duty 4 people weren't too happy that the series would return to it's Nazi killing ways. I didnt really mind since I like the WWII atmosphere. This Call of Duty is the closest to the excellence of COD2 quality wise. This game does somthing really different from the past WWII games and that is that it focuses on the grusome side of things. This game shows that it wasn't just 60million people running at each other with guns. Insted it shows people getting burned alive, people climbing trees, and people who surrender getting shot up. Like this one part I wont forget is our squad was said to take back a city. We did that and the Nazi forces retreated running to a underground bunker that is then blocked off by bars. Well lets just say a few Nazis didn't make it in time and were stuck in the stairway. Our squad (6 people) then surrounded the stairway and we all through a grenade down towards them. Stuff like this happens all of the time in the game and I like that they took the game this way. Now for the gameplay, this game is COD4, every gun can pretty much be matched up with a gun in COD4. Even the single players story follows a similar plot line as COD4. Basically what I'm saying is 

if you liked COD4 you'll like Call of Duty: World at War. The multiplayer is still the same as COD4, you get the perks and all of the other stuff. As far as I can tell there the same perks. So in the picture to the right you have the old claymore vs the new bouncing betty. This picture show how well you can see it. As you can see the bouncing betty is nearly immposible to see especially against brown colored surroundings. with the claymore atleast you could see the red ray around the corner. With the bouncing betty you can't see anything. Another thing that I find funny about Infinity Ward VS Trearch is IW favors the M1 Garand and TA favors the Kar 98 as in its stronger in there own game. So I played this game on the PS3 it has a install of 60MB so basically nothing. The game runs in 720p, 1080i, and 1080p. Doesnt supprt DTS :-( though the sound is very good and lives up to the COD standard. The Multiplayer supports up to 18. The game also has online co-op where you kill nazis with up to 3 friends plus after that you can kill them again in Zombie form which is hella fun! The downside, the multiplayer is a little broken. Its hard to get a party together, if host leaves, the game ends just like in COD4. For any game this gen that is horrible and I hope IW fixs that in COD6. The game is alot of fun really worth the $60 though it is more of the same. So if you are really tired of COD4 you might want to wait to pick this one up. It sucks Treyarch isn't fixing the problems with the multiplayer, but hey what can you do? Also here is a comparison of the two games. 

9.8

       

Three Months of Seven

So it has been 3 months since I first installed the Windows 7 beta. Really it was just to see what all of the buzz was about. I didn't think Windows Vista was was bad at all. Yea it didn't run real well on older hardware but hey you can't expect everything to work on everything forever. So right now the laptop I'm using is a shit ass Compaq. It came with Windows Vista Home Basic and 512MB of ram. Since then I upgraded it to 2Gb of ram and that really helped out a lot and made Vista very able on this little computer. The laptop has a Intel Celeron M at 1.6Ghz. Its basically a netbook but fucking huge and blows out scalding heat. So as I first downloaded Windows 7 I was going to install it on a separate partition but that wasn't working so well. So I just installed Windows 7  right over Vista. At first I was extremely nervous, I have only done this once and that was from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 plus I had some help, so I really wasn't sure what to expect. But like every other program you just hit install and OK 20 times till you see a progress bar ^_^ At first it was horrible all of these programs weren't working, my Zune wouldn't Sync, all of my Music was gone and I was pretty pissed. But Win7 fixed it all on its own except the Zune thing, which I had to run it as administrator and it was fixed. Then overall the benefits of Win7 kicked in. The computer was faster, I could run more than 2 things at once, it didn't take 4 minutes to boot up, it was fantastic. Now this really gets me thinking with Mac users still saying Win7 is worse than OSX, then OSX has to be really fucking good. There is no way I can think of to really improve Win7. Now I'm going to show some of my favorite improvements here.

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The Zune TTwist Interface by ME

When you turn on the touch based Zune you get a menu similar to the one now. For now these are all in landscape since when its vertical its the same as the original twist interface.  As you can see here when you click music you music pops up split screen style. This way its possible to access your other media without pressing back 20 times and plus its similer to the Zune software.  

 When you touch a song and play it you get the now playing screen which shows the large album art the Zune is acustomed to. On the right and left you have a back, next buttons, and when your playing music a visualiser shows up. I think a customizable ray like whats on the zune software would probably be better.

 So how about when you want to buy new Music or download new podcasts? Well you enter the Zune Mobile Marketplace. As you start out its the same as on the PC, you get to see the top songs recomended to you along with channels and friends. As you slide over you enter the music part. 
As you can see its basically the same as the PC software. You got the Artist of the week along with whatever else they want to fuddle at you, plus it shows top Songs, albums, and new releases. Im not going to show podcasts since its the same deal.

So as Microsoft said, they want to intergrate the Zune with Xbox live more. So why not allow the Zune to access the Xbox Live Marketplace to download Demos and Videos to you Xbox 360 from anywhere in the world.

 As you can see we have the Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage DLC. You can choose to download it to your Xbox 360, watch a trailer of it right there, or view screen shots right from the device. I think this would be a very smart way to intergrate the Xbox 360 and the Zune device. Along with the marketplace you can go to social on the main Zune screen and view your friends in the Social along with your Xbox Live friends.

   
Here you can see who is on. You can change between only online or all. It shows what game there playing and what there status is. When you click there name, lets say biggles then you see this screen. 
 This screen allows you to see there Avatar, gamerscore, what there playing, and you can send them a message. 

This TTwist interface which stands for Touch Twist, allows you to nearly have the full Xbox and Zune experience anywhere you go. Right in the palm of your hand.