Microsoft's E3 Press Conference

Well one down 2 to go and I must say I'm not that impressed. Really it was more of the same Gears was there some Fable 2 a failed Xbox nothing real surprising. No real game announcements besides Portal 2 coming to XBLA and the known about Lips. It seems there really going to go head to head against the Wii with there new family/party games. I did to my surprise like Lips (Karaoke) and the Scene it did look cool especially with the new Avatars. Out of the video with Fable 2 I don't see why there is hype for this game really at all and when they cut Resident Evil 5 short for it, I got kinda mad especially when Peter Molyneux basically wasted everyone's time just saying it was done and that you can get drunk with your friend in co-op oh great must have feature right there you dumb fuck mook! Another thig that kinda made me mad is the fact they copied Sony's E3 press conference from last year but made it more boring, basically take Sony's Press conference replace Home with Avatars and Lips with Sing Star and add some hardware failures you get Microsoft's E3 2008 Press Conference. They even copied off the "There is one more thing" that Sony did with Killzone 2! Couple more things the redesigned dashboard looks goofy and more confusing I hope it's not as bad as it looks and I'm glad when Billy G stepped down from Microsoft he made one last contribution from his check book. **Update** Obviously not a big enough contribution since SquareEnix said they will get to the Xbox 360 when the PS3 one is done.

Look Some Games

2008 is turning out to be even better than 2007 gaming wise and these are the games I'am most looking forward to.
*** Games added after E3 are in a blueish color
*** Exclusives are in red

Xbox 360

Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise
Tom Clancy's Endwar**
Too Human
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
Gears of War 2
Left 4 Dead
Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway**
Lips
Fallout 3**
Scene It: Box office Smash
Portal: Still Alive
Banjo and Kazooie
Resident Evil 5 **
Farcry 2**
Tom Clancy's Hawx**
Geometry Wars 2

Playstation 3
Resistance 2
Socom Confrontation
Wipeout: HD
Siren: Blood Curse
Ratchet and Clank: The Quest for Booty
Tom Clancy's Endwar**
Little Big Planet
Call of Duty: World at War
The Last Guy
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Pixel Junk: Eden
Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway**
Mirrors Edge
Fl0wer
Resident Evil 5**
Fallout 3**
Farcry 2**
Tom Clancy's Hawx**
God of War 3
M.A.G.

E3 2008! I Can Only Hope..

Well on Monday, E3 2008 begins with Microsoft's Press Conference. As I was watching Resident Evil Apocalypse I started think on what I would really like to see from the big three. So here is what I think all 3 companies should do to be the best they possibly can and how to put a damper on there rivals plans.



First up Microsoft Since there Press Conference is the first I feel I should start with them.

First: They need to announce a price drop! Everyone knows one is coming Sunday to the Premium version, but that isn't good enough. They need to lower the Price of the Elite to $400, keep the Premium at $349 but include a 60GB or 80GB hard drive, finally keep the Arcade at $279 but include a 20GB hard drive. They need to faze out hard drive less 360s.

Second: They need to re-design the Dashboard. Until you use the XMB you will never realize how clunky the blades are.

Third: Drop the price of Xbox Live to $30! With the PS3 really catching up in terms of performance and subscribers ( PSN=9million Xbox Live=12 million) they need to pull away. Plus stop nickle and diming the consumer. $2 for a theme or gamer pictures is ridicules especially since there is no preview!

Fourth: I cant express this enough GAMES! GAMES! AND MORE GAMES! Not this crap they pulled last year where they had like 5 exclusives all year and that's counting the Xbox and PC games (Bioshock and Masseffect). Plus with Bioware going to EA and Bioshock not being exclusive there hurting for games and the stuff Rare has been pumping out isn't going to cut it!

Fifth: FIX your damn HARDWARE!! Well that's all I have to say about that.

Sixth: Have Zune tie into Xbox Live and bring out the games. Plus announce the Zune will work with the videos you have downloaded on your Xbox

Final Thoughts: Don't introduce a motion controller! You guys brought out the camera and there is one game that uses it. So don't screw your self releasing a motion controller that will only be used in 2 games. Also don't copy shoddy features from competitors. Your supposed to be the leader and introduce new things everyone wants to copy.


Next Up the Big "N"
Well here is Nintendo a Company that sells a ass load of hardware each month, what more can you want? I think I have an idea..

First: Some FUCKING GAMES! They need to reveal what ever Retro is working on and bring out Animal Crossing. They need some new IPs! Mario Party 85 better not be shown or announced, if anything say your canceling it! Thats what I would want to hear. If there going to bring out some more old IPs they need to be Pikman and Luigies Mansion, two games that would work great with the Wii mote. Also wouldn't be surprised to see a new Wario Land game.

Second: A Price Drop to everything. There making Pure profit on the Wii and DS and its time to spread it with the consumers, bring the Wii to $200 and the DS to $100! They will FLY off of the shelves at such a crazy rate it wouldn't be funny. Also drop the price of first party games at least $10. I mean "New Super Mario Bros." has been $34 for 2 years! Come on guys its not Halo your just hurting your self.

Third: Pimp out the Online a bit. On the Wii atleast add a real friends list and voice chat. The Wii has built in bluetooth there isn't a reason they cant have you be able to hook up a headset.

Fourth: If the DS price drop doesn't happen bring out a new DS same price with some form of Multimedia features and maybe internal storage for downloadable games from the Wii. Also make it Aluminum so I can chuck it at someone and it will be ok. Plus to everyone that thinks there going to drop the GBA slot, its not going to happen.

Final Thoughts: Stop nickle and diming the consumer! 90 year old shit games shouldn't be $10. Plus the web browser for $5 isn't that good. For five bones I expect it to have up to date flash plug-ins.


At last Sony2008 is supposed to be the year of the Playstation 3 and so far it has. With Huge games and cool applications Sony has really stepped up there game. With firmware 2.4 out, Sony has addressed the Playstation 3's two weak points against the Xbox 360 ( Trophies and Cross game Messaging). Sony did a good job at bringing the Playstaion 3 back from an almost imminant death, but there still not perfect.

First: Sony needs to announce that all of there games are on track and there will not be many (any) more delays. Thus ending the Delaystation era.

Second: Update us on Home! Show us more of its features in better depth. Tell us Home is on track for fall release and there won't be another delay.

Third: I understand the PS3 has some RAM constrictions but bring in private chat during a game and make the In game XMB load faster or get rid of all of the icons! If I cant look at pictures in game why let me see them! The same goes for everything else get rid of the useless icons it would make it load faster and use less memory.

Fourth: Show us more Life with Playstation Stuff and possibly a release date hopefully soon!

Fifth: Add more PS3 to PSP functionality! This truly is Sony's secret weapon against everyone else! Let me stream DVDs or let me copy Videos, games, and pictures through remoteplay to my PSPs memorystick. Also let me use my PSP as a remote to controle Videos also if you could let us use our PSPs to view the XMB while were in a PS3 game.

Sixth: Announce PSP2! If not fix the current PSP announce firmware 5.0 thus pretty much skip 4.0, and add more functionality as in Divx and DLNA support, update the flash player in the web browser if the Mylo can do it so can PSP and at last tie PSP with the PSN let me see my friends and messages on my PSP.

Seventh: Announce that the video store is ready and will launch with TV shows and Movies that you can buy or rent and have a choice of SD or HD and allow us to veiw/copy them on PSP. Oh yea have it come out at the end of the month!

Eighth: If Microsoft and Nintendo do a price drop you have to follow suit. Plus it will really boost your sales!!

Final Thoughts: Don't bring a new controller unless it's the boomerang (I want something new) and stick to your promises!

A New Shade

At 1:00 July 9, 2008 I sent my Xbox 360 in for repair. The lady said 4-6 weeks until I would get it back. So the final count down (up?) begins hopefully its the last count down! As you can see on the right I put a counter to see exactly how long. So the wait begins!

What a Pretty Shade

You should be able to tell what that is but, if you've never seen a RROD expressed through stained glass well there you go. Today I fired up my Xbox to play some Bioshock it flashed a pretty blue screen at me I guess that shows it has something in common with Windows then I shut it off and then I could see the light. This will be the second time Im sending in my Xbox 360 first was because of the DVD drive. Well Xbox I tried to play with you but with the controlers battery not holding charge you not liking my gamesaves it just wasnt meant to be.

The Whores are Abound

So with Sony introducing Trophies I see it going the same way as Achievements, as in people wanting to cheat or do something they would never EVER do just to get those points or trophy. Now I've decided to write this article because I was on a website talking about Firmware 2.40 and this guy was righting comments saying how Trophies are dumb and so are Achievements. While I would not say there dumb but, I will say the have ruined gaming all together. So as this guy was going on and on I looked at his Gamercard (this was on a blogger and if you click there name it takes you to there blog) and for someone to say they don't matter and have a 50,000 Gamerscore, it got me really mad to say the least. Now in the picture to the right is basically his Gamercard with a few things changed but, what isn't changed is the games he has played. Looking at his games played he had 1000/1000 out of about 8 games he has played 6 of them are: CSI, Lost the game, Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean, TMNT. If your aware those are the easiest games to get 1000/1000 on, that really you wouldn't play. So this got me thinking about Achievements and Trophies its all bullshit. I say the only way you should get Achievements and Trophies are by going one time through doing what you would normally do. Not shoot 50 birds or something stupid like that, what you would of done before Achievements, would of been to go from point A to point B and finish the game best you can and that is basically how I have been playing it! I don't search for documents I dont want to have to camp to stay alive for 30 seconds in multiplayer to get 10 Achievement points my teammates need me. I say if your running around getting involved and you happen to stay alive I say more power to you! Now with people using sites like xbox360achievements.org, ps3trophies.org, and sites like Gamefaqs or gametrailers to figure out where or how to do something and that takes the skill out of being a true gamer. I used 1 of those sites since the 360 launched and that was gametrailers, I used it to see how to beat a boss in Ninja Gaiden Sigma and I still feel guilty for doing it, but what it showed was I was doing the right thing just had to do it faster. So I wrote this article to express my anger toward how Achievements and Trophies really are ruining games and gamers today. I didn't write this to be directed toward any particular person it is directed toward the community as a whole. I started to noticed my self doing things I wouldn't normally do and it kinda bugs me. I would say they are a good idea if every single Achievement and Trophy was received with out cheating of some sort. I consider sites that tell you what to do, how to do, and where to look CHEATING! You shouldn't go buy Avatar the Last Airbender unless your a fan or liked it and by the reveiws not many liked it. So I guess that's it I've been pretty mad about this for awhile but with the introduction of Trophies and to see it going the same way I just had to express my anger somewhere and good thing I have a Blog :-) But anywho keep it fair out there and see you online!

Metal Gear Solid 4 [REVIEW]

As I said the other day I beat Metal Gear Solid 4 and it was awesome! This is what videogames are all about, Metal Gear is really the first game I have ever played that is a movie that you play. With INCREDIBLE graphics and very crisp, clean sounding Dolby Digital it is total mmersion. Really I would of beat this game about 3-4 days earlier but since my neighbor is such a bitch (basically if I could hear it past 9:00 so could she) I only played this game during the day. I wouldn't settle for any thing less than 18 on the old surround sound system. At night about 10 is the max before the neighbor goes apeshit and try's to kill me. So any who here is the promised review!

So in Metal Gear Solid 4 you play as Solid Snake who has aged into Old Snake. MGS4 takes place 5 years after MGS2, and war has changed. Not in the way of shooting everything that moves but the way everyone works together, everyone now has Nano Machines flowing through there veins. These Nano Machines boost your senses, improve your reaction time, and reduce pain. Thus creating perfect soldiers. I'm not going to say much more because I dont want to ruin the excellent story. Also if you have never played a Metal Gear game or never payed attention to the story you will most likely not like this game. This game has cut-scenes and lots of them. Honestly probably every half hour you get atleast a 10 minute cut-scene. The rumors of this game having 90 minute cut-scenes is bogus, the longest cut-scene was around the 40-50 minute range and that was the last one, so once your about to beat it go make some pop corn or make a sandwich and enjoy the show. When playing for 3 hours you will most likely see 90 minutes of cut-scenes all together, but like I said if your a fan of Metal Gear then you'll enjoy them especially since the Kojima sense of humor is still intact. Just to give you a last clue on the cut-scenes in the end it said I played 18 hours which is a good lenghty game about twice as long as most games are these days, I would say maybe 4-6 hours is cut-scenes. Now for the Boss's the Metal Gear series has been known for the crazy boss battles and why'll there still here there isn't many of them and pretty much all of them are straight forward. As you can probably tell one is like Prey Mantis whome was the greatest boss ever in any game. Just so you know to defeat this boss you dont need any additional hardware and you dont need to change the controller port and if you do change it Otocon will laugh at you telling you your stupid for thinking that trick will work twice! Now for the graphics they are the best you will see in any game as off right now and near future. The game has a native resolution of 720p but supports 480i, 480p, 1080i, and 1080p. The game supports Dolby Digital which is very clean and crisp sounding. I would of liked to see some form of 7.1 sourround sound or atleast Dolby DTS, but since they say they filled up a Dual layer Blu-ray disc this wasn't possible. The game looks good with NO POP IN (WOOOOOOO), also it has very I mean very minimal jaggies on that note the chracter models are the best I have EVER seen there extremely realistic, also since they didn't use the Unreal Engine nothing is shiny that shouldnt be (no shiny sand here)! If you like Metal Gear and have played all of them (Story goes back to MG on NES) you will see Metal Gear Solid 4 ties up the story very well even though I feel it leaves one question unanswered which is brought up in MGS 4. Also the game includes Metal Gear Online which is basically MGS Portable Ops for PSP but with the new engine and more stuff, the Online is hard to get into because it uses Konami IDs which suck BALLS! You have to make two names a Konami ID and a Game ID the two cannont be the same and the Game ID's password can only be Numbers. I dont know who thought of that but they need to be dead ASAP! Really there is no reason to not own this game even if you never played Metal Gear before it will still be enjoyable. If you have played them before and liked them you need to pick this masterpiece up!
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Metal Gear Solid 4 has been Won!

Yesterday around 7:00pm I beat Metal Gear. It was a fantastic game! The game looked as good if not better than the trailers and No none of the cut-scenes were 90 minutes long. The longest cut-scene was at the end which was around the 40 minute mark. I really enjoyed this game probably the best I have ever played! Expect a review soon!
Ps.... Don't count on that MGS Remake :-(

1,000 Strong

I just recently passed the 1,000 songs played on my Zune. This happened in a month and a half. If you think about it thats a long time just listening to music on average a song is 4min is that is 4,680 minutes or 78 hours of music. That is more time than: total hours played in Call of duty 4, 936 Horse Races, its enough time to cook 15.6, 24lbs. turkeys, if I listened to all of my music again Metal Gear Solid 4 would be out. As you can see thats a lot of time and it was a fine experience with my Zune. Also during this time I got 3 Badges which are like Achievements, 2 Badges are for being a Bronze Artist Power listener (50 songs from Artist) and the other one is a Bronze Album Power Listener (50 songs from same album). The two artists are Lil John and the Eastside Boyz and Nelly, the album is Nellyville. So far I really like my Zune and would recommend it to anyone looking for a MP3 player, I love the Social aspect where you get to see what your friends have been listening to and if you have a Zune Pass it even downloads there top 10 most played songs for you. With the inclusion of T.V. show downloads the Zune is starting to be a real iPod competitor.

Haze Has Been Won

At 3:20 today I beat Haze. Haze is a Playstation 3 exclusive that hasn't really had any good reviews, and after playing it I can't really see why it would get a 6/10. I'll admit that it's no 10 or even a 9 but its definitely not a 6. For the first 25% of the game you play as a soldier for the Mantel corporation. Mantel is a company that is into the cutting edge, they have the very best everything, the best guns, best vehicles, and best soldiers! You'll agree once you play it. For the other 75% of the game you are in a anti-Mantel group called The Promise Hand whom thinks Mantel is up to no good and wants to stop them. I'm not going to talk much about the story since its easy to spoil and I don't want to ruin it for you, but I will say its very interesting and I think it symbolizes the war in Iraq, like I said I won't ruin it for you but theres a tidbit for ya. Now lets get to the game. Starting with controls it has your pretty basic shooting controls like R1 to shoot, L1 to throw grenade, X to jump, O to change weapons, square is your action button, and triangle reloads, R2 hits and L2 depends if your a Mantel soldier (Use Nector) and if your a Promise Soldier its to play dead. The actual game is very slow paced think Rainbow Six and is some what a tactical game, there is no run button or cover button. The game is also very smooth running at a solid 30fps and is presented in 720p only, the game has minimal jaggies and very little pop in. This is achieved with a 5GB mandatory install which sucks! but is worth it. The sound is very well done presented in Dolby DTS which is a less compressed version of Dolby Digital and sounds great. I haven't tried the multiplayer yet but it supports voice chat and the 4 player co-op is really smooth think Burnout Paradise. The game does have its flaws. I think this game takes the cake for the DUMBEST A.I. teammates EVER. They will either just shoot the guy 3 or 4 times not killing him or just run past him completely, sometimes they even run with the enemy. The game also has very bad gun damage it takes 10 shots sometimes it takes 30 shots just to kill one guy, granted I was playing in hard. Also the vehicles handle like balls basically if you hold left your car will immediately turn completely sideways no matter how fast your going also they make noise that makes them seem like there going a lot faster but it looks like your going 15mph. Also I have never been killed by a vehicle so much, sometimes the vehicle wasn't even moving, sometimes the enemy will be coming at you try to ram you and miss but yet you still die. Check the more detailed list in the post below. Haze is a good game but could of been much better. It shows they rushed it and if they make a second one it will be much better. Really the thing that threw me over the edge in not giving this game a 9 is the teammates say the same damn thing over and over again similar to this song.




As you can see this guy got sick of it and shot him self in the eye, good move buddy. Haze is a great game and is a refreshing experience. I say wait till its $40 and then it will be a must have but if your looking for a game to fill the void between now and the 12th its not to bad of an idea to pick this one up since its only around the 8 hour mark.
8.0

Haze mini Preview

There isn't any pictures because im on my psp. So while im waiting for it to install I wanted to give a heads up I got it and to expect a review.

Update #1
Really liking Haze the game is a lot of fun and looks good I would say its about on par with Halo 3 and some stuff looks better in Haze like the water effects when it rains. Right now I'm playing the game on Hard with the crosshair on minimal and Aim Assist off so, basically you cant get any harder than what I'm playing it on. On the bad side: the AI in this game could quite possibly be the dumbest I've ever seen people will just walk with each other, some will shoot the guy 3 or 4 times and walk by, and when you play dead there is usually a guy right in front of you and most of the time he is still there and alive when you get up. Also the dialog is bad for the most part , its really cheesy and repetitive . You can really tell this is going to make its way to the Xbox since they don't make use of a Blu-ray disc and reuse a lot of stuff. Like if I have to hear "I'm a "G" you know me" or "Remember your promise to Marino" one more time I might snap its honestly every 3min. One last thing the game is extremely scripted like at one point in the game when you work for Mantel something happens and you get a Nector disruption and if you look at your guys you shoot them and if you don't look at them of shoot them they will just die for no reason. Also when you get a Nector disruption it lasts until you get to a certain point as in if you go back or something to get ammo it will still be going and it will go on forever until you get to a certain place and when your in a car and go off of a ramp it makes this noise like your in the Dukes of Hazzard. Last thing bullet damage is wonky sometimes you will kill someone with 5 bullets and sometimes it will take a clip or even more, also it has the Doom 3 effect where a single knife will kill someone but it will take 4 wacks or 10-30 bullets.

Resident Evil 4 Has been Won!! (Reveiw)

Resident Evil 4 was arguably the best game on the Gamecube. Later it was ported to the PS2 with more content but the graphics suffered on the weaker system. So when you combine the Graphics from the Gamecube with the extra content from the PS2 + waggle you get the supreme Wii version. Three years ago I played the hell out of the Gamecube version, I got all the way to Krauser, which if you played you know that thats really close to the end and trust me I feel stupid for waiting to buy it (I rented it) and complete this epic adventure. So here is my reveiw.

You play as Leon S. Kennedy (Here^) and you mission is to save the Presidents daughter: Ashley. When Leon gets there and he finds out that there is a bigger problem going on. The game has a Spanish heritage and I learned the C' est' sta' means like oh shit we're about to die (my interpretation) also that all of these Zombies have mommy's STDs (If you played the game that would be a funny). The game uses the Wii abilities better than Mario Galaxy and most other Wii games. With the new waggle features it actually feels like your doing something, like during the game you have to do some button/waggle combinations to either dodge out of the way, jump at the right moment, or beat ass away from a monster. During your first encounter with Krauser you get in a fight where you do a side swipe to do a barrel roll out of the way, which is really bad ass. The graphics hold up well and are presented in 480p and widescreen. The Gamecube was only 480p and the PS2 was both widescreen and 480p. Every thing is presented in great detail and the thing that seems to of got out of hand with Xbox 360 and PS3 is texture pop in there is absolutely NONE and I love that, I rather a game look like this with good anti-aliasing and no texture pop in than a game that is so real that the system cant even load the level fast enough. The sound is encoded in Pro Logic II which actually rivals some PS3/360 games. RE4 is quite long at around 17 hours, taking your time but still going swiftly. There is many Bad-Ass moments in the game and I think this is the best so check this video. **Caution**Spoiler Alert**
So if you need a good game to play and like blood and swearing in Spanish then Resident Evil 4 is for you. If you have a PS2, Gamecube,or Wii you need this game. I personally would play this over GTAIV any day. The game is cheap $30 for Wii and I'm sure cheaper if you can find it for PS2 and Gamecube. Also a few things this game doen't support the Zapper or Gamecube controller. The game does support the Classic controller but I'm not sure how that works I guess it would be basically the Gamecube version. Also the game is in widescreen no matter what, as in if you playing on a 4:3 t.v. you'll see the black bars on the top and bottom and if you have the Wii set to widescreen and your t.v. supports it, it will be in full screen with no black bars (anamorphic widescreen). One last thing if you see a guy with a Chainsaw you either better start screaming C' est' sta' or pull out the trusty magnum. So don't be a stranger go out and buy it!
10 Strangers out of 10

Excuse Me Ma'am are You Under The Influence?

It was a dark, gloomy, rainy day when I went to the store. I immediately went over to the electronics department, I looked to see what goods they had and nothing to special popped out at me. I went over to the discount section to see what cheapo games they had, and there it was in all of its glory in its blue covered case. I said there is no way this is under $40. I went over to the cashier of whom was a scruffy young fellow who said " Wutda Buyin?" I asked him how much it was and he said "we got good things on sale today stranger" and this is not one of them. "I bought it at a high price". I went home excited to RElive this game 4 a few minutes. I dimmed the lights shut the curtains and fired up my Wii. The game was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I don't remember much of this game since the last time I played it was 3 years ago. I ran past many merchants that appear to be selling purple bandannas and a how-to on how to make fire blue. Then there was this women who kept on knifing me in the face, so I shot her assuming she was a hooker under the influence. She kept getting up wanting more so I shot her in the face 4 more times and her head came off. A little disturbed I ran past and figured that Mexican hooker had the aids. This was my experience with Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition.


This is my second game for the Wii. It was only $29 which is defiantly not a high price. The Wii controls work pretty well but not as good as I would of liked. You have to press the B button which is the trigger and then aim with the Wii-mote. The main problem is you have to move the camera with the analogue stick while in the aim view . The other problem which isn't to bad is that you wiggle the Wii-mote to do a knife swipe. If you move the target to fast Leon breaks out into a Michael Myers knife swipe dance. Overall the game is the same great Gamecube classic that we all know and love with all of the PS2's extras. Ill do a full review when I beat it. In a little while .

Birthday Present Round Up

GIFT #1:
Thursday I got Gran Turismo 5: Prologue which kicked off the Birthday fiasco. GT 5 is a great game and
was most defiantly worth the $40 for the download. If you need a great game that will show off your HDTV and you have a PS3 defiantly check this one out!


Gift #2:
Saturday I went to target to get a Zune 80 but they were out, so I bought a Zune 8GB saved me $100. I guess it was supposed to be this way since I got about 4 gifts I wouldn't of got if I didn't save that $100. So far I love my Zune and dont regret getting it at all!

Gift #3:
The same day I got the Zune I shot over to Game Crazy and grabbed a Dual Shock 3. I was hoping they didnt run out and it turns out they had a whole wall of them so I got one. The controller feels much more stable with the added heft, but really if there is nothing wrong with your Sixaxis I wouldn't pick this one up.

Gift #4:
After owning the Zune for a week I decided to get a dock to really take advantage of wireless sync. The dock has video out but the Zune 8GB doesnt support it so I cant use that but I can have the music go through my t.v. The dock also charges and looks rather good too, from the pictures I've seen it looks like a big black dull brick but actually its shiny and goes with the Zune very nicely.



Gift #5:
While I was getting the dock I seen they had Bioshock for $40. So I picked up this masterpiece $20 off the launch price. Bioshock is a excellent game and I guess during the holiday mix I just skipped over this one. Defiantly worth $40 and if you skipped over it like I did then go pick this up especially at the $40 price tag.


Gift #6:

Saving the big gift for last. I seen on Nintendo Wii Fanboy that Toys R' Us got a ass load of Wiis, so I called and they said they were taking pre orders for the Wii Golden Ticket Event which is a bit over doing it if you ask me. I went up there placed 2 bones on it and got the golden ticket. I was going to skip out of there waving it in the air but either I was going to scar little children or get stabbed and get my golden ticket janked. Today picked it up as well as Mario Galaxy and found the tax on it to be really high I gave the guy $115 and got $1 back, in-case you cant tell thats $315! I get $1 back what kind of stuff is that? So $14 in tax seems rather high but what ever. The Wii-mote is very comfortable to hold the nunchuck on the other hand hurts my middle finger when I hold it for more than a hour. Other than that the system is very solid and I hope it was worth the $250 and from Mario Galaxy I think the Wii has great potential. The graphics are great for being two Gamcubes stuck together, they look like ass on my HDTV in 480i but on the non high definition 56" Sony they look great! Here eventually I hope to get the component cables. Soon I'll do a review on the Wii so check back in the next few days.


So thats it! it was a great Birthday to me and I'm very satisfied with all of my gifts!

Gotta Pick Up Some Wiid

Today I pre-purchased a Wii from Toys R' Us and they gave me a Golden Ticket, how cute. I had to put 2 bones down on it and ill put another $50 down and get Mario Galaxy. Then the following week hopefully Mario Kart, Smash Bros, or No More Heros. I'm excited about it and hopefully it will get used more than my GameCube which actually got used a lot. So ill tell you all what I think tomorrow after I play it for a bit.

Welcomed To The Social

So in Target the other day I picked up a Zune 8gb black. I was going to get the 80gb but they ran out and I thought to my self do I really need 80gb? I have under 1GB of music so I don't think I need 72 more gigabytes plus I save almost $100. The Zune 8gb comes in 4 colors: red, black, green, and pink. I got black and it looks very nice but you can see smuges from your fingers on it but the plastic is very durable and scratch resistant. The screen is made out of glass and looks very nice its 1.8" and is the same QVGA resolution of the Zune 80, so the screen is extremely crisp. The back is made of some form of metal which doesn't scratch and is very smooth. From the pictures I seen it seemed that it was rough kind of metal. The Zune 8gb has every thing the iPods have plus it is more durable and has wi-fi built in which allows you to share pictures and music with other nearby Zune owners. It also allows for something called wireless sync which transfers your music, podcasts, pictures, and movies over your network either when you start charging it or you decide to do it. The battery takes a massive hit when its syncing like that, On another note I like that you can change the wallpaper and the Zune pad is very nice very smooth. The bttom line is if you need a solid player thats not to big but has all of the functionality of a big player then the Zune 8gb is your guy!
9.6

Got the Shakes

On Saturday I went a bought the Dual Shock 3. There isn't really much to say, it's basically a Dual Shock 2 but its wireless and has the Sixaxis built in. The controller feels much more hefty and better built than the Sixaxis . Rumble is a great thing to have back on the Playstation and I'm even considering playing Uncharted and Heavenly Sword again to experience the rumble. Another thing many might not know but the original Sixaxis is partially see through which I thought was cool and is now gone in the Dualshock. I don't really think its worth $54 but my Sixaxis was starting to mess up so might as well get a new one with rumble. If your Sixaxis is in good shape I would not pick this up until at least Metal Gear or just wait till the holidays . Other than that its the same great controller with more shakes . Also the Sixaxis had this problem where it would get stuck and keep doing what ever button you were pressing, I haven't experienced this yet and I've played GT for about 10 hours with it and it hasn't happened so hopefully they fixed that problem.

The Drive of My Life

On Friday I downloaded Gran Turismo 5: Prologue and it's awesome! The download weighs in at about 2200MB and with the opening video its around 2500MB. I'm not really sure why the disc version requires such a install but it provides nearly a load less experience. The game features about 60 cars and 6 tracks each track a 1 variant like one turns Daytona into a road course, so basically 12 tracks that you can play on . The graphics are about on par with the videos theres a some aliasing problems going on which hopefully will be worked out before GT5. The online play is smooth for the most part and any car you unlock or buy in the single player you can play online. Online theres classes Beginner, Intermediate, Expert, and Pro. You have instant access to Beginner but have to unlock the others as you progress through the single player: C, B, and A class. The game is really worth $40 however you buy it, but I don't recommend that you buy it if your not going to play online, today I pretty much went thought the single player in one sitting. If your a fan of these types of games then its a must buy, if your not sure download GT HD off the PS Store.

Theres a Problem here..... eg WTF people

There is a HUGE problem going on in the gaming biz. Today Next-Gen compiled a list of the top selling games of the last 12 months. There is many shockers in this list and shows people need to be shot. With not one PSP exclusive game in the top 100 thanks to those bastards who illegally download games also no PC games either. Mainly the real shocker is some of the other high profile game sales, how about how Mario Party 30 I mean 8 has sold more than every single PS3 game put together or how Transformers: The Game sold more copies than Mass Effect, BioShock, and The Orange Box Combined. This shows that dumb ass bitches should no longer be able to buy games. With A+ games like Uncharted, Burnout Paradise don't even reach a Million copies. Then with High School Musical Complete Gay Saga, out sells the likes of the Orange Box, Metroid Prime 3, Devil May Cry 4, and Dirt. I think the question is WTF people do you not have eyes or ears, or have you just not ever played a good game. I wish I knew what kids would like High School Musical (on the DS yet) over DIRT, Motor Storm or even Singstar.I feel this is a outrage and now see why people keep making movie games and making the same game over and over with 20 new mini-games (Mario Party). This list shows people need a wake-up call, if people keep downloading illegal or buying shitty games there wont be anymore good games, just Mario Party 55 with more waggle and High School Musical complete pink man thong edition is going to be the only successful games and they don't deserve it! So everyone grab a Pepsi MAX and WAKE UP PEOPLE!!

I have Won!! Ninja Gaiden DS [Reveiw]

Has it been 4 months already?
Today I beat Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword for the DS. The game was a lot easier and shorter than what I thought it was going to be (9 hours)...but as promised here is my review!

**Review**
Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword is my favorite DS game by far! The graphics are great the sound is awesome! The first thing you notice when you pop in NG: DS is the graphics, after playing Sigma on the PS3 I would of thought to see little short black things with sticks but I was wrong. The game has really good graphics think Legend of Dragoon . The character models look great and they look just like the characters from the Xbox/Ps3 version. The game play also is very well done, while holding the DS like cards or a book you slash the touch screen with the stylus and look like a jack ass while doing that, but it works great. Since I haven't played my DS to much I didn't have many scratches on the touch screen, well..... now I do! Probably 3-5 more using the stock stylus. Really the only sad thing is the game plays like Super Mario 64 where you go to rooms to play the level. In the beginning some one gets captured from the Black Spider Clan I'll leave the who up to you and eventually you teleport to the shadow realm or something similar to it and try to get the girl back before they kill her. Now basically how the game goes is: you go to a room kill some people and fight a boss. I believe you do this 14 times(?). But the game doesnt get harder as you go, the 4th to last boss is the hardest to beat while the last boss was quite easy, it was practically fighting Alma from the first game. The games story and game play is very good and fun but does NG use all of the DS's many features to help it along its journy? The answer is yes it uses all of them. The Touch Screen is used to fight and to draw the Ninpo symbols. The mic is used to wake up characters and discover little secrets. The wi-fi is used to connect to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and compare your scores with others. Overall the game is great and is a must buy if your a fan of challenging games. This game uses all of the DS's features and uses them well. The game is on the easy side especially for a Ninja Gaiden game, the thing that makes this so easy is when you go to a save station you get health and you Ninpo refilled. If you want a challenge closer to the console version play on Head Ninja which you unlock after beating it on normal. The game is sometimes really frustrating but overall is a great buy and at $34 theres no reason not to get it if you own a DS. This game has shown me what the DS is capable of and shows me the DS can be a great platform for something other than mini games.
9.85