Oh my god ... i thought i only had 2 games left to fulfill my promise of finishing 12 games before i went next gen !

I've just got to the end of vice city storires so thought i was down to my final game .. when shock horror .. i realise ... it's 4 !!

so I'm still left with 3 games to finish.... And i bought another 4 xbox games so really i should add at least 2 more titles to the list !!

That said i've been playing a fair bit of Outrun 2 .. and for £2.50 ( $5 ) i think i've got my moneys worht out of it ... and i've only gone and bought another 3 games on 360 .. so the cycle of buying too many games has started again !!

I'm thinking that a couple of the games i finish from last gen will now be emulated through my 360 so i'm currently looking at finishing

Simpsons Hit & Run

Unreal championship 2

Metal arms : glitch in the system

Second Sight

Psi ops

.... and then still on PS2

Bully ( or C.C.E in the UK )

Okami

at least one God of War game

... i've got to say at this rate i don't think i should be buying a PS3 in 2009 either !!!

So .. new rule .. no PS3 until i finish a least 12 Last gen games !!

Yesterday i bought an HD-DVD drive for my 360

Now i know that the format is dead in the water and that there will be no future releases onto what will surely become for most people a very expensive paperweight. However this is my story and the reason i'm playing vulture to Toshiba's ill fated format.

1> firstly the drive cost me £25 ($50) including 2 films

2> the drive comes with the Xbox Remote control

3> web sites are shifting their HD-dvd disks out the door for £5 ($10)

4> I won't be buying a PS3 until 2009)

5> there is a good selection of high quality films availiable for it ... not to mention Heroes season 1

these three things combined i thought to myself it's such a small price to pay for a little bit of history... or at least it was .. i've gone quite mad and started ordering disks left right and centre and then realising how crazy i'd gone and cancelling half of the orders .... in a matter of clicks i've built up a collection of disk that would quite frankly shame the average Blu-ray owner. so far i've spent about £60 ($120) and amassed a collection of 9 films .. but there are so many more titles i'm tempted to spend money on ... so far i've been quite good and only duplicated films i already own with 2 of my favorite films.

so where do i go from here , there is a part of me that's tempted to buy films that i wouldn't buy if the format wasn't dead (superman returns springs to mind ) and films i already own just so that i can get the 'HD' experience ( like the Matrix trilogy ) however ... i think i will simply settle for a collection of 15 odd films and be thankful that i've bought myself a nice little stop-gap to ease me into the world of HD movies before i buy a PS3 next year

Ok .. i'll admit it ... i broke my promise and with 4 games still left to finish i bought a 360 pro

Now in my defence it was an absolute bargain !!!

all brand new

360 pro , 2 wireless controllers and 4 games for £176 !

( basically the best deal a shop could do with an extra 10% off from the nice people that do my credit card )

add in 2 more games pre-owned for £5 each and i've got a fairly nice setup !! And when i get round to having some MS points i'm going to buy the worlds greatest game ... SWOS.

but .. i'm still determined to finish 4 more last gen games !

and i will do before i play anything of substance on my 360 .. so for a little while .. no mass effect , no bioshock , no GTA4 !

AND ... i'll now have to stick to another agreement i've made that i won't buy more than 1 console in any given year !

so no PS3 for my till 2009 !!

... the big problem for me then is do i really want to buy a Wii in 2010 when i think it looks too dated right here, right now ?

Oh well .. that looks like another promise on shakey ground !!

It's always nice to see a great bundle and this is enough to make your mouth water

360 pro and a copy of GTA 4 for £199.99 from play.com

if they are offering it then others will follow suit ...

add to that the PS3 and GTA IV for £299.99 and you've got a good choice on your hands

Other the next few days it will be nice to see what bundles come up. if you've been waiting to buy next gen now seems as good a time as any !

That's it i'm down to my final 4 games till i buy my PS360 !

Over the last week i finally finished X-men Ledgend 2 ( which involved far too much level grinding .. i got to the end on level 30 out of 60 !! ) and thne i started and finished Black .. both on the PS2 ( my poor xbox hasn't been played in about 5 months ! )

Now Black was just plain rubbish ! sorry , i'm being deliberately harsh on it because it was really pushed by reveiwers here in the UK as a solid 90% game doing something different and exciting witht he FPS .. the burnout of FPS games. Personally except for the graphics which were quite nice this played like a PS1 FPS ... it was just full of design issues that annoyed me .... like not being able to step over anything over 6 inches high ... and not having the ability to jump over either .. it was a cheap way to pin you in while giving you wide open play areas ... in actual fact it's just a series of narrow corodors with see through walls ! i was looking forward to black so it's a shame it turned out that i didn't like it ... Still onwards

I think i've decided what the next 3 of the 4 game are going to be

Okami

Sam & Max season 1

Vice city stories

... the final game will either be mercenaries , Freedom fighters , God of war , Spiderman 3 , Hulk UD , Killer 7 , Psi-ops , Shenmue 2 , Second sight , Republic commando , Metroid Prime , Project snowblind , Driver PL , Kong , sniper elite , Bully , spider-man 3 ..

you know all this does is prove that maybe i need to set mysel a higher target before i start buying games for the PS360 too !!

and that's not even a full list of all the games i've got sitting round waiting to be played !!

Shame on me !! ... Shame !!!

it's been confirmed that GTA4 will be the first game to receive the new '12' rating for videogames in the uk

a BBFC spokesman said today " having seen the trailers for this game we think the teens will love it "