Testing, testing, 1, 2

No trophies yet though. Damn.

The big boss at GE asked that we let people know about job openings at their website. While this is a volunteer site it's very professionally done and they take this whole reviewing issue fairly seriously. In short it's a great springboard if you're looking to get into the industry. So I'm posting a link to their job postings at Game Jobs. If you're interested feel free to apply but only do so if you're serious please.

http://www.jobtarget.com/c/search_results.cfm?max=25&site_id=101&add=internship&filter=GamingExcellence

That out of the way I'm no longer sick, my Xbox is on its way home after harassing Microsoft about it having gone missing from their repair center and my rant is pretty much done. I've just been obsessing over it. I don't want it to sound fanboyish one way or the other nor to be too... malicious. All three companies are worthy of scorn but I don't want it to go from poking fun at their stupid ways to being just downright mean. I save that sort of business for talking about game developers themselves. Oh and that day will come soon, oh yes. Very soon, muwaha!

As soon as I stop obsessing over minor details like the OCD laden spaz I've been lately. Ah well.

My review for Condemned 2: Bloodshot was posted up on Gaming Excellence a bit ago but I've been pretty sick. It can be found here: Condemned 2 Review. On other news my Xbox 360 broke, not the three rings of death mind you, but my fan. You see my roommate is always cold, no matter how hot it is. So I never get to use the AC like I should and must suffer for it. This has led to both my PS3 and 360 having fan issues within less than a month and a half thanks to our heat wave over here. Ugh. Stopped a project I was working on dead in the water which is just wonderful.

Tonight I'm going to work on my write up as to why all three console developers are garbage and after that I've got a rant about Metal Gear coming this way so yay for that!

Okay, I don't normaly ramble about games I'm looking forward to, but seriously... It's Diablo 3! Sequel to one of the greatest game series of all times. Warcraft? Pfft, garbage. Starcraft? Couldn't care less. GTA IV, Halo 3 and MGS 4? *YAWN*

But this....

Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo,Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo,Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo,Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo,Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo, Diablo!!!

This is just a quickie blog post. I'm still working on my rant on the three consoles but I've been busy with some reviews for Gaming Excellence and trying to make some money with freelance work so I've been having a slow go of it. I have managed to complete a review for Viking: Battle for Asgard in the meanwhile. I figured I'd put a new spin on it when reviewing it. Instead of getting hung up on the flying limbs I decided to not mention them and instead focus on the actual gameplay and the deficiencies therein. It's amazing how anyone could score that game higher than a 7/7.5 at best when it more or less just screams "UNFINISHED" at every turn. When you drop the ball on the musical score (as in you don't even really have one) your game is in some really bad shape.

Hopefully my review for Condemned 2 will be finished and posted soon.

Woot! It's level 25. I think this is supposed to be another bad level though. Actually they're all pretty bad at this point so I dunno how much worse this level can possibly be. I wish I had time to write more reviews and blog posts but nooo. Stupid world eating all my time.

I'm also at 18,876 as far as my Gamer Score goes. Considering that I started playing my 360 in January and only 5 months later that's what I have, I'm proud of me. It speaks dangerously of me not having a life but even still - Considering I can't get any of the XBox Live Achievements I think I'm doing pretty good. I really need to sit down and finish off Viva Pinata but that game is rough. It's one of those games where you need several hours devoted to playing it, at a time, or you aren't going to accomplish much.

With that in mind I need to start playing Bioshock and Viking again. Considering how few 360 games have wholly offline achievements (where you can 1000/1000 while offline) I should probably finish those ones off.

I'm currently working on a rant about all three systems so hopefully that blog post will be up soon.