Just imagine you could recruit dozens of spies, field agents, informants, transporters, and various other characters crucial to the spy world, and you could send them off on various intelligence gathering and espionage missions across an entire country. In essence you are your own mini-CIA and you head up everything from managing your "assets" to actually performing field operations. Well that's exactly what you do in Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops. I had no idea that there was this much to the game outside of the levels and story. At first when I was reading the manual and saw all this stuff about managing your men and resources I was like "aw crap its gonna take me half an hour to set everything up before I can even start a mission" but it nearly turned out tobe the exact opposite. I can get to a mission as quickly and clearly as I want and I can completely disregard my assets and resources, however if you did something like that you would be missing out on a whole lot of fun. If you place your men and resources all in good locations before each mission, which only takes like five minutes and is not that tedious, then after you had your fun sneaking around and beating dudes down CQC style you return to the briefing screen to find various reports on the situations in different areas. Spies will give you the scoop on useful intel about the location they are at, which will actually help you quite a bit when the time comes around for you to enter their area. You also receive various other reports about the health of your men, where your resources are and how they are being managed, and howyour prisoners and the rest of your recruits are doing. I have to say reading allthose reports and sending all those men out to do various tasks of espionage, it made me feel like a full-fledged CIA director and leaves me not only with yet another great example of MGS story and game-play but a whole new aspect that puts MGS, once again, heads and shoulders above the rest of the stealth games around. Sniper out.

Yeah a whole lot of stuff happened since I last posted let me bring you up to speed. Ok so I got the PSP, the games were awesome but I didn't get a chance to buy the cables so I didn't get music, movies or pictures on it. I was just about to get them and then I dropped it and the screen broke. Sucked bigtime. Oh and here's theclincher, it happened three days after the warranty expired, awesome. So then I was bummed but not long after that I got a job, so I was happy again because I could finally start my PS3 fund, currently at $200.So now I go to the mall liketwice a week to see if they got any used PSP's in, cause they sell them there for $100 friggin awesome, but they haven't had any when I get there for like three weeks straight, more awesome. Anyways I'm still trying to get another PSP and then get a wireless router for my comp so my online FPS games won't lag. Other than that everything is still pretty much the same, I still wreck in Starcraft daily and have recently discovered the awesomeness of Counter-Strike. That's about everything, Sniper out.

I know I haven't done on of these in a while, however I do plan to geta PSP by the end of this week so hopefully then I will have a full blog up about my first impressions of the system. On that note, I'll see yall later. Peace in the middle-east and in the streets.

   Ok after I reconnected my jaw to my face, I started to think what exactly Playstation Home is. For those of you who have not seen the video yet, go watch it I can't really explain it other than Sony captured every aspect needed in an online community. The only question I have is to how you will be able to connect to games with your friends easily. However it was mentioned in the video and I belive that they have something set up. Honestly the only thing missing now is the game's which will, most likely, happen by the end of the year with several big titles set to release. All in all it looks like Sony has made a masterful advance in the online world of gaming, Microsoft and Nintendo take note.

I love the guy whoever thought of these wonderful little things called trade-ins. A couple of times now I thought I wouldnt be able to get this great game that I really wanted if it wasnt for them. I would go through every possible method: try to look to do things people would pay me for, begging for people for money, or looking for special circumstances that would allow me to get this game. Then when I had finally exhausted all of these options I figured that I would just not get this game for awhile or never, but then I remember TRADE-IN'S! These little things have got me many games that I thought I could never get, or at least for awhile, and have made me a very happy man. In conclusion I hope that the powers that be never get rid of these very useful trade-in's so us gamers can have another, perhaps easier, method to get our games.

      Wassup to whoever the heck is reading this. This would be my first blog and I honestly have no idea as to what to talk about. Anyways I guess you are wondering about my name. Well it is the name of one of the gods in the Lord of the Rings. I kno that sounds nerdy or whatever but I dont feel like changing it. Other than that there's not to much to know about me, Im from Philly [go birds!] and I like FPS's and RTS's. My favorites of those two genres and the ones I play the most online are Battlefield 2 and Starcraft. Well I suppose that's it for this blog, I will try to keep these things comin semi-regularly and most definetly they will be about something and hopefully interesting, because man this one sucked. [ I mean I dont even know what I was thinking, this is pathetic...]