• 11Dec 09

  ODST Review-Alan Wake?

  Wow, I haven't posted a blog in a long while. In fact, i've been very caught up in schoolwork...and recently, Modern Warfare 2, which I'll be having a review up soon. Obviousley im am little late to the MW:2 blog hype bandwagon. The huge burst of game releases has passed, and heres my review for ODST:

  8.0

  This game was great, except for the fact that none of my friends played it. I bought it, thought i was awesome at first, beat the campaign, then looked online to my buddies to play Firefight. Apparantly to everyone else, ODST is a waste of money, and I had no one else to play with. So I sold it to fund Assassin's Creed 2, which I will also be writing a review on.

  

  In other news, there has been a game that has recently just piqued my interest. Its called Alan Wake. It talks about a writer who goes on a vacation with his wife, only to find that she has disappeared. Then, a thriller he never even remembers writing comes true before his own eyes. This game has been in development for a long time, and was announced several years before. I remember seeing it in an old xbox magazine, and was amazed at the graphics. They are still amazing now, and the game plays out as an action-horror game. While i've never been a fan of horror games, theres something about this, the intensity, the suspense, that caught my interest. I'll be looking forward to this, as i'm sure it will be a truly unique experience.

  Heres a trailer for Alan Wake.It plays out like one for a movie.

  • Posted Dec 11, 2009 11:57 pm PT
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• 12Jun 09

  E3 2009, November=Lots of Releases!, Sims 3 Review

  Finally, E3 is back...its been a while. I remember back, in the clamoring mess of E3, when it used to be the biggest gaming event of the year. But until recently, things have died down thanks to the the number of cuts to size. But 2009 marked the year of the announcement of a bunch of new releases, many of which I am looking forward to. The interesting thing is, they all seem to be coming out in November. The game I was set most onto ever since its announcement has been Modern Warfare 2. I swear, no game has been able to surpass the fun and gameplay of COD4's online mode...me and my friends have been playing it for the last two years. Gears of War 2 was also great, but I hated a lot of the changes they've made to the game since I got my Xbox back from RROD.

  Aside from Modern Warfare 2, there have been a number of huge games i'm looking forward to, like Assasins Creed 2, Bioshock 2, and Left 4 Dead 2 (the box art is kinda sad, instead of a hand holding up 4 its 2? What is this a downgrade?) . And they all come out in November of this year. Four #2 sequals that I would like to have, but unfortunatley, i'm probobaly going to pick up MW2, then see how the other ones turnout. MW2 is a must...What saddens me is how these game are all coming out during the beginning the start of the school year. Summer would've been much better. I have absolutley nothing to do in these coming months.

  Besides that, another announcement that surely made me happy was Halo: Reach. I used to be a big time Halo fanboy and still kinda am, but the excitement for Halo 3 has died down for now. I'm not sure if any of you have read the Halo books, but I touched up on the Fall of Reach a loong time ago. Thats when a Halo game about Reach dawned on me. I'm sure it will be a great game, something that i'm very much looking forward too. Now, they just have to make an HD Halo 1 with online.

  I've also just picked up Sims 3 AND just moved. Its a pretty great game, and i've written a review here if you want to see it.

  • Posted Jun 12, 2009 12:22 pm PT
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• 18Apr 09

  My E74 RRoD covered, sezure again, other stuff

  Recently, I posted about how I had a horrible incident and went to the hospital, but before that, my xbox also red ringed. As you may have noticed, this has not been a good few weeks for me. Because of my seizure, my parents have decided to blame it on video games, and are doing their best to limit my playing times, which has been horrible for me. They nurture me as if I am a baby or an injured boy, even though I really am doing fine. The docter has given me a pill because, well, I had a second seizure 2 weeks after my first one. It's getting serious now, so I really need to be careful. Thats right, two seizures in 3 weeks...but, recently, I had my EEG test, which scans my head to see what the problem is. The results are coming monday, and I also get a excuse to skip school

  As many of you may have thought of, exactly what are my parents me limiting me of, when I dont even have my xbox? Its that game again: World of Warcraft. The thing is, I used to play last summer, but I only played to make sure it wouldn't get in the way of my schoolwork. Now, i'm just bored on the weekends and decided to play a little wow to entertain myself. Really, its not that addicting, I play as much as I would play another other one of my xbox games.

  Another thing is, I still havent ordered to fix my xbox because my parents refuse to allow me. Even though it takes about 2 weeks+ to fix, they want to wait until my tests results come back, so I hope that its ok. My red ring is not the usual three rings error, its comething called "E74" which xbox has been evil enough to not extend the warranty, making you pay $100 to fix it. Seeing the price tag a couple of weeks ago, I even thought of breaking open my xbox to try and fix it (I saw some videos online, pretty complicated), but breaking it open also ends ur warranty, and microsoft will refuse to fix it altogether. They are pretty tricky; I remember going to their website, picking the "E74" error and seeing that the amount was still "$0", I continued to fill out my personal information, only to find the final amount to be a hundred bucks. Sad.

  Well, as you guys may have heard, the E74 error has been now covered! In fact, even if I did it months before, they would still refund my money. But, this has still not helped to persuade my parents to give me their credit card, so I am still stuck playing world of warcraft...which hey, is still pretty fun

  • Posted Apr 18, 2009 10:06 am PT
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